Rail transport in Italy Rail transport in Italy The Italian railway system is one of the most important parts of the infrastructure of Italy, with a total length of of which active lines are 16,723 km. The network has recently grown with the construction of the new high-speed rail network. Italy is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Italy is 83. "RFI" ("Rete Ferroviaria Italiana", Italian Rail Network), a state owned infrastructure manager which administers most of the Italian rail infrastructure. The total length of "RFI" active lines is , of which are double tracks. Lines
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