WWII 1941 On 23 May 1941, the Ustaše raided Gornje Dubrave and carried away 29 of its residents, including the priest, railway workers, farmers, teachers and the innkeeper. Only a male and female teacher ever returned. The female teacher was raped in the
Ogulin castle and was subsequently sent off to the Psychiatric Hospital "Sveti Ivan" in
Stenjevec. After the mass arrests began, the father of railway worker Miloš Zatezalo fled to the
GMS for safety, remaining there the entire war, leaving his wife and children behind. In late June or early July 1941, the priest in Gornje Dubrave was arrested. In early July, he had not yet been sent away. As of a 15 July document, all he had been sent to a concentration camp. A 2 July was issued order for all Velike župe, including that of Modruš (with seat in
Ogulin), to make room for 2500
Slovenes each, who were to occupy the homes of 2500 Serbs, to be deported to the
GMS, prioritising businessmen and merchants. Gornje Dubrave was to accommodate 350 Slovenes. As of mid-July, there were not enough empty Serb homes to accommodate the exchange. On 30 July, 16 Serb villagers of Gornje Dubrave were arrested at the market in Ogulin, having come there to sell. Beginning with the next market on 6 August, the Serbs stopped coming out of fear that it would happen a third time.
1942 At 10:00 on 24 February 1942, a group of about 300 "Communists" with automatic weapons arrived in the area of
Ogulin and above
Hreljin and
Kučaj. Until 14:00, they blocked the road to Ogulin, after which they retreated to Gomirje. For 3–4 days they appeared from time to time in the area of Ogulin, Hreljin,
Vrbovsko and
Gomirje, then Gornje Dubrave, Gomirje and
Jasenak. At 14:42 on 19 June, a freight train with an Italian military guard carrying 26 cisterns and 1 flour wagon between Gornje Dubrave and
Zdenac hit an extracted track, derailing as a result. The wagon loaded with flour caught on fire, partly burned and partly carried away by Partisans of the 1st battalion of the who had laid the barrier. The Partisans shot up the cisterns, which were later plugged up in Gornje Dubrave. Traffic on the line was stopped, and one Italian soldier was killed. The conductor and two fuellers were taken by the Partisans, and their fate remained unknown. On 8 July 1942, a train derailed between
Donje and Gornje Dubrave was derailed by a section of destroyed track, destroying both its locomotives. The armoured train could not come to its assistance because on the same day, another passenger train was derailed between
Generalski Stol and Donje Dubrave. Partisans emptied 2 wagons. Among the dead there were 2
Ustaše, while the fate of another officer and soldier who had been on board remained unknown. On the 15th, a Partisan attack on the railway station was repelled. ==Demographics==