Risiera di San Sabba explained

Risiera di San Sabba
Location Map:Italy
Map Relief:yes
Location:Trieste, Italian Social Republic
Coordinates:45.6208°N 13.7892°W
Operated By:SS
Prisoner Type:Italian Political prisoners, Italian Jews, Yugoslavian Resistance fighters and Yugoslavian civilians (primarily Slovenes and Croats)
Killed:3,000–5,000
Notable Inmates:Boris Pahor

Risiera di San Sabba (Slovenian: 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]

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]

Background

The building was erected in 1913 and first used as a rice-husking facility (hence the name Risiera). During World War II, German occupation forces in Trieste used the building to transport, detain and exterminate prisoners. Many occupants of Risiera di San Sabba were transported to the German Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Occupied Poland.[3] Historians estimate that over 3,000 people were killed at the Risiera camp and thousands more imprisoned and transported elsewhere. The majority of prisoners came from Friuli, the Julian March and the Province of Ljubljana.

Boris Pahor was also held at the camp before being transported to the concentration camps of Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof.

After the war, the camp served as a refugee camp and transit point for the mass exodus of soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army and their families who were loyal to King Peter II and the 1950s for many people, especially ethnic Italians fleeing former Italian territory in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[4] [5] [6]

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Notes and References

  1. http://moked.it/triestebraica/la-storia/la-risiera-di-san-sabba/ La Risiera di San Sabba. Le Deportazioni, La Liberazione.
  2. Web site: Risiera di San Sabba. History and Museum. . International Committee of the Nazi Lager of Risiera di San Sabba, Trieste . 2009 . 1 May 2015 . The Museum . 1–7 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120907014927/http://www.retecivica.trieste.it/triestecultura/new/musei/risiera_san_sabba/brochure/Risiera%20inglese%20per%20e-brochure.pdf . September 7, 2012 .
  3. Risiera di San Sabba. History and Museum. . International Committee of the Nazi Lager of Risiera di San Sabba, Trieste . With Selected Bibliography. . 2009 . 1 May 2015 . The Museum . 1–7 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120907014927/http://www.retecivica.trieste.it/triestecultura/new/musei/risiera_san_sabba/brochure/Risiera%20inglese%20per%20e-brochure.pdf . September 7, 2012 .
  4. News: Floreak . Michael . Italian Cooking Master Shares Stories, Recipes . The Boston Globe . January 20, 2016 . Boston, MA . G9 . April 1, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  5. Book: Pamela Ballinger . Weldes . Jutta . Laffey . Mark . Gusterson . Hugh . Duvall . Raymond . Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger . 1999 . University of Minnesota Press . Minneapolis . 83 . The Politics of the Past: Redefining Insecurity along the 'World's Most Open Border'.
  6. Book: John Foot . Baratieri . Daniela . Edele . Mark . Finaldi . Giuseppe . Totalitarian Dictatorship: New Histories . 2013 . Routledge . New York . 242 . Memories of an Exodus: Istria, Fiume, Dalmatia, Trieste, Italy, 1943–2010.