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The Vergarolla Massacre in Istria
There is a large plaque on the Hill of San Giusto in Trieste. It is large because it contains the names of 64 people killed in the Vergarolla massacre in Pola, Istria, which occurred on August 18, 1946. A third of those names are children. …
Speech by the President of the Republic 10.02.2016 – Remembrance Day
Our identity as a democratic and European country could not accept that important pages of its history be torn away, leaving our fellow citizens on the "eastern border" in a state of moral abandonment. Re-establishing historical truth and cultivating memory ...
Remembrance Day 2016, the dignity of the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles
In a period in which the migration emergency and the plight of civilians caught up in wars are of dramatic relevance, the Day of Remembrance takes on particular importance, since it would first of all be right to say that the oblivion that has affected the complex story of the …
«We, Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, and the partisans: it is the truth that reconciles»
Dear Editor, I am writing to you regarding Lucia Bellaspiga's article (in "Avvenire," Sunday, January 17, 2016) on the important seminar promoted by the ANPI (National Association of Italian Partisans) regarding "The Dramatic Situation of the Eastern Borders." The announcement of this event had caused some concern ...
Press release 20 October 2015
His Excellency the President of the Republic, Hon. Sergio Mattarella, Quirinale Palace, Rome, Mr. President, We have learned with bitterness – from reading Aldo Cazzullo's article in the «Corriere della Sera» of October 11th – of the incredible state of …
