18 July 1944: The director communicates the emptying of the Vo’ Vecchio camp

On the day following the Jews departure from Villa Venier, Vo’ Vecchio Concentration Camp, Maresciallo Salvatore Lepore typewrote an official notice for the Police Headquarters in Padua, with the following information:

• The SS had officially taken away the Jewish prisoners from the Camp at approximately 2 pm on the previous day;
• The two missing Jews –Elia Gesses and Enzo Franco- had been handed down afterwards;
• Sara Gesses ,who had been hidden at the arrival of the SS and apparently escaped them, was finally taken away
• An inventory of what had remained in the Camp and now belonged to the State is needed

Forty-seven Jews from Padua were deported to Auschwitz in July 1944.

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