 Irredentist Slavic and Italian communists were interned and after September 8, 1943 it also served as a concentration camp for Jews.In June 1940 the "convent of the Fathers of Celestini Abbey" (owned by the City of Corropoli, about a mile away from the village) was approved as a location for the camp.Between 1940 and 1943, the Commissioners of Public Safety