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  Goli Otok
Auf Goli Otok, der nackten Insel, wurde früher von Strafgefangenen weißer Kalkstein abgebaut.
Goli Otok (kroatisch: nackte Insel) ist eine kroatische Adria-Insel zwischen der Insel Rab und dem Festland, sie gehört zur Gespanschaft Primorje-Gorski kotar.
Krk: Die Insel Krk ist dank der Lage und der Nähe zu Süddeutschland, Österreich und Oberitalien ein beliebtes Urlaubsziel.
reisewiki.net /kroatien/kvarner/goli-otok.html   (1829 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Goli otok
Goli otok (literal translation: "barren island") is an island off the northern Adriatic coast, located between Rab's northeastern shore and the mainland, in what is today Republic of Croatia's Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.
After Tito's regime normalized its relations with the Soviets, Goli Otok prison was passed down into provincial jurisdiction of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (as opposed to the Yugoslav federal authorities).
As a deserter, he was sentenced to three years prison on the island Goli otok, but as he told the military court they couldn’t hold him for so long as he could survive, they raised his punishment to five and a half years.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Goli-otok   (1204 words)

  
 Courrier international, UNE JOURNÉE DANS LE GOULAG DE TITO • Goli Otok, lieu de mémoire
Goli Otok — c’est-à-dire “l’île nue” — n’a pourtant pas toujours été un havre de paix et de bonheur.
Jusque-là inhabitée, l’île de Goli Otok a été utilisée pour la première fois comme lieu d’internement lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, quand l’armée austro-hongroise y a amené des prisonniers de guerre russes.
Goli Otok et son univers concentrationnaire valent le détour, d’autant que l’île est également un haut lieu de la plongée sous-marine, mais ne constituent évidemment pas l’attrait principal de la région.
www.courrierinternational.com /article.asp?obj_id=58900   (1531 words)

  
 (krkholiday photo story - Goli otok i otok Grgur)
Goli otok (literal translation: "barren island") is an island off the northern Adriatic coast, located between Rab's northeastern shore and the mainland, in what is today Republic of Croatia's Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.The island is barren and uninhabited.
Goli otok je neplodan i nema stalnih stanovnika.
Goli otok u strogi zatvor gdje iskljucivo bili zatvarani politicki zatvorenici.
www.krkholiday.com /KrkFotoStory/goli/goli.html   (387 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Goli otok
Goli otok (translated: "naked island") is an island on the Croatian Adriatic coast, located between the northeastern coast of Rab and the mainland, in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.
During World War I, Austria-Hungary sent Russian prisoners of war from the Eastern Front to the Goli otok.
The whole island was officially made into a high-security prison in 1949 by the authorities of communist Yugoslavia.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Goli_Otok   (381 words)

  
 Goli otok Information
Goli otok (literal translation: "barren island") is an island off the northern Adriatic coast, located between Rab's northeastern shore and the mainland, in what is today Republic of Croatia's Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.
The prison inmates were forced to do heavy labor in a stone quarry, regardless of the weather conditions: in the summer it was at 35-40C, while in the winter they were subjected to chilling bora wind.
After Tito's regime normalized its relations with the Soviets, Goli Otok prison was passed down into provincial jurisdiction of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (as opposed to the Yugoslav federal authorities).
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Goli_otok   (342 words)

  
 Book Review: Goli Otok
This rare, first-person account of physical and mental torture in the prison on Goli Otok should be read as widely as possible, because it tells the truth about inhumane conduct in peacetime.  Josip Zoretić is painfully honest and naming names to bring offenders to justice.
Goli Otok is near Rab and the island of Grgur, which was a prison for women.
A place of pain, barbarity and execution, Goli Otok was a top secret jail where Tito's Yugoslav communist regime detained over 30,000 political prisoners knowing that they were sure to crumble under the conditions.
www.croatia.org /crown/articles/9109/1/Book-Review-Goli-Otok/Firsthand-account-of-brutality-in-communist-Yugoslavia.html   (495 words)

  
 Guantanamo's Torture Regime is a Shameful Disgrace
All the survivors of Goli Otok (the island had a camp for men as well) agree that under prolonged conditions of torture, they would do anything, say anything, write anything and sign anything that was demanded of them in the hope of being released.
Their accounts of detention are horrifyingly similar to the conditions in Goli Otok.
In both cases, the denial of a trial, and a specified date of release added to the physical torture the three endured.
www.commondreams.org /views04/0823-03.htm   (967 words)

  
 Goli Otok - Hell in the Adriatic
It is a rare detailed description of the evil and horrors that happened on Goli Otok.
The man was Josip Zoretic and the setting is Goli Otok, the "Naked Island" prison camp in the Adriatic Sea.
Although Goli Otok is a memoir, it is written so vividly, with a lot of dialogue, that it reads like a novel, a grim political satire with humor, wit, and insightful historical asides.
www.goliotok.com   (353 words)

