Research Catalog

Title

The heritage of a transit camp : Fossoli: history, memory, aesthetics / edited by Matteo Cassani Simonetti, Roberta Mira and Daniele Salerno.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021]

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Additional Authors

• Cassani Simonetti, Matteo
• Mira, Roberta, 1973-
• Salerno, Daniele, 1980-

Description

xxiv, 324 pages : illustrations, plans; 23 cm.

Summary

"The former camp of Fossoli in the North of Italy was established in 1942 by the Royal Italian Army as a camp for prisoners of war, later being a Nazi-Fascist concentration and transit camp for political opponents, Jews and forced labourers; after the war it became a Catholic community for orphans and a camp for refugees from the former Italian territories of Istria until 1970. A complex system of memory and heritage stemmed from the legacy of the former camp: its remains, the Museum and Monument to the Political and Racial Deportee by architects BBPR and the synagogues of Carpi. The Fondazione Fossoli, created in Carpi in 1996, manages this legacy with the purpose of preserving and transmitting the historical memory of the Fossoli camp. Linking together the history of the Holocaust, of the Resistance to Nazi-Fascism and of the political and civic commitment that inspired the birth of the Italian Republic after the dictatorship and the war, Fossoli lies at the very core of Italy's contemporary cultural memory. The essays in this volume analyse, from different disciplinary perspectives, the material and immaterial heritage that constitutes today a rich and articulated memorial system"--

Series Statement

Cultural memories, 2235-2325 ; vol. 16

Uniform Title

Cultural memories ; v. 16.

Alternative Title

Fossoli: history, memory, aesthetics

Subject

• Fossoli di Carpi (Concentration camp) > History
• Fossoli di Carpi (Prisoner of war camp : 1942-1943)
• Museo monumento al deportato politico e razziale (Carpi, Italy) > History
• Fossoli di Carpi (Concentration camp)
• Museo monumento al deportato politico e razziale (Carpi, Italy)
• 1900-1999
• World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Italy > Carpi
• Prisoners of war > Italy > Carpi > History > 20th century
• Prisoners of war > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Jews > Persecutions > Italy
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Italy
• Collective memory > Italy > Carpi
• Collective memory
• Nazi concentration camps
• Jews > Persecutions
• Prisoners of war
• Carpi (Italy) > History > 20th century
• Great Britain
• Italy
• Italy > Carpi

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes index.

Call Number

JFE 21-8843

ISBN

• 9781789979046
• 1789979048

LCCN

2021001317

OCLC

1237652630

Title

The heritage of a transit camp : Fossoli: history, memory, aesthetics / edited by Matteo Cassani Simonetti, Roberta Mira and Daniele Salerno.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cultural memories, 2235-2325 ; vol. 16

Cultural memories ; v. 16.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Cassani Simonetti, Matteo, editor.

Mira, Roberta, 1973- editor.

Salerno, Daniele, 1980- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Heritage of a transit camp Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021] 9781789979053 (DLC) 2021001318

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8843