Risiera di San Sabba
Nazi concentration camp in Trieste, Italy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Risiera di San Sabba (Slovene: Rižarna) is a five-storey brick-built compound located in Trieste, northern Italy, that functioned during 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 to Auschwitz.[1]
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Risiera di San Sabba | |
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Concentration camp | |
Internal courtyard of the Risiera di San Sabba. The remains of the crematorium can be seen on the wall. | |
Coordinates | 45°37′15″N 13°47′21″E |
Location | Trieste, Italian Social Republic |
Operated by | SS |
Inmates | Italian Political prisoners, Italian Jews, Yugoslavian Resistance fighters and Yugoslavian civilians (primarily Slovenes and Croats) |
Killed | 3,000–5,000 |
Notable inmates | Boris Pahor |
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The cremation facilities, the only ones built inside a concentration camp in Italy, were installed by Erwin Lambert, and were destroyed before the camp was liberated. Today, the former concentration camp operates as a civic museum.[2]