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Gonars

Coordinates: 45°54′N 13°14′E / 45.900°N 13.233°E / 45.900; 13.233
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Gonars
Comune
Comune di Gonars
Location of Gonars
Map
Gonars is located in Italy
Gonars
Gonars
Location of Gonars in Italy
Gonars is located in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Gonars
Gonars
Gonars (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
Coordinates: 45°54′N 13°14′E / 45.900°N 13.233°E / 45.900; 13.233
CountryItaly
RegionFriuli-Venezia Giulia
FrazioniOntagnano, Fauglis, Bordiga, Mulini
Government
 • MayorIvan Diego Boemo
Area
[1]
 • Total19.9 km2 (7.7 sq mi)
Elevation
21 m (69 ft)
Population
 (31 August 2017)[2]
 • Total4,729
 • Density240/km2 (620/sq mi)
DemonymGonaresi
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
33050
Dialing code0432
Patron saintSaint Canziano
Saint dayMay 30
WebsiteOfficial website

Gonars (Template:Lang-fur) is a town and comune near Palmanova in Friuli, northeastern Italy.

History

World War II

See also: Gonars concentration camp

On 23 February 1942 the fascist regime established a concentration camp in the town, mostly for prisoners from present day Slovenia and Croatia. The first transport of 5343 internees (1643 of whom were children) arrived two days later from the Province of Ljubljana and from the Rab camp and the camp in Monigo near Treviso.

The camp was disbanded on 8 September 1943, immediately after Italian capitulation. Every effort was made to erase any evidence of this black spot of Italian history. The camp's buildings were destroyed, the materials were used to build a nearby kindergarten and the site was turned into a meadow. Only in 1973 a sacrarium was created by sculptor Miodrag Živković at the town's cemetery. Remains of 453 Slovenian and Croatian victims were transferred into its two underground crypts. It is believed that at least 50 additional persons died in the camp due to starvation and torture. Apart from the sacrarium no other evidence of the camp remains and even many locals are unaware about it.

Among the people interned in the camp were scientist Aleš Strojnik, writer Vitomil Zupan, poets Alojz Gradnik and France Balantič, historians Bogo Grafenauer and Vasilij Melik, sculptor Jakob Savinšek, playwright and essayist Bojan Štih, journalist Ernest Petrin, and politicians Anton Vratuša, Boris Kraigher and France Bučar.

Twin cities

Further reading

  • Alessandra Kersevan, Un campo di concentramento fascista. Gonars 1942-1943., Kappa Vu Edizioni, Udine, 2003

References

  1. ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.




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