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- POPR Camp Fossili #73. As the mfamily were of Maltese descent, and British subjects. They were interned and sent to the Fossoli prison camp in Italy, as Political prisoners. The Fossoli camp, near Carpi, 12.5 miles (20 km) north of Modena and 37 miles
CONC from Bologna, was instituted by the Italians in 1942 as a camp for British prisoners of war. It was handed over to the Germans in September 1943 and singled out as an ideal location for a fascist concentration camp because of its recently constr
CONC ucted stone walls and its strategic position on the northway railroad system. It was known as "War Prison Camp No. 73" and used for the transfer of deportees and earmarked to receive Jews, political prisoners, Italian soldiers and allied non-comm
CONC issioned officers.
DATE 12 DEC 1942
PLAC Fossoli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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