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View into the central courtyard of the Risiera di San Sabba The Risiera was constructed in 1913 as a rice-husking factory in San Sabba on the outskirts of Trieste, Italy. In 1943, German occupation forces converted the factory into a prison camp.

Central courtyard of the Risiera di San Sabba near Trieste, Italy. The present museum was designed by Romano Boico and opened in 1975. The architect described his plans in a brochure available at the memorial. "The Risiera, half destroyed by the fleeing Nazis, was squalid, like its surroundings. I thought that this total squalor could rise as a symbol and itself become a monument. I decided to remove and restore rather than add. After removing the ruined buildings I demarcated the context with 11-metre high concrete walls arranged so as to form a disquieting entrance on the same spot as the existing entrance. The walled courtyard is intended as on open-air non-denominational basilica. The building where prisoners were kept was completely emptied and the load-bearing wooden structures pared down as much as seemed necessary. The seventeen cells and the death cell are unchanged. In the central building, level with the courtyard, is the Museum of the Resistance, minimal but alive. Above the Museum, the rooms of the Deportees' Association. In the courtyard is a terrible path of steel slightly sunkenдhe trace of the oven, the smoke channel and the base of the chimney."

A metal channel marks the former locaton of the passage thet connected the crematorium oven with the chimney at the Risiera di San Sabba near Trieste, Italy.

A metal sculpture marks the former location of the crematorium chimney.

Memorial plaques at the Risiera di San Sabba.

Memorial plaques at the Risiera di San Sabba.

Memorial sculpture in the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba.

Detail of memorial sculpture in the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba.

Detail of memorial sculpture in the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba.

Detail of memorial sculpture in the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba.

Detail of memorial sculpture silhouetted against the glass ceiling of the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba

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	View into the central courtyard of the Risiera di San Sabba The Risiera was constructed in 1913 as a rice-husking factory in San Sabba on the outskirts of Trieste, Italy. In 1943, German occupation forces converted the factory into a prison camp.
	Central courtyard of the Risiera di San Sabba near Trieste, Italy. The present museum was designed by Romano Boico and opened in 1975. The architect described his plans in a brochure available at the memorial. "The Risiera, half destroyed by the fleeing Nazis, was squalid, like its surroundings. I thought that this total squalor could rise as a symbol and itself become a monument. I decided to remove and restore rather than add. After removing the ruined buildings I demarcated the context with 11-metre high concrete walls arranged so as to form a disquieting entrance on the same spot as the existing entrance. The walled courtyard is intended as on open-air non-denominational basilica. The building where prisoners were kept was completely emptied and the load-bearing wooden structures pared down as much as seemed necessary. The seventeen cells and the death cell are unchanged. In the central building, level with the courtyard, is the Museum of the Resistance, minimal but alive. Above the Museum, the rooms of the Deportees' Association. In the courtyard is a terrible path of steel slightly sunkenдhe trace of the oven, the smoke channel and the base of the chimney."
	A metal channel marks the former locaton of the passage thet connected the crematorium oven with the chimney at the Risiera di San Sabba near Trieste, Italy.
	A metal sculpture marks the former location of the crematorium chimney.
	Memorial plaques at the Risiera di San Sabba.
	Memorial plaques at the Risiera di San Sabba.
	Memorial sculpture in the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba.
	Detail of memorial sculpture in the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba.
	Detail of memorial sculpture in the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba.
	Detail of memorial sculpture in the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba.
	Detail of memorial sculpture silhouetted against the glass ceiling of the commemoration room at the Risiera di San Sabba