  
 Feeling spoilt? Spend a night in prison   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Modric envisions tourists being issued convict uniforms, pounding large stones with a sledgehammer and hauling the pieces on their backs to quarries around the prison on Goli Otok, a barren island in the northern Adriatic Sea.
Goli Otok - which means Naked Island - was a miniature gulag set up by Yugoslavia's communist dictator Josip Broz Tito after World War 2.
To bring in tourists, Modric wants to build a gondola connecting the mainland to Goli Otok and a smaller neighbouring island that served as a political prison for women.
agonist.org /node/9108/print   (387 words)

  
 Goli Otok - Giacomo Scotti
Alcuni, i più in vista, dopo processi sommari con l'accusa di tradimento e spionaggio al servizio del Cominform, finiscono a Goli Otok, il campo di concentramento aperto nel luglio `49.
Il gulag di Goli Otok rimane un carcere politico fino al `56, poi con la normalizzazione dei rapporti tra Jugoslavia e Urss dopo la morte di Stalin, si riconverte in carcere per detenuti comuni e i "politici" sopravvissuti vengono progressivamente liberati.
Coloro che vengono portati alla Dugi Otok spariscono.
www.linteditoriale.com /archivio2001/goli.html   (1993 words)

  
 World Connecion - Artist info
Like the one about a man who survived a year on Goli Otok - that barren piece of rock off the Dalmatian coast that's scorched all day by a merciless sun from which there's not a single place to hide.
Goli Otok - a name that means "the naked island" - where the Communist authorities from Tito's Yugoslavia dumped political dissidents and hardened criminals, knowing that they were sure to crumble there.
The scars on his face, souvenirs from Goli Otok as well as from nightly stabbings when knives were pulled to defend one's honour or to protect oneself from jealous lovers, betray a life that hasn't been easy - and not easy in regard to music either.
www.worldconnection.nl /docs/artists/saban_bajramovic.htm   (1050 words)

  
 Freitag 40 - Goli Otok
Dafür erklärt ein junger Mann den ausländischen Passagieren mit Hilfe einer Landkarte, wohin diese Reise eigentlich geht.
Auch ich war auf Goli Otok und habe, wie ein Faltblatt in deutscher Sprache empfiehlt, den Strand und das Lager besucht.
An das Leben und die Verneinung des Lebens auf Goli Otok erinnern die nackten Pin-ups aus einschlägigen Herrenmagazinen an den bröckelnden Wänden der Baracken.
www.freitag.de /2005/40/05402004.php   (573 words)

  
 Terraviva EUROPE
They were not sent to Goli Otok, but were banned from participating in public life or finding regular jobs.
After serving their sentences, convicts were forced to sign a document obliging them never to speak about Goli Otok.
Goli Otok was opened to tourists after Croatia became an independent state in 1991.
www.ipsterraviva.net /Europe/article.aspx?id=3265   (795 words)

  
 Goli Otok 2000.: realnost - entropija - novi hrvatski turizam (2000) (V)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
IMDb > Goli Otok 2000.: realnost - entropija - novi hrvatski turizam (2000) (V)
Goli Otok 2000.: realnost - entropija - novi hrvatski turizam (2000) (V)
Goli Otok 2000: Realty - Entropy - The New Croatian Tourism (Ireland: English title)
www.imdb.com /title/tt0333505   (164 words)

  
 Rab Island : Introduction | Frommers.com
Tito raised Rab's profile by converting the barren little island of Goli Otok (between Rab's east side and the mainland) into a prison camp where he detained Stalin supporters (though officially the place didn't exist and wasn't mentioned until Tito's death).
It is said that men who wound up on Goli Otok spent their days carrying rocks from one site to another and back again.
Today Goli Otok is a tour stop and Rab is a mecca for visitors who want to combine a beach vacation with a little history, both of which are readily available throughout the island.
www.frommers.com /destinations/rabisland/3661010001.html   (439 words)

  
 Croatia - Goli Otok
Goli otok (Bare Island), is an island off the northern Adriatic coast, located between Rab's northeastern shore and the mainland, in what is today Republic of Croatia's Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.
Throughout World War I, Austria-Hungary sent Russian prisoners of war from Eastern Front to Goli Otok.
In 1949, the entire island was officially made into a high-security prison run by the authorities of Socialist Yugoslavia.
www.croatiatouristcenter.com /GoliOtok.htm   (168 words)

