From Skull Tower next I could take the line 3 bus which would pass back thru downtown, north past the river and fortress, past the bus station, to the Logor Concentration Camp

I’d always avoided concentration camps before. Its one thing to know what happened but I don’t think I needed to see it for myself. Today I had lots of time and it was easy to get to



This time on the bus she only charged me 50D ($.60 cents) even though I was going further then when I had come to Medijana. Entrance to the camp was 150D or she said the combo ticket was 200D ($2.40). The combo ticket would have let me into Skull Tower and Mediijana as well as the Archaeological Museum I was going to visit next so I got the combo ticket to save money



The guide took me around the camp. It was actually only one building. It was built before the war as an army depot then used by the Nazis as a camp. Basically it was just a jail so no gas chambers or things that went on in other camps.



The first people arrested were political dissidents and activists, followed by Jews, and others. Men were on the ground floor, women on the second, and solitary confinement on the third. Children upto age 10 could stay with their mother otherwise they were with the general population.



There were no cells, it was just a big holding room with no windows. They would sleep on straw in a neighbouring room. Once a day they were let out for toilet breaks and to walk in the grounds.

The third floor had solitary confinement cells in the attic. These were dark cells and only had some light from a skylight but it probably let rain in as well. In addition there was a barbed wire floor making it difficult to stand or sleep. People could be kept in here for days and both men and women could be in separate solitary confinement cells



There was a prison breakout in Feb 12, 1942. After that more barbed wire was put in on the perimeter. The Germans also built their own housing adjacent with sleeping quarters, bathrooms, and mess hall.



The camp only lasted till 1944 and seemed quite tame compared to what went on in other camps. I then went to the bus station nearby to get my ticket for tomorrow to Novi Pazar. That was a big worry as Novi Pazar is a bit of a blindspot on the internet looking up how to get there or continue on to Kosovo.

Next to the bus station was a big outdoor covered market selling mostly vegetables and some fruit.








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