The cid-torviscosa.it website was inaugurated in 2016 to promote the activities of the CID – Centro Informazione e Documentazione, then managed by the Torviscosa Municipality, and to publish the inventories and documents of the historical archives owned or managed by the Municipality. In 2020, however, the Municipality decided to discontinue this domain, which was subsequently purchased by Pro Torviscosa aps.

Currently, the site therefore collects the results of research projects or dissemination activities carried out by members and friends of the Pro Torviscosa aps. There are the images that constituted some exhibitions that are no longer on display or thematic stories based on archive documents collected over years of research. In all cases, the aim is to make this information and others that will be added in the future accessible to all.

The prisoner of war camp No. 107

Campo per prigionieri di guerra 107. Autore: Dino Tuniz

The prisoner of war camp No. 107

Prisoner of war camp No. 107 was built in Torviscosa at the request of a large Italian company, SNIA Viscosa, with the aim of using the prisoners in its agricultural activities. It became operational in 1942 and about a thousand New Zealand and South African prisoners enlisted in the British armies were interned there until the armistice in 1943. The war camp was decommissioned after the armistice but was immediately converted into a village to house SNIA workers. After the Second World War, it took the name Villaggio Roma.

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