The events of the 2023 edition of La Bancarella, the Eastern Adriatic Book Fair, continue. Organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian Culture, this year's event is part of Librixia, the Brescia Book and Culture Fair. The fruitful collaboration between the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the publishing house Sestante has led to publications on the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus in Lombardy and has now also enabled the synergistic creation of a book stand at Librixia, where the main associations of the Adriatic diaspora have been able to display their most recent book production, precisely in the year in which Brescia is jointly the Italian Capital of Culture with Bergamo.

In the prestigious setting of Librixia, another step forward is being taken in the initiatives Adriatic exiles have been able to implement thanks to their decades-long collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Merit. On Wednesday, September 27, the MIM is organizing a meeting at 10:00 a.m. at the Agrobresciano Arena in Piazza della Vittoria as part of the "A Library in Every School" project. Following the meeting, at 11:00 a.m., Marino Micich will present the book " Foibe, Exodus, Memory. The Long Drama of Italianness in the Lands of the Eastern Adriatic" (Aracne Editore, Rome 2023).

This is a volume created by Micich together with Pier Luigi Guiducci, Emiliano Loria and Gianni Stelli in which the massacres of Italians that took place in Venezia Giulia, Carnaro and Dalmatia in the aftermath of the Second World War and the exodus of the Julian-Dalmatians from their lands of origin, which was in some way the consequence of that violence, are analyzed. The tragedy of the foibe emerges as a particular case of that preventive purge that characterized the rise to power of the communist regimes during the twentieth century and of which the systematic persecution of religion is an essential aspect. The story of the exodus and reception in Italy is retraced in its motivations and its many implications, and through the direct testimonies of refugees from Istria, Fiume and Zara.

Stelli in particular provides an analysis of the foibe in his contribution, Micich deals with the various phases of the Exodus and the reception of refugees in Italy, Guiducci illustrates the persecution of the Church in Istria, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, while Loria finally presents a collection of testimonies of Istrian, Fiume and Zadar exiles. This is a text published in conjunction with the Day of Remembrance 2023 and which, due to its clarity of exposition, can also be valuable as a teaching tool for addressing the history of the Adriatic border in schools.