Trieste

Risiera di San Sabba

  Ratto della Pileria 43      +39 040 82 62 02     more than a year ago

Originally built in 1913 as a rice husking facility, this large red brick structure was transformed by fascists in the Second World War into a concentration camp. The Nazis supposedly executed thousands here (although reported actual numbers vary), and shipped many more off to Auschwitz. At the end of the war and it was closed by Yugoslav partisans liberating the city, and then served as a refugee camp for Italians fleeing Yugoslavia. The museum there now is reachable by taking bus 8 from the main train station.

Email

risierasansabba@comune.trieste.it

Open

Open 09:00-19:00.

Price/Additional Info

Admission free.

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04.12.2021
D.L.

The refugee camp was for numerous nationalities, not just for Italians fleeing Yugoslavia. Majority of refugees were Russians, Croats, Serbs, Romanians, Bulgarians, Czechs, to name just a few.
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