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image by Željko Heimer, 7 June 2007
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The coat of arms is Gules, a ash branch Argent in bend
sinister with a leaf and three acorns. It is canting (jasen
means ash-tree). The flag is blue with the coat of arms offset
towards hoist. Jasenovac is probably the best known worldwide as
a place of the infamous extermination camp that was organised
there in World War II. Adopted: around 1995 (?).
Source: Author's observations on the community building in
Jasenovac, 1996.
Željko Heimer
I posted the image of the flag I saw in 1996 (which I can
safely say is not very precise in artistic details, of course).
In the official gazette now available on-line (<www.glasila.hr>) in the 2001
Statute of the community one can find reference to the decision
that adopted the coat of arms and the flag in 1995. The text of
that decision is not available on line unfortunately:
"Odluka o opisu i uporabi grba i zastave Opcine Jasenovac,
Službeni vjesnik Opcine Jasenovac, br. 8/95. in: Statut
Opcine Jasenovac, 3.10.2001, Službeni vjesnik, br.
20/01."
Željko Heimer, 15 December 2002
Jasenovac is a community in the Sisak-Moslavina county, about
50 km southeast of Sisak, at the confluence of the Una river into
the Sava. It has been heavily destructed in the Serb occupation
in 1990's, but it is probably most well known as a site of the
largest Ustasha-run concentration camp during the WWII.
The decision describing the coat of arms and the flag
"Odluka o opisu i uporabi grba i zastave Opæine
Jasenovac", Službeni vjesnik Opæine Jasenovac, br.
8/95. is refered in the 2001 statutes of the community:
"Statut Opæine Jasenovac", 3.10.2001, Službeni
vjesnik, br. 20/01.
I have seen the flag hoisted at the community building in spring
1996, and I have seen it (and photographed it this time) in
spring 2004.
The coat of arms is Gules, an ash branch argent in bend sinister
with a leaf and three acorns. It is canting the name of the
community since "jasen" means ash-tree. The flag is
blue with the coat of arms offset towards hoist.
Željko Heimer, 2 July 2004
The coat of arms is shown and the flag described at <www.opcina-jasenovac.hr>.
Against my observation of the actual flag hoisted in Jasenovac
some years ago, the description claims that the coat of arms
should be in the canton of the flag. I might have misinterpreted
the half-roled-up flag there... If that is so, then the actual
flag may look something like the above, using the coat of arms
image found at the site.
Željko Heimer, 7 June 2007
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by Željko Heimer, 2 July 2004