11 July 1940In Italy, it is decided that all ’suspected gypsies‘, especially those without Italian citizenship, can be transferred to a concentration camp (campo di concentramento) on the recommendation of the prefect.
1942
22 June 1942The first Roma are interned in the concentration camp (campo di concentramento) in Tossicia, Italy. Others follow in the next few months.
1943
8 September 1943After the fall of Benito Mussolini on 25 July 1943, the new government under Marshal Pietro Badoglio negotiates with the Allies. The armistice was signed on 3 September 1943 and announced on 8 September. On 10 September, the release of ‘nationals of an enemy state’ from the concentration camps (campi di concentramento) was decreed. Political internees and other ‘categories’ had already been released earlier. ‘Gypsies’ were disregarded and were therefore not yet released.
26 September 1943All those interned in the concentration camp (campo di concentramento) in Tossicia, Italy, flee the camp as it is no longer guarded.
2013
27 January 2013Sinti and Roma associations erect memorial plaques on the sites of the former concentration camps (campo di concentramento) in Tossicia and Agnone, Italy.
