Deportation Memorial in Borgo San Dalmazzo

(Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont)
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Credits: Comune di Borgo San Dalmazzo

Where are we?

We are at the Deportation Memorial in Borgo San Dalmazzo

Inaugurated in 2006, the Memorial consists of the silhouettes of the 20 survivors and of slabs bearing the names of 335 deportees who left the station and died in the Nazi camps.

The Polizeihaftlager (police detention camp) in Borgo San Dalmazzo was established by the Germans in the former Alpine barracks. Between 18th September and 21st November 1943, it functioned as a prison camp for Italians and foreigners. It held 349 prisoners of different nationalities, in particular Polish, French and German Jews. They were then transferred to Nice and later to the Drancy internment camp.

On 7th December 1943, 328 of them were sent to Auschwitz. San Dalmazzo was then reopened by the fascists of Salò who intended to use it for the Jews of the province. 26 people were interned there before being taken to Fossoli concentration camp. From there, they too were deported to the Polish camps on 22nd February 1944.

Today, no material trace of the camp remains. School buildings and social services can be found along its perimeter, with two epigraphs commemorating the detention and the departure of convoys to the extermination camps. On 30th April 2006, the Memorial was inaugurated, an installation depicting the reality of the Borgo San Dalmazzo camp. Above a concrete platform, large vertical letters give the destinations of the deportees, while on the ground 335 metal plates give the names of the victims. The very recent multimedia installation MEMO4345 (2021) accompanies visitors to the Memorial.

Photo: The former camp of Borgo San Dalmazzo

USEFUL INFORMATION

Facility or museum: yes

Website: www.comune.borgosandalmazzo.cn.it/archivio/pagine/MEMO4345.asp

Geographic location: Borgo San Dalmazzo (CN), Piedmont

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Scheda del campo di Borgo San Dalmazzo sul sito dell’ANED