 The historian Max Brod located a message sent by the British Red Cross on May 16, 1945, according to which M.M.was clubbed to death by a German soldier, shortly after being detained..

Other prominent people interned in San Donato Val Comino were the silent film actress Grete Berger, the Czech publisher Clara Babab in Buchsbaum, and Dr. Tenenbaum and his wife Urusla Tenenbaum and child, the stage director Enrico Lewi and his wife the performer Gabrielle Kaiser and their two children.San Donato is currently twinned with