The aim of the project is to create a centre, the 'House of Remembrance', in which to collect documentary material, maintain contacts and welcome visitors, to educate young people and future generations in the values of peace, democracy and solidarity.

This does not require significant rebuilding work, but only the creation of a link between the place as it appears today and its use in the recent past.

For this reason we are interested in making contact:

• with people who have a story to tell or some connection with the history of the camp;
• with people who had a direct experience of life in the camp as prisoners or guards;
• with people who know that relatives of theirs had a direct experience of life in the camp.

For this reason we are looking for:

• texts in all languages;
• images (photos, drawings);
• objects.

All this material will be used to create a permanent exhibition.

The international dimension of the 'House of Remembrance' is due to the enormous number of people who passed through the Camp in Servigliano. The Camp was built at the beginning of the twentieth century to accommodate about 10,000 prisoners. Halved in size in the Fascist period, it was used to hold up to 5,000 prisoners in the Second World War. Finally, it became a reception centre for refugees.

Taking this into account, we can make a reliable estimate of the number of people involved:

• between 40,000 and 50,000 refugees who passed through Servigliano in the decade from 1945 to 1955;
• 10,000 prisoners during the First World War;
• 20,000 prisoners during the Second World War (3,000 places in continual rotation).

It would therefore not be unrealistic to think that many thousands of people felt the earth of the Camp under their feet and spent many long days - if not years - there, and probably still remember those days with a mixture of excitement and pain. Certainly many of them are no longer with us - too much time has passed - but there must be many still alive who would love to remember and revisit the place they came to know in those sad times. Some English and American former prisoners already return to retrace their steps, to visit what remains of the Camp, to re-establish a relationship with the people of Servigliano or of the villages around who helped them in their moment of need.