Borgo San Dalmazzo concentration camp

Borgo San Dalmazzo was an internment camp operated by Nazi Germany in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy.

Borgo San Dalmazzo
Transit camp
Memorial of the deportation of the Jews in Borgo San Dalmazzo
Location of Borgo San Dalmazzo within Northern Italy
Other namesPolizeihaftlager Borgo San Dalmazzo
LocationBorgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy
Operated byNazi Germany (1943)
Italian Social Republic (1943–44)
Original useMilitary barracks
Operational1943–1944
InmatesJewish refugees
Number of inmatesGerman period: 349
Italian period: 26

The camp operated under German control from September to November 1943 and, following that, under the control of the Italian Social Republic from December 1943 to February 1944. Approximately 375 Jewish Italians and 349 refugees from other countries (119 from Poland as well as refugees from France, the Soviet Union, Germany, Austria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Greece), were held at Borgo San Dalmazzo until deported to Auschwitz and other German camps where all but a few were murdered.

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