Five kilometres south‑east of Vukovar lies the Ovčara farm, which in contemporary Croatian history is remembered as the site of the largest atrocity of the War of Independence.
The hangar, which in peacetime served as a store for agricultural machinery, was converted in September 1991 into a detention camp for non‑Serb residents of the city and its surroundings. On 20 November more than 260 Croatian veterans and civilians were brought from the Vukovar hospital to the hangar. Their valuables and personal items were confiscated and they were subjected to beatings and torture. Later that evening they were taken to a nearby field where a pit had been dug; 200 of them were shot and buried without any marker. Today the former hangar site houses the Ovčara Memorial Home, which preserves the memory of the wounded and civilian victims taken from the Vukovar hospital, imprisoned and tortured in the hangar, and subsequently executed and buried.
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