Italy · Campania
Campagna concentration camp
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Background
Campagna internment camp, located in Campagna, a town near Salerno in Southern Italy, was an internment camp for Jews and foreigners established by Benito Mussolini in 1940. The first internees were 430 men captured in different parts of Italy. Most of them were Jewish refugees came from Germany, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Dalmatia, there were also some British citizens and a group of 40 French and Italian Jews. The number of inmates during the three years varied considerably, ranging between 230 (February 1941) and 150 (September 1943). The camp was never a concentration camp in the German sense of the term.
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Facility profile
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Region
Campania
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Death-row facility
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Data completeness
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Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q2118735)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Campagna concentration camp. Retrieved October 28, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/campagna-concentration-camp
"Campagna concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed October 28, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/campagna-concentration-camp.
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