Gonars () is a town and (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeastern Italy. It is located near Palmanova.
On 23 February 1942, the Fascist regime established a concentration camp in the town, mostly for prisoners from what is now Slovenia and Croatia. The first transport of 5,343 internees (1,643 of whom were children) arrived two days later from the Province of Ljubljana and from the Rab camp and the camp at Monigo near Treviso.
The camp was disbanded on 8 September 1943, immediately after the Italian capitulation. Every effort was made to erase any evidence of it. The camp's buildings were destroyed, the materials were used to build a nearby preschool, and the site was turned into a meadow. Only in 1973 was a memorial created by the sculptor Miodrag à ½ivkoviàat 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. Apart from the memorial, no other evidence of the camp remains and even many locals are unaware of it.
Among the people interned in the camp were the engineer Aleà ¡ Strojnik, writer Vitomil Zupan, poets Alojz Gradnik and France BalantiÃÂ, historians Bogo Grafenauer and Vasilij Melik, sculptor Jakob Savinà ¡ek, playwright and essayist Bojan à  tih, journalist Ernest Petrin, and politicians Anton Vratuà ¡a, Boris Kraigher, and France BuÃÂar.