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Sacrifice and Hospitality, Committee Conference, February 10th
The February 10th Committee, in conjunction with its national assembly, is organizing, with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, the conference on Sunday 15th March in the "Sala Giulia" of Villa Romanazzi Carducci in via Giuseppe Capruzzi 326 in Bari
“Sacrifice and Hospitality”
The Southern Martyrs of the Foibe
and the welcome of the Exiles
from the Eastern Border of Italy
in the Southern Regions
The conference has two objectives:
– remember the southerners who, for work reasons (carabinieri, financial police, police officers, state employees, teachers, etc.), were in Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia between 1943 and 1945 and were victims of the foibe or died in the communist extermination camps in Yugoslavia;
– to recall the reception of refugees from Italy's eastern border in the regions of southern Italy.
9.30 am, opening of the conference
Coordinated by Francesco De Palo, journalist;
Greetings from the National President of C10F, Dr. Silvano Olmi;
Greetings from the Mayor of Bari;
Greetings from the President of the Regional Council of Puglia;
Greetings from the President of the Puglia Region;
Greeting from a representative of the National Government.
Historical interventions
Lawyer Ivan D'Addario, University of Bari Aldo Moro, “General framework of historical events”;
Prof. Vito Fumarola, teacher and writer, “The reception of refugees in Taranto”;
Dr. Silvano Olmi, journalist and writer, “The Lopapas, the story of a Taranto family from Fiume to Turin”;
Dr. Fabio Lo Bono, journalist, writer, historian, director of the Termini Imerese civic museum, “The reception of exiles in Sicily”;
Dr. Gaetano Ruocco, National President of ANSI, “Non-commissioned officers from Southern Italy in the drama of the eastern border”;
Carlo Moramarco, “Camp 65 for Exiles in Altamura”;
Toni Capuozzo, writer, journalist and war correspondent;
Dr. Adriano Buzzanca, Director of the Bari State Archives-BAT, the exhibition on “The reception of Julian-Dalmatian refugees in the Bari area”;
Arch. Massimiliano Tita, “The Exhibition of the Fiume, Dalmatian and Istrian Exiles (MEDIF) at the Vittoriano in Rome”;
Senator Roberto Menia, “The Importance of Remembrance Even in Southern Italy”;
12:30 p.m., Conclusions by the National President of the February 10th Committee, Dr. Silvano Olmi.
