The village of Vinchiaturo is located in the central-southern Apennines, Italy, about 15 kilometres from the town of Campobasso. It was the site of a concentration camp (campo di concentramento) which went into operation at the end of August 1940. The camp was housed in a building in the centre of the village with nine bedrooms, a kitchen with a dining room, two toilets and two washbasins.
It was used exclusively as a women’s camp and accommodated 40 to 50 internees. A Red Cross delegate who visited the camp in June 1943 found the internees suffering from overcrowding and inadequate rations. After 10 September 1943, all internees were released on the orders of Marshal Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956), head of the provisional government.
The Sintiza Olga Adel (1893–unknown), of French nationality, is recorded in the lists of internees. She was arrested in Bergamo in August 1940 and was imprisoned in Vinchiaturo from November 1940 until the summer of 1943. The Romni Rosina Hudorovich (1913–unknown), born in Udine, is also named. She was interned in Vinchiaturo from 24 September 1940 and applied to be transferred to the Agnone camp, where she arrived on 9 May 1943.
On 27 January 2023, a memorial plaque was installed in the former concentration camp.
