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Encyclopedia > Gonars
Comune di Gonars

Municipal coat of arms
Country Flag of Italy Italy
Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Province Udine (UD)
Mayor Ivan Cignola
Elevation 21 m
Area 19.9 km²
Population
 - Total (as of 2004) 4,637
 - Density 233/km²
Time zone CET, UTC+1
Coordinates 45°54′N, 13°14′E
Gentilic Gonaresi
Dialing code 0432
Postal code 33050
Frazioni Ontagnano, Fauglis, Bordiga
Patron Saint Canziano
 - Day May 30
Website: comune.gonars.ud.it

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History

World War II

On February 23, 1942 the fascist regime established a concentration camp in the town, mostly for prisoners from present day Slovenia and Croatia. The first transport of 5343 internees (1643 of whom were children) arrived two days later from the Province of Ljubljana and from the Rab camp and the camp in Monigo near Treviso. February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ...   (IPA: ) is the capital and largest city in Slovenia. ... The Rab concentration camp was established during World War II in July 1942, when the Italians established a concentration camp near the village of Kampor on the island of Rab. ... Treviso is a town in the Veneto region of Italy. ...


The camp was disbanded on September 8, 1943, immediately after Italian capitulation. Every effort was made to erase any evidence of this black spot of Italian history. The camp's buildings were destroyed, the materials were used to build a nearby kindergarten and the site was turned into a meadow. Only in 1973 a sacrarium was created by sculptor Miodrag Živković at the town's cemetery. Remains of 453 Slovenian and Croatian victims were transferred into its two underground crypts. It is believed that at least 50 additional persons died in the camp due to starvation and torture. Apart from the sacrarium no other evidence of the camp remains and even many locals are unaware it. September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... A kindergarten classroom in Afghanistan. ... A meadow is a habitat of rolling or flat terrain where grasses predominate. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... A Sacrarium is a special basin that is connected by a pipe directly to the ground. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... Crypt is also a commonly used name of water trumpets, aquatic plants. ... A female child during the Nigerian-Biafran war of the late 1960s, shown suffering the effects of severe hunger and malnutrition. ... Torture is defined by the United Nations Convention Against Torture as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he...


Further reading

  • Alessandra Kersevan, Un campo di concentramento fascista. Gonars 1942-1943., Kappa Vu Edizioni, Udine, 2003

External links

  • Official site of the concentration camp Memorial
  • An article from Romacivica.net (Italian)


 
 

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