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 World War II. Memory of both camps were subjected to "historical amnesia". The repression of memory led to historical revisionism in Italy and in 2003 the Italian media published Silvio Berlusconi's statement that Benito Mussolini only "used to send people on vacation".

Colonial wars

There were numerous war crimes conducted by the Italian Army in the colonies. In Cyrenaica alone between 1929 and 1933 over 40,000 people were killed and 80,000 locked up in concentration camps, out of a total population of just 193,000. According to the historian Ilan Pappé, the fascist regime between 1928 and 1932 killed half the Bedouin population either directly or by starvation in the fields. According to the historian Angelo Del Boca, in 1933, of the approximately 100,000 Libyans deported from Jebel Achdar and Marmarica, more than 40,000 died in the camps.

Name of the camp Location of camp Present-day country Date of establishment Date of disestablishment Estimated number of prisoners Estimated number of deaths
Nocra Nocra Eritrea 1930s 1941   1,500
Abyar Abyar Libya 1930 1933 3,123  
Agedabia Ajdabiya Libya 1930 1933 10,000 1,500
El Agheila El Agheila Libya 1930 1933 10,900  
Marsa Brega Brega Libya 1930 1933 21,117  
Sid Ahmed el Maghrun El Magrun Libya 1930 1933 13,050 4,500
Soluch Suluq Libya 1930 1933 20,123 5,500
Derna Derna Libya 1930 1933 145
Apollonia Apollonia Libya 1930 1933 1,354
Barce Barce Libya 1930 1933 538
Driana Driana Libya 1930 1933 225
Nufilia Nufilia Libya 1930 1933 375
Danane Mogadishu Somalia 1935 1941 6,000 3,175
Total ~44 675

World War II

Name of the camp Location of locality Present-day country Date of establishment Date of disestablishment Estimated number of prisoners Estimated number of deaths
Bakar Bakar Croatia 31 December 1942 1 July 1943 893 100-120
Bolzano South Tyrol Italy September 8, 1943 April 29 and May 3, 1945 11,000  
Campagna Salerno Italy 15 June 1940 19 September 1943    
Chiesanuova Padua Italy June 1942      
Ferramonti di Tarsia Cosenza Italy summer 1940 4 September 1943 3,800  
Giado Jadu, Libya Libya January 1942 24 January 1943 3,146 562
Gonars Palmanova Italy March 1942 8 September 1943 7,000 453; >500
Mamula Mamula island Montenegro 30 May 1942 14 September 1943 2,322 200
Monigo Treviso Italy 1 July 1942 May 1945 10,000 187-225
Molat Molat Croatia 28 June 1942 8 September 1943 20,000 c. 1,000
Rab, separate camps for Slovenes/Croats and Jews Rab (Arbe) island Croatia July 1942 11 September 1943 10,000; 15,000 2,000; >3,500; 4,000
Renicci di Anghiari Arezzo Italy October 1942      
Risiera di San Sabba Trieste Italy October 1943 April 1945 > 11,500 4,000–5,000
Visco Palmanova Italy winter 1942      
Zlarin Zlarin Croatia March 1943 June 1943 2,500 26
Campo di Fossoli Carpi Italy May 1942 March 1944    

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