Fossoli Concentration Camp

place of memory that can also be visited inside ... to be preserved for future generations.

The Fossoli camp was born in 1942 as a prison camp in Fossoli, a hamlet of Carpi in the province of Modena. After the Italian Social Republic approved the Verona Manifesto on 14 November 1943 in which the seventh of the 18 programmatic points classified «[...] those belonging to the "Jewish race" in general as foreigners and, during the war, enemies" from December 5, 1943 the camp, known since then as Fossoli di Carpi, was first used by the RSI and a few months later directly by the SS as the main concentration and transit camp (in German: Polizei- und Durchgangslager) for the deportation to Germany of Jews and political opponents, mainly towards Auschwitz. After the war, the camp was used to intern prisoners of the fascist regime.

Concentration camp near Carpi