The Italian Second Army established the Arbe camp in July 1942 on the southeastern part of the Italian-annexed Yugoslavian island of Rab (Italian: Arbe), which is 66 kilometers (41 miles) southeast of Rijeka (Italian: Fiume). Established in the town of Kampor (Italian: Campora) on a wide plain, it was located between the Campora and Sant’Eufemia coastal inlets. Officially called the Arbe concentration camp of civilian internees (campo di concentramento internati civili Arbe), the camp’s mostly South Slavic inmates called it Rab or Kampor. At the end of June, Italian soldiers began building a complex intended to hold some 16,000 Slovenian civilian internees. The camp was initially divided into two areas, one with barracks for 10,000 people and the other with tents for 6,000. In the autumn of 1942, the Italian authorities reduced the camp’s capacity to 10,000 detainees. Arbe’s first commandant was carabiniere tenente colonnello Vincenzo Venne. Its last commandant was a carabiniere of ...