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The Prignano sulla Secchia (Modena) concentration camp
The camp in Prignano sulla Secchia, in the province of Modena, is the source of the most evident signs of the ethnically-based census and rounding up activities organised by prefects and police forces in response to arrest efforts targeted towards ‘gypsies’ throughout the kingdom. In 2010, the town’s municipal administration, in collaboration with the Them…
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The Bojano concentration camp
The former Saim tobacco factory, a few metres from the railway, was chosen as the site for a concentration camp in the summer of 1940. It was not immediately reserved for Roma and Sinti, although a large proportion of the deportees were ‘Gypsies’. A document about the camp indicated among other things that it could…
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The Agnone concentration camp
The Agnone camp is as present in the memory of the Roma and Sinti communities as it is absent and unknown to the historiography of the majority culture. Zlato Bruno Levak had narrated its events in ‘Lacio Drom’ in 1976, the magazine published by the Gypsy Study Centre and directed by Mirella Karpati: “In Italy…
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The concentration camp of Tossicia
The history of the Tossicia camp is linked to the project to purge Sinti and Roma in Istria. Rave Hudorovic had already spoken about it: ‘Then one day we were standing in a place, Rasuplje is its name, and the Italians arrived. We were many Sinti together, fifty people, maybe more. My wife’s whole family…