Many prisoners were transferred to this camp from another Italian concentration camp, the Rab concentration camp, which served as equivalent of the final solution in Mario Roatta's ethnic cleansing policy against ethnic Slovenes from the Italian-annexed Province of Ljubljana and Croats from Gorski Kotar, in accord with the racist 1920s speech by Benito Mussolini, along with other Italian war crimes committed on the Italian-annexed territories of Yugoslavia: When dealing with such a race as Slavic – inferior and barbarian – we must not pursue the carrot, but the stick policy.... We should not be afraid of new victims....

The Italian border should run across the Brenner Pass, Monte Nevoso and the Dinaric Alps....

Only in 1973 was a memorial created by the sculptor Miodrag Živković at the town's cemetery.

The 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.