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THE SOBOL BROTHERS IVAN AND MATE – PHYSICIANS; PUBLIC FIGURES AND ANTIFASCISTS
Vladimir Uremović
Ivan Vukelić
Sažetak
This review is in memory of brothers Ivan and Mate Sobol; who were the role models
as fine physicians; public figures and antifascists.
Doctor Ivan Sobol (1885-1941) graduated from the Medical School in Prague and
changed several Croatian towns before he settled in Crikvenica in 1912; where he
worked until his death. The townsfolk remembered him by skilful practice; then by his
activity in promoting health tourism in Crikvenica and especially in promoting collaboration
and friendship with other nations, Czechs and Slovaks in particular. When
WW2 broke out; Ivan Sobol worked under cover for the antifascist movement, but was
betrayed and shot by Italian fascists with a group of hostages.
Like his elder brother, doctor Mate Sobol (1904-1943) graduated in Prague and practiced
medicine in his own office and then as a navy physician in Selce. After Italian
occupation and the execution of his brother in 1941, he joined the partisan movement.
He mostly practiced in a partisan hospital in DreŽnica. During an enemy offensive in
1943, he had to hide with his sick and wounded patients and suffer extreme conditions.
He died of typhus the same year. In memory of the Sobol brothers Rijeka General Hospital bore their name for a number of years.
Ključne riječi
history of medicine; 20th century; physicians; WW2; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
101763
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2004.
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