page_title: Vukovar-Syrmia County
section_title: World War II
hierarchical_section_title: Vukovar-Syrmia County / History / World War II
caption_attribution_description: English: Dudik Memorial Park in Vukovar, a place where Ustashe regime killed around 400 Serb civilians and antifascists between 1941 and 1945 .
context_page_description: Vukovar-Syrmia County, Vukovar-Sirmium County or Vukovar-Srijem County is the easternmost Croatian county. It includes the eastern parts of the region of Slavonia and the western parts of the region of Syrmia, as well as the lower Sava river basin, Posavina and Danube river basin Podunavlje. Due to the overlapping definitions of geographic regions, division on Slavonia and Syrmia approximately divides the county vertically into eastern and western half, while division on Posavina and Podunavlje divides it horizontally on northern and southern half.
  The county's seat is in Vukovar, town on the Danube river while its biggest town and economic and transportation center is in Vinkovci, town with 33,328 inhabitants. Vinkovci served as an temporary de facto seat of the county during the Croatian War of Independence with some institutions still remaining in the town as of 2020. In 2011 the entire population of the county was 180,117. Other than Vukovar and Vinkovci, settlements with town status are Ilok, Otok and Županja.
context_section_description: During the World War II the region was a part of the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia. At the time it was a part of Vuka County. The puppet state and Nazi forces conducted criminal policy of Holocaust, Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia and Romani genocide by destruction of Vinkovci Synagogue, devastation of Vukovar Synagogue, Dudik Killings, Ivanci massacre and other crimes in the region. Yugoslav Partisans, Europe's most effective anti-Axis resistance movement, was active at the Fruška Gora mountain and in villages alongside Zagreb–Belgrade railway (today M105 railway). The region was liberated after the Syrmian Front was broken.
caption: Dudik Memorial Park
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