  
 Goli Otok :: Isole : RSS Feeds : Gourt
Goli Otok :: Isole : RSS Feeds : Gourt
Otok è il nome di due cittadine della Croazia.
Inferno nel paradiso delle vacanze - L'autore descrive attraverso le sue impressioni, i racconti e le fotografie come si svolgeva la vita nell'isola che una volta era un carcere femminile.
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Fworld.gourt.com%2FItaliano%2FRegionale%2FEuropa%2FCroazia%2FIsole%2FGoli-Otok.html   (642 words)

  
 :: calabashmusic.com
As a deserter, he was sentenced to three years prison on the island Goli otok, but as he told the military court they couldn’t hold him for so long as he could survive, they raised his punishment to five and a half years.
He also says that the prison on Goli otok was his university of life where he formed his philosophy, adding that a person who has never been in prison is not a person at all.
After Goli Otok, his intensive music career began.
calabashmusic.com /world/publisher/artistview/action/viewbio?item_id=45651   (780 words)

  
 Gulag reality tours in Croatia? - Vagablogging.net - Rolf Potts
After breaking with Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav dicta­tor Tito used Goli Otok, an island near Rab, as a labor camp for political prisoners.
Goli Otok has a lot to offer for this type of tourist.
We're proposing that tourism be arranged on Goli Otok exactly as described by those who were real prisoners, without force or particular strain unless requested, and then confined to the limits of each individual's physical abili­ty.
www.vagablogging.net /archives/004261.shtml   (438 words)

  
 IOL: Feeling spoilt? Spend a night in prison
Modric envisions tourists being issued convict uniforms, pounding large stones with a sledgehammer and hauling the pieces on their backs to quarries around the prison on Goli Otok, a barren island in the northern Adriatic Sea.
Goli Otok - which means Naked Island - was a miniature gulag set up by Yugoslavia's communist dictator Josip Broz Tito after World War 2.
To bring in tourists, Modric wants to build a gondola connecting the mainland to Goli Otok and a smaller neighbouring island that served as a political prison for women.
www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw1100707920436B263   (541 words)

  
 (E) Protest raised against Croatian gulag tourism idea, November 22, 2004
A study recently ordered by the government envisaged "hard-labour holidays" on Goli Otok, a rocky and inhospitable island that was virtually abandoned following the dismantlement of a detention camp there as the Yugoslav federation crumbled in the late 1980s.
The aim would be for guests to survive long enough to receive a certificate at the end of the 'holiday' proving they had done their time.
Former detainees of Goli Otok have welcomed the idea, some even offering their services as guides, according to the study's author, Josip Modric.
www.croatianworld.net /Letters/4837.htm   (362 words)

  
 Set a Course for Indenture (Harpers.org)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After breaking with Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav dictator Tito used Goli Otok, an island near Rab, as a labor camp for political prisoners.
Goli Otok has a lot to offer for this type of tourist.
We're proposing that tourism be arranged on Goli Otok exactly as described by those who were real prisoners, without force or particular strain unless requested, and then confined to the limits of each individual's physical ability.
harpers.org /SetACourseForIndenture.html   (591 words)

  
 TZM - Lopar -> Rab -> Croatia
There are also several boats for whole-day excursions to nearby islets sveti grgur, goli otok, baska and kosljun, on the island of krk, as well as nearby fjord zavratnica.
Without any doubt, the most attractive excursion is the one to goli otok (naked island) with its notorious former prison, which is among tourists also known as "croatian alcatraz".
With a help from professional guide, the excursion turns into a genuine voyage through harsh history of this island where many innocent people left their lives just because they disagreed with the then communist regime.
www.lopar.com /eng/izleti.htm   (192 words)

  
 Expatica — Living in, moving to, or working in France,plus News in English
All the survivors of Goli Otok (the island had a camp for men as well) agree that under prolonged conditions of torture, they would do anything, say anything, write anything and sign anything that was demanded of them in the hope of being released.
Their accounts of detention are horrifyingly similar to the conditions in Goli Otok.
In both cases, the denial of a trial, and a specified date of release added to the physical torture the three endured.
www.expatica.com /source/forum_thread.asp?channel_id=4&thread_id=12384   (237 words)

  
 A Book About Goli Otok - The Former Yugoslavia's Notorious Evil Island Gulag
IRVINE, Calif., May 9, 2007 -- "Goli Otok - Hell in the Adriatic" is the true story of Josip Zoretic's tragic experience and survival as a political prisoner of the former Yugoslavia's most notorious prison, Goli Otok, and the circumstances that led to his imprisonment.
He provides a firsthand account of the island prison labor camp from 1962 to 1969 that institutionalized a system of repression and enslavement against those who opposed the communist regime and the spread of greater Serbian authority.
The story is straightforward and brutally frank in its descriptions of day-to-day life on the island-prison.
www.ereleases.com /pr/20070509010.html   (355 words)

  
 Goli Otok Travel Guide - TravBuddy
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