Internment

The Museo e Centro di Documentazione della Deportazione e Resistenza (Museum and Documentation Centre of Deportation and Resistance) in Prato presents the national and local history of resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45, and of internment and deportation by German and fascist authorities. The museum also commemorates the mass execution in Figline of 29 Italian partisans of the Brigata Buricchi by German forces under the command of Major Karl Laqua on September 6, 1944.

The Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah (National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah) presents the history of “the two thousand year-old Jewish presence in Italy.” Particular detail is given to the Italian Jewish experience in the years leading up to the Second World War, Italian persecution of Jews, and records of Italian Jews in the Shoah, including the changed circumstances resulting from the German occupation of Northern Italy in 1943.    

The Museo della Risiera di San Sabba (San Sabba Rice Mill Museum) is a national monument and museum: a former rice mill and factory in Trieste, which German occupation authorities employed as a detention and concentration camp from 1943-45.

The Museo Nazionale dell'Internamento (National Internment Museum) in Padova is a national museum presenting the history of Italian military, political, and racial internees and deportees in the German camps system from 1943-45. In particular, the museum commemorates the internment, daily life, and ultimate fate of Italian Military Internees: the approximately 800 000 members of the Italian military forcibly demobilized and interned by German forces following the Italian-Allied Armistice and the German occupation of Italy.    

The Mémorial de la Shoah de Drancy (Drancy Shoah Memorial) is located at the site of the former Camp de Drancy, a major internment, transit, and deportation site chiefly for Jewish peoples and operated by French and later German SS authorities from 1941 to 1944. Established in a large residential building built between 1931 and 1934 and designed as a modernist, urban living space with the name ‘Cité de la Muette’ (‘The Silent City’), the camp functioned as the most important transit point for French and foreign Jews taken in roundups and sent to death camps, usually Auschwitz.

The Mémorial de l’Internement et de la Déportation (Memorial of Internment and Deportation) in Compiègne is located on the site of the former Camp de Royallieu, an internment, transit, and deportation camp employed by German occupation authorities from June 1941 to August 1944. First constructed as a military barracks by the French Army in 1913, the site was repurposed following the occupation of France.