Delovanje taborišča Šentvid
Operation of the Šentvid Camp

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the operation of the Yugoslav communist camp for political prisoners and prisoners of war, which was founded by Ozna (Department for the Protection of the People) in the institution Škofovi zavodi (Bishop’s institutions) in Šentvid nad Ljubljano immediately after the end of the Second World War in May 1945. A more detailed overview of the regime in the Šentvid camp shows that internees dealt with severe overcrowding, severe hunger, poor hygienic conditions, frequent health problems, and various forms of physical and psychological violence. As a result, some of the prisoners died already in the camp, and many of them were taken to be executed at killing grounds without any judicial processes, especially to the killing grounds in the area of Kočevski rog. The only releases of a large number of internees took place after the amnesty in August 1945; only a few internees at the Šentvid camp lived long enough to have reached them.

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