Camps

A brief description of the camps of the Third Reich and Fascist Italy where prisoners from Magnesia were held between 1941 and 1945, and for which information has been found. The camps are divided into four categories:

  • Prisoner-of-war camps
  • Concentration/labor camps
  • Concentration and extermination camps
  • Camps in fascist Italy
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Camps in fascist Italy
During the Italian Occupation (1941–1943), some Greek resistance fighters were sent to camps in fascist Italy, having been sentenced to harsh prison terms by Italian military courts in Greece. Since 1926, Mussolini’s regime had been banishing political opponents to places of exile within Italy’s borders. Concentration camps and prisoner-of-war camps were established only with the outbreak of World War II, with approximately 50 camps, located mainly in central and southern Italy. After Italy’s surrender (September 8, 1943), these came under German control. Prisoners who were unable to escape were sent to concentration camps in the Third Reich, while Jews were sent to death camps. For individual camps, see Bari, Ferramonti di Tarsia, Fiume, Fossoli, Sulmona.

USHMΜ, Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, vol. III (2018), 391–393
Celle
Subcamp of: Neuengamme
Category: Concentration/labour camp

A city in northern Germany near Hanover (Lower Saxony). On April 7–8, 1945, more than 3,000 prisoners being transported by train from the Neuengamme camp were hit by an Allied bombing raid at the city’s train station, and most were killed. Those who survived were murdered by the SS and German residents. Many Greek forced-labourers gathered in Celle after the liberation to organize their return home.

Neuengamme Camp Memorial Site