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Ferramonti di Tarsia concentration camp

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  • Campo di concentramento di Ferramonti - panoramio.jpg

    Photo by Salvatore Migliari via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

  • Campo di Ferramonti incontro internati col rabbino Riccardo Pacifici.jpg

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  • Riccardo Pacifici celebra un matrimonio nel campo Ferramonti.jpg

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Background

Ferramonti di Tarsia, also known as Ferramonti, was an Italian internment camp used to intern political dissidents and ethnic minorities. It was located in the municipality of Tarsia, near Cosenza, in Calabria. It was the largest of the fifteen internment camps established by Benito Mussolini between June and September 1940. Over 3,800 Jews were imprisoned at the camp.

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