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This former concentration camp in Northern Italy served as a haven for wartime refugees after World War II.
Fossoli Camp, near Modena in Northern Italy, was originally established in 1942 by the fascist regime as a prisoner-of-war camp. After the surrender of Italy in September 1943, military prisoners were moved to Germany and the camp was enlarged and transformed into a massive concentration camp. It was meant to act as a transit camp, where Italian Jews were placed temporarily before they were moved to other concentration camps, mostly Auschwitz. The Italian Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi describes the departure of one of the trains from Fossoli to Auschwitz in his famous book If This Is a Man.
