• The Fossoli camp (Italian: Campo di Fossoli) was a concentration camp in Italy, established during World War II and located in the village Fossoli, Carpi...
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    Vittore Prison Roman Ghetto Ardeatine massacre Bolzano Transit Camp Borgo San Dalmazzo Fossoli camp Risiera di San Sabba The murdering of Jews in Italy began...
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    concentration camp and has a population of about 4400. Born as a rural village, Fossoli sadly became infamous during World War II, for the concentration camp located...
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    Primo Levi (category Fossoli camp survivors)
    He was sent to the internment camp at Fossoli near Modena. Levi later wrote the following about the conditions at Fossoli: We were given, on a regular...
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  • a district - of Carpi, in which 67 people already imprisoned in the Fossoli camp died. Among the victims were a number of notable Italian partisans, including...
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    December 1943 to February 1944. Fossoli camp, located in the Emilia-Romagna region, operating as a prisoner of war camp under Italian control from May...
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    Nazi army. When the internment camp in Fossoli became vulnerable to Allied attack, it was dismantled, and a transit camp for prisoners headed for Mauthausen...
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    days in the Regina Coeli prison in Rome, and after a brief stay in the Fossoli camp, on 17 May 1944, was then sent to deportation to Auschwitz. Roberto Lucifero...
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    Liana Millu (category Fossoli camp survivors)
    Josephia's Shirt (collection of stories) From Liguria to the Extermination Camps (non-fiction) Neal, Stephan D. Yada-Mc (2018-07-13). 50 Women against Hitler:...
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    in the camp were, on orders from the Gestapo office in Nice, taken to the nearby train station, put in freight cars, and taken to either Fossoli di Carpi...
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    The Giado concentration camp was a forced labor concentration camp for Italian and Libyan Jews in Giado, Libya (now called Jadu), operating during the...
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    Raimondo Ricci (category Fossoli camp survivors)
    given to the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. He was freed on 5 May 1945. Once he returned to Italy, Ricci graduated in...
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  • Mario Finzi (category Fossoli camp survivors)
    Bologna jail of San Giovanni al Monte and subsequently in the Fossoli concentration camp, he was then transported in a sealed railway-car to Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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  • There were a number of Axis prisoner-of-war camps in Italy during World War II. The initials "P.G." denote Prigione di Guerra (Prison of War), often interchanged...
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    Teresio Olivelli (category Fossoli camp survivors)
    of San Vittore where he was tortured and beaten before being moved to Fossoli on 8 June. On 11 July his name was added to a list of 70 inmates to be...
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    Piero Terracina (category Fossoli camp survivors)
    brief stay in the Fossoli camp, on 17 May 1944, was then sent to deportation. An inhuman travel by train to the Auschwitz death camp, in a wagon crammed...
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  • Italian concentration camps include camps from the Italian colonial wars in Africa as well as camps for the civilian population from areas occupied by...
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    composer Beppe Lopetrone [it] (1950–2007), fashion photographer Fossoli concentration camp Cassa di Risparmio di Carpi Wikisource has the text of the 1911...
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    also credited for organizing the escape of allied prisoners from the Fossoli camp and he hid the escapees in his farm. Cervi managed these activities with...
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    Odoardo Focherini (category Fossoli camp survivors)
    remained there until 5 July when he was moved to Fossoli. From there Focherini was sent to a labour camp in Bolzano and remained there until 4 August when...
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    Karl Friedrich Titho (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
    (ranked SS-Untersturmführer), who as commander of the Fossoli di Carpi and Bolzano Transit Camps oversaw the Cibeno Massacre in 1944. Titho was jailed...
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    Verona prison, and then to the Fossoli transit camp, where he was tortured again, with no more success. Even while in the camp, he managed to remain in contact...
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  • Rubino Romeo Salmonì (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
    police in April 1944. After being imprisoned in Rome, he was moved to a camp in Fossoli and arrived at Auschwitz when he was 24. He was given the identification...
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  • arrested with her mother and one of her brothers and was imprisoned in Fossoli camp but they all escaped during a bombing that hit their train. After the...
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    Grete Berger (category Austrian people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
    Socialist concentration camp was scheduled for 10 April 1944. She was transferred to the Jewish collection and transit camp Fossoli near Carpi. There she...
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    World War II as a Nazi concentration camp for the detention and killing of political prisoners, and a transit camp for Jews, most of whom were then deported...
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  • Zeno Saltini. After World War II, he turned a former concentration camp (the Fossoli di Carpi near Modena, Emilia-Romagna) into a refuge for orphaned children...
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  • also established concentration camps for arrested Jews following the issuing of Police Order No. 5, like the Fossoli camp, reopened in December 1943, which...
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    1938. Following the German intervention in 1941, some Jews were sent to camps in continental Europe, where those who survived stayed until the end of...
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    "volunteer" units in the German armed forces) or, otherwise, be sent to detention camps in Germany. Those soldiers and officials who refused to recognize the "republic"...
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