Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Rassegna Mensile di Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
66,3 (2000) 63-82
Keywords:
Ferramonti (Internment camp)
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
The building of the highway Salerno-Reggio Calabria in the 1960s destroyed most of the remains of the former internment camp Ferramonti di Tarsia, which was in operation between 1940-43. Most of the internees were Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism. Notes that the public was generally indifferent to the destruction of the camp site. Asserts that Italian society, in confronting its fascist past, focused on the resistance, contributing to the myth of a people united in the struggle against fascism. Only in the 1980s was there a call to take collective responsibility for the fascist misdeeds. In 1988, the Fondazione Internationale per l'Amicizia tra i Popoli was founded, with the aim of supporting research on the internments and deportations during the war, and to preserve the memory of the camp at Ferramonti. In 1999, the Commune of Tarsia declared Ferramonti a site of public interest.
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