Dragutin Kamber

Dragutin Kamber (9 December 1901 – 20 June 1969) was a Croatian Jesuit priest and Ustaše functionary who served as the Grand Prefect of Doboj and later as the chaplain of the Croatian Armed Forces in the Axis puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. In 1941, he oversaw the mass arrests and internment of Serbs in Doboj, many of whom were interrogated in his house before being killed in its basement. According to the historian Robert B. McCormick, Kamber was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Serbs during this period.

As the NDH collapsed in May 1945, Kamber fled to Austria and then to Italy, where he recruited for the priest Krunoslav Draganović's ratline, which was used to smuggle former Axis officials out of post-war Europe. In 1947, the Yugoslav government issued a warrant for Kamber's arrest. He later immigrated to the United States under the name Charles Kamber, serving as a parish priest in Gary, Indiana, and Lynch, Nebraska, and became a naturalized American citizen. In 1958, he testified as a defense witness at the deportation hearings of the NDH's former Minister of Internal Affairs, Andrija Artuković, who in the post-war years had settled in Los Angeles. In 1961, Kamber was appointed as the parish priest of Our Lady Queen of Croatia Church in Toronto, and oversaw its reconstruction after it was destroyed in a fire the following year. He lived in Toronto until his death in 1969. He is the namesake of Father Kamber Park located on the grounds of the Church of the Croatian Martyrs in Mississauga, Ontario.