Nella Risiera di San Sabba, l'unico campo di concentramento in Italia con forno crematorio

According to testimonies, nearly 3,000 people were burned at the Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste, approximately 50 victims per day, between February 1944, when the crematorium was opened, and April 1945. This concentration camp, unparalleled in Italy, also served as a transit camp for Jews rounded up from the entire Adriatic coast, as well as from Veneto and Yugoslavia, and quartered here awaiting deportation to the extermination camps in Poland. Numerous partisans who participated in the Slovenian, Croatian, and Italian Resistance movements were also imprisoned at the Risiera. "However, nothing was known about this concentration camp for many years because," says historian Tristano Matta, "its memory has had a very turbulent history. Immediately after the war, the memory of this concentration camp remained only within partisan organizations, among the families of those who had passed through the concentration camp, and within the local left-wing community. This was because the city had difficulty coming to terms with all this. Furthermore, it must not be forgotten that from 1945 to 1954, the Anglo-American military government, which temporarily governed this area, had no interest in using this type of memory, as it would have served the interests of those who opposed the various solutions proposed for these territories." http://youmedia.fanpage.it/video/aa/V...