Risiera di San Saba
Shortly after their arrival in Trieste, the Germans converted the rice-husking plant in the San Sabba district (built 1913) into a collection point for transports to camps in Germany and a warehouse for plundered goods. In April 1944 a crematorium oven began operating here and continued its terrible work for a year. The exact number of victims will probably never be known, but it is estimated that around 3,000 people died here – Slovenes, Croats, Italians and Jews who collaborated with the resistance movement.
Courtyard, with the visible remains of the crematorium.
Entrance to a cell.
Trieste, 1944. Standing from left to right: SS leader Odilo Globočnik, Gauleiter Friedrich Rainer and General Ludwig Kübler, commander of the Wehrmacht in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral.
Names of prisoners written on the doors and walls of the cells.
Names of prisoners written on the doors and walls of the cells.
Stick used to kill or stun victims before they were dragged to the gas chamber or crematorium oven.
