Prebilovci massacre
| Prebilovci massacres | |
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Location of Prebilovci on a map of Occupied Yugoslavia | |
| Location | Villages of Prebilovci, Šurmanci, Golubinka pit |
| Coordinates | 43°05′39″N 17°45′13″E / 43.09417°N 17.75361°E |
| Date | August 1941 |
| Target | Civilian Serbs, including women and children |
Attack type | War crime, civilian massacre |
| Deaths | ~5,000 |
| Perpetrator | Croatian Ustaše |
| Motive | Religious-ethnic cleansing |
The Prebilovci massacre (Serbian: Масакр у Пребиловцима) was an atrocity and war crime perpetrated by the Croatian Ustaše in the Independent State of Croatia during the World War II genocide of Serbs. On 6 August 1941, the Ustaše killed around 600 women and children from the village of Prebilovci, Herzegovina, by throwing them into the Golubinka pit, near Šurmanci.
During the summer of 1941, the Ustaša continued with mass murders of Serbs – of 1,000 inhabitants of Prebilovci, 820 of them were killed, while in the neighbouring places of the lower basin of the Neretva river, including Šurmanci, around 4,000 Serbs were killed. The Golubinka pit was covered with concrete in 1961.