Italy · Avezzano
Avezzano concentration camp
Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date. Always verify with primary sources before acting on any figure. See data sources.
For families
How to send mail, money, and visit Avezzano concentration camp
Step-by-step guidance using the Italy system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
Gallery
From Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA where not otherwise stated).
Photo by Unknown authorUnknown author via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Marica Massaro via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photo by Marica Massaro via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photo by Marica Massaro via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photo by Unknown authorUnknown author via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Marica Massaro via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photo by Marica Massaro via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photo by Marica Massaro via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Background
Avezzano concentration camp was an Italian assembly and detention camp set up in 1916 in Avezzano, Abruzzo, during World War I, immediately after the 1915 Marsica earthquake that almost completely destroyed it, decimating the population. The camp was reserved to about 15,000 prisoners from the Austro-Hungarian army, mainly of Czech–Slovak, Polish, German, and Hungarian nationalities; Romanians, who were gathered in the Romanian Legion of Italy by the end of the conflict, had a garrison and a training camp in Avezzano. Mostly abandoned in 1920, a sector was reused in World War II to house British, Indian and New Zealand prisoners of war.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
—
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1916
Closed 1945
Facility profile
Operator
Ministero della Giustizia
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1916
Region
Avezzano
Security level
—
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
38%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.