From June 6th to September 28th
Open Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays: 9:00–12:00 | 16:00–19:00
Free admission
Just a few kilometres from the centre of Carpi there are still visible traces of a sorting and transit camp, used in 1944 by the SS as prelude to the concentration and extermination camps of the Reich.
A prisoners’ barrack, inside the camp, has been completely recovered and then converted in a location for cultural activities dedicated to the memory and deportation themes. An area has been set up as a permanent exhibition on the history of this camp. During the 7 months of the camp use, 8 convoys of prisoners left Carpi railroad station and 5 of them were directed to Auschwitz, for a total of 5000 people deported. Inside the station a memorial plaque commemorates those prisoners: among them Primo Levi who left for Auschwitz on 22th February 1944. The camp and the Monument Museum are managed by Fossoli Foundation which was created in 1996 with the aim of spreading historic memory and promoting historical-documentary research on Fossoli camp.
