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End of term speech by President Ballarin
On October 3, 2020, the National Council of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles met in Mestre. The President, Dr. Antonio Ballarin, gave his end-of-term speech, reported below, arousing emotion, appreciation and gratitude from the assembly for the work done. In his passionate speech, the President was able to summarize all the actions he has implemented over the last eight years with great detail, producing a summary report and another, extremely detailed one of 610 pages, containing most of the activities carried out (for those who wish to have a copy, simply...
Slovenian President Borut Pahor and President Mattarella in Basovizza: a political synthesis
Regarding the upcoming visit of the President of Slovenia Borut Pahor and President Mattarella to the National Monument of the Foiba of Basovizza, the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles has drawn up a political summary document on the importance of the event. The world of the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus represented by these Associations has great expectations for what will arise as a consequence of this historic visit. We attach the draft text below. BASOVIZZA, 13 JULY 2020 THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE WORLD OF THE JULIAN-DALMATIAN EXODUS FOLLOWING THE HISTORIC VISIT TO THE FOIBA OF THE PRESIDENTS OF ITALY AND SLOVENIA The...
Norma's spirit will never die
Norma's painful story is, and will remain, for all civil society a tragic and atrocious model of what hatred towards our people of Istria and Dalmatia meant. A hatred that came from ideologized hordes who, in their distorted minds, fueled - with the approval of international assemblies even well after the end of the Second World War - a wicked plan aimed at eradicating a multi-millennial indigenous presence. The cruelty and ferocity suffered by Norma was such that it left us all with a dismay and anguish that still lasts today, from that distant and sadly unforgettable 1943 in Istria. Norma, like this...
Speech by FederEsuli President Ballarin at the Senate
Speech by the President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles, Dr. Antonio Ballarin, at the ceremony for the Day of Remembrance of the Foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus at the Senate of the Republic on Monday 10 February 2020. Mr. President of the Senate, Mr. President of the Chamber, Mr. Prime Minister and Representatives of the Government, Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Day of Remembrance is a civil solemnity established by the Italian State with Law 92 of 2004, approved by the Chamber with 502 votes in favor and 15 against. The then President of the Chamber (Hon. Casini) stood up and concluded:...
The exiles: "Our tragedy cannot be justified"
For Antonio Ballarin, a second-generation exile and president of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, the ANPI conference on the foibe had "a justificationist approach". by Elena Barlozzari - 04/02/2020 - Source: Il Giornale Building a shared memory, putting aside what divides. Consigning to the past the ideological hatred that armed the hands of the assassins. Giving dignity to the victims, without alibis or justifications. Possible horizons that, on days like today, 75 years after the end of the war, still seem elusive. Of course, the truth of the foibe can no longer be denied....
Deputy Minister Del Re commits himself to the exiles
The dialogue between the Government and the associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles continues to resolve the open issues regarding the world of the Adriatic diaspora and the subject of the work of the Coordination Table established at the Presidency of the Council. A delegation of representatives of the associations of exiles was received by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Emanuela Claudia Del Re, in order to give continuity to last summer's meeting with the head of the Farnesina, at the time Minister Moavero Milanesi. The delegation also included the president of the National Association of Venice...
FederEsuli President responds to Stojan Spetic
Dear Senator Stojan Spetic, We exiles are astonished by the words we read in the letter you addressed to the President of the Republic Mattarella and published on December 29, 82 on the website: https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-foibe_lettera_dellex_senatore_stojan_spetic_al_presidente_della_repubblica_mattarella/32355_75/ In practice, more than 30 years after the end of the Second World War, what we learn is that you and, we imagine, many of your political party, remain firmly anchored to the thinking of a party comrade of yours, Piero Montagnani, who, in an article published in L'Unità on Saturday, November 1946, XNUMX, imposed a judgment...
Letter to Marcello Veneziani
Dear Marcello Veneziani, I am writing to you after reading, along with many of us, your beautiful piece of the 13th of this month in La Verità entitled “And the lost Italy was found in Fiume”. As you know, the world of the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus brings together a people; many people distributed throughout Italy and the world who were forced to abandon their possessions and effects to safeguard their Italian identity and, with it, their freedom. This part of the Italian people is not dead at all, but alive and generative, and continues its work of testimony and patient mending with the land of origin, with the native Italian communities of Slovenia and Croatia and, even, with the governments of those...
Fiume, September 12, 1919-2019
D'Annunzio's Fiume Enterprise and the Complexity of the History of the Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian People Today The Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles, in the long years from the post-war period to today, have been able to bear witness to the human events of the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus and the persecution of the native Italian-speaking populations of the eastern Adriatic. This testimony has always been full of tenacity, passion and tension towards an ideal of Memory capable of actively contributing to a positive ethic in society. In this action perpetrated in the name of truth, the Associations of Exiles have been able to build...
Open letter to Moni Ovadia
Dear Moni Ovadia, I am writing to you regarding your article that appeared on February 12, 2019 in Il Manifesto and was taken up by the blog RemoContro entitled: Auschwitz and Salvini's Foibe. First of all, I would like to introduce myself. I was born in the late 50s in a Julian-Dalmatian refugee settlement in Rome. My parents were exiles, like my wife's. My family, traditionally Catholic, liberal, democratic (like almost all of our family), suffered not only the Exodus from their hometown, but also persecution in peacetime for being Italian, all after having an uncle who, refusing to fight for the Germans, was deported from... after September 8th.
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