The Risiera di San Sabba, known in Slovene as Rižarna, was the only Nazi camp on Italian territory with a crematorium. Officially a police detention camp, it operated in Trieste as a place to kill members of the resistance in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral and as a transit camp for Jews bound for the extermination camps, mainly Auschwitz.
Civilians captured in raids or destined for forced labour were also held here. Estimates of the number of people killed at San Sabba range from 2,000 to 5,000, most of them gassed with vehicle exhaust or bludgeoned to death, and some shot. Of the roughly 1,450 Jews who passed through the camp, only about 20 survived.
The site was declared a national monument in 1965 and became a museum in 1975. It now draws more than a hundred thousand visitors a year. It suits those seeking to understand the Holocaust and the Nazi repression of the resistance in northeastern Italy.
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