The Holocaust and compensated compliance in Italy : Fossoli di Carpi, 1942-1952 / Alexis Herr.
Alexis Herr author
Book| Title |
Fossoli : from Italian concentration camp for Jews to a Polizei- und Durchgangslager. |
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| Host Item |
Yad Vashem Studies 42,1 (2014) 111-138 |
| Description |
The German occupation of northern and central Italy in September 1943 brought about the extention of the Nazi anti-Jewish policies into this area. The newly established pro-German Italian Social Republic (RSI) proved to be a good collaborator with the Nazis in their Final Solution. In November 1943 the RSI interior minister issued an ordinance-law, according to which all the Jews of Italy, whether Italian or foreign, were to be arrested and interned, and their property was to be seized. In accordance with this ordinance, a major national camp for Jews was created in the Province of Modena, Fossoli di Carpi. RSI authorities began to assemble the Jews of northern and central Italy at this camp. Fossoli became a transit camp, from which the Jews were deported to German-run camps the first such deportation took place in January 1944. In February-March 1944 the German SS took control of Fossoli and restructured it. From January-August 1944, 2,801 Jews and persons of mixed origin were deported to Nazi camps: 2,338 to Auschwitz and 323 to Bergen-Belsen. While it was German occupiers who engineered the deportations to the camps, the first cobblestones in the road to Auschwitz were laid by Italian authorities. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) In English and in Hebrew. |
| Language |
English |
| Credits |
באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center |
| National Library system number |
990005553240705171 |
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