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Tepelenë Internment Camp

Tepelenë, Italy

Tepelenë Internment Camp

The Tepelenë Internment Camp or Tepelenë Camp was an internment camp in Tepelenë, Gjirokastër County, Albania, that was used by the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and modeled after the Soviet Union’s kolkhoz, in which convicts, fugitives, and deserters alike were imprisoned. A large number o

f children were also kept there, leading to high infant mortality. The camp was identified by two numbers, 4 and 6, and remained active from April 1949 to March 1954. The Tepelenë Camp earned international infamy, including a United States government report submitted to the United Nations in February 1955. Documentation, including the names of those interned, is scarce due to the poor-quality record-keeping of the time.

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