History of rail transport in Italy 500, the latter capable of speed up to 300 km/h. Works on the high-speed lines continued, the Rome-Naples being opened in 2005. Other lines are under construction. In 2000 FS became a holding company which controls various companies, among which is Trenitalia, a limited society. The various services were divided into three different companies for long range (FS Divisione Passeggeri), local range (FS Regionale) and freight (FS Cargo), while numerous other sub-companies were also created. Property of the railroad was assigned to RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana) from 2001 (an FS company as well). Today railways in Italy continue to experience
The Holocaust in Italy Italy were arrested by the Italian police. A few hundred Jews from Libya, an Italian colony before the war, who had been deported to mainland Italy in 1942, were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp instead. Most of them held British and French citizenship and most survived the war. Altogether, almost 8,600 Jews from Italy and Italian-controlled areas in France and Greece were deported to Auschwitz; all but 1,000 were murdered. A further 300 Jews were shot or died of other causes in transit camps in Italy. Of those executed in Italy, almost half were killed at the Ardeatine massacre in