In the early ’40, after racial laws, Fascists built about 10 concentration camps in Italy, with barracks, fences, and other prison’s structures according to a plan. The camps were opened between 1940 and 1943.
Fascists managed most of them. Others were passed on to the Nazi occupying force after the 1943 armistice.
What remains:
Risiera San Sabba opened October of 1943 and was managed by the Nazis in collaboration with local Italian Fascists. Between 3,000 and 4,000 partisans and political prisoners were killed there. It was the Italian Jews’ main passage-camp to the extermination camps of Central Europe.
Ferramonti opened in June 1940. Prisoners: Jewish, Greeks, Chinese, Yugoslavian and French and antifascists. In August ’43 there were 2016 prisoners.
Le Fraschette opened in 1942 with more than 200 barracks. About 900 Maltese and 2,900 Yugoslavian were held there. Most of them were women.
Fossoli opened in 1942 as a POW camp for English soldiers; it was passed on to the Nazi occupying force after the 1943 armistice. 2,450 “racial” prisoners and 2,840 political prisoners were held at the Fossoli-Carpi camp, before being shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Flossenburg.
Fascists managed most of them. Others were passed on to the Nazi occupying force after the 1943 armistice.
What remains:
Risiera San Sabba opened October of 1943 and was managed by the Nazis in collaboration with local Italian Fascists. Between 3,000 and 4,000 partisans and political prisoners were killed there. It was the Italian Jews’ main passage-camp to the extermination camps of Central Europe.
Ferramonti opened in June 1940. Prisoners: Jewish, Greeks, Chinese, Yugoslavian and French and antifascists. In August ’43 there were 2016 prisoners.
Le Fraschette opened in 1942 with more than 200 barracks. About 900 Maltese and 2,900 Yugoslavian were held there. Most of them were women.
Fossoli opened in 1942 as a POW camp for English soldiers; it was passed on to the Nazi occupying force after the 1943 armistice. 2,450 “racial” prisoners and 2,840 political prisoners were held at the Fossoli-Carpi camp, before being shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Flossenburg.