The camps

Established: 19 dicembre 1938 Location: 30 km South-East of Amburgo One of the most terrible concentration camps, where tens of thousands of deportees perished The dramatic destiny of the 850 Italians at Neuengamme The difficult research work in reconstructing the history of the Italian presence, pulverized in circa 80 sub-camps. by Alberto Berti The concentration […]

Established: 2 August 1940 Location: approximately 60 Km from Breslavia This camp, which takes its name from the nearby village of Gross Rosen, Rogoznica in Polish, was originally instituted as a satellite camp to the Concentration Camp KZ Sachsenhausen, but became a principal and autonomous camp on the first of May 1941. The camp was […]

Established: 10 September  1943 Location: 20 Km from Nordhausen Gherardo Del Nista – Memoir of Dora Dora was originally a detached camp, a satellite dependent upon Buchenwald. It was transformed into an autonomous camp only in the final years of the war, on the first of November 1944. The constitution of Dora and of its […]

We provide you with some general indication about Italian deportees transports towards Mauthausen, as the results of Italo Tibaldi research. The transport number coincide with the one indicated beside every name reported in “Italian Deportees List deportated to Mauthausen“, edit by Italo Tibaldi, Aned-Research.   Transport nr. 3 Transport nr. 5 Transport nr. 13 Transport […]

At Mauthausen, the gas chamber played an important role in the operations of annihilation. The gas known as Zyklon-B was utilized for the first time in May of 1942, when the SS eliminated 208 Soviet prisoners of war with this system. In the course of three years approximately 5,000 deportees where killed in the gas […]

They gathered us at nightfall: “You will be sent to work in Germany” The following is a testimony by Alba Valech Capozzi, who was present at Fossoli in the days of the massacre at the firing range of the Cibeno. This passage is from the very rare book,”A 24029″ by Alba Valech Capozzi, originally published […]

Established: 20 october 1943 Location:Trieste After the establishment of the fascist Republic of Salo in September 1943, the new regime handed control of frontier territories including Fiume, Trieste and Udine with their hinterlands in Istria and Friuli over to the Nazis. The Nazis proceeded to create their own administration for these areas, which they called […]

THE MEANING OF THIS RESEARCH by Italo Tibaldi This list, begun as far back as 1955, and still to this day incomplete, is the temporary result of the attentive consultation of all of the retraceable sources, both Italian and foreign, which refer to Nazi extermination and elimination camps, as well as to the Italian deportation […]

Nominative alphabetical lists of the Italian Deportees in some of the principal Nazi Lagers After more than fifty years from the conclusion of the Second World War, ANED is at last able to publish the nominative lists (sometimes quite partial) of the Italian deportees at Auschwitz Bergen Belsen Bolzano Buchenwald Dachau Dora Flossenburg Gross Rosen […]

The testimony of Nella Mascagni, ex deportee in the Lager “For years I have relived the nightmare of the torture in those cells” Those are experiences that one never forgets, they come to life incessantly in every single detail, actually, in even the slightest nuance that would otherwise go unnoticed. There was killing, although it […]