List of Italian concentration camps

Italian concentration camps include camps from the Italian colonial wars in Africa as well as camps for the civilian population from areas occupied by Italy during WW II. Memory of both camps were subjected to "historical amnesia". The repression of memory led to historical revisionism in Italy^[1] and in 2003 the Italian media published Silvio Berlusconi's statement that Benito Mussolini only "used to send people on vacation".^[2][3]

Colonial wars

Name of the camp and location of locality and present-day country	Date of establishment	Date of disestablishment	Estimated number of prisoners	Estimated number of deaths
Nocra prison camp in Nocra, Eritrea	1930s	1941
Abyar concentration camp in Abyar, Libya	1930	1933	3,123[4]
Agedabia concentration camp in Ajdabiya, Libya	1930	1933	10,000[4]
El Agheila concentration camp in El Agheila, Libya	1930	1933	10,900[4]
Marsa Brega concentration camp in Brega, Libya	1930	1933	21,117[4]
Sid Ahmed el Maghrun concentration camp in El Magrun, Libya	1930	1933	13,050[4]
Soluch concentration camp in Suluq, Libya	1930	1933	20,123[4]
Danane concentration camp near Mogadishu, Somalia	1935	1941	6,000[4]	3,175[5]

World War II

Name of the camp and location of locality and present-day country	Date of establishment	Date of disestablishment	Estimated number of prisoners	Estimated number of deaths
Bakar	31 December 1942	1 July 1943	893[6]
Baranello near Campobasso
Bolzano Transit Camp in South Tyrol	September 8, 1943	April 29 and May 3, 1949	11,000
Campagna concentration camp in Campagna near Salerno	15 June 1940	19 September 1943
Casolli near Chieti
Chiesanuova near Padua	June 1942
Cremona
Ferramonti di Tarsia near Cosenza	summer 1940	4 September 1943	3,800
Finale Emilia near Modena
Gonars concentration camp near Palmanova	March 1942	8 September 1943	7,000	453; >500
Lipari
Malo near Venice
Molat (Melada)
Monigo near Treviso	June 1942
Montechiarugolo near Parma
Ponza
Potenza
Rab concentration camp on the island of Rab (Arbe), separate camps for Slovenes/Croats and Jews	July 1942	11 September 1943	10,000; 15,000	2,000; >3,500; 4,000
Renicci di Anghiari, near Arezzo	October 1942
Risiera di San Sabba,[7] in Trieste	October 1943	April 1945	> 11,500	4,000–5,000[8]
Sepino near Campobasso
Treviso
Urbisaglia
Vestone
Vinchiaturo, near Campobasso
Visco, near Palmanova	winter 1942
Campo di Fossoli, near Carpi

References

1. Alessandra Kersevan 2008: (Editor) Foibe – Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica. Kappa Vu. Udine.
2. Survivors of war camp lament Italy's amnesia, 2003, International Herald Tribune
3. Di Sante, Costantino (2005) Italiani senza onore: I crimini in Jugoslavia e i processi negati (1941–1951), Ombre Corte, Milano. (Archived by WebCite®)
4. Michael R. Ebner. Geoff Simons. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy. New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 261.
5. Donatella Strangio. The Reasons for Underdevelopment: The Case of Decolonisation in Somaliland. Springer, 2012. P. 5.
6. Bakar concentration camp, Online Research project
7. "English - Risiera di San Sabba – Monumento Nazionale – Comune di Trieste". risierasansabba.it.
8. "Trieste ebraica » La Risiera di San Sabba". moked.it.

External links

• campifascisti.it, Online Research project
• "The Last Witnesses", 2013 Exhibition at National Museum for Contemporary History (Slovenia) documenting photos and interviews with survivors