Summary: Activities of the representatives of the Catholic Church in saving captives of the Kampor Camp on the island of Rab in the years 1942–1943. On the 50th anniversary of the death of the bishop of Krk Dr Josip Srebrnić

Na temelju dostupnog izvornog gradiva i objavljene literature autor ovim radom nastoji prezentirati važne činjenice o djelovanju predstavnika Katoličke crkve u spašavanju interniraca u koncentracijskom logoru Kampor na otoku Rabu 1942. - 1943. godine. Riječ je o talijanskom fašističkom logoru koji je zbog posvemašnjih nečovječnih uvjeta zatočenika opravdano nazvan logor smrti. U obradi ove teme autor je nastojao posebno naglasiti iznimno važnu ulogu krčkog biskupa dr. Josipa Srebrnića te najviših predstavnika Svete Stolice u njihovu svesrdnom nastojanju da se konkretnim akcijama, poduzetim kod vojnih i upravnih vrhova fašističke Kraljevine Italije, u kamporskom mučilištu poboljšaju prilike te humano postupa prema internircima. U tome su postignuti značajni rezultati, čime su bili spašeni životi mnogih žena, djece i staraca deportiranih s anektiranog područja Slovenije, Gorskog kotara i Kvarnerskog primorja u ljeto 1942., a potom i židovskih interniraca koji su u logor bili deportirani s teritorija NDH u proljeće 1943. godine.Based on the available source material and published texts, the author seeks with this paper to present important facts on the activities of the representatives of the Catholic Church in saving internees of the Kampor concentration camp on the island of Rab during 1942 and 1943. The camp in question was an Italian Fascist camp notorious for its all-out inhuman conditions of life of the prisoners, for which it was justly called a "death camp". In dealing with the subject, the author was seeking to emphasize in particular the exceptionally important role of the bishop of Krk Dr Josip Srebrnić as well as the highest representatives of the Holy See in their fervent endeavour to ensure, through concrete steps made at the military and administrative top of the Fascist Kingdom of Italy, that the conditions in the torture chamber of Kampor should be improved and the internees treated in a more humane way. Significant results were made in that respect, saving the lives of many women, children and old people deported from the annexed areas of Slovenia, Gorski kotar and Quarnero in the summer of 1942, and also, some time later, the lives of Jewish internees deported from the territory of the NDH in the spring of the year 1943