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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 support of the Ministry of Culture, the conference "Sacrifice and Hospitality" on Sunday, March 15th in the "Sala Giulia" of Villa Romanazzi Carducci at Via Giuseppe Capruzzi 326 in Bari. The conference has two objectives: - to 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...
The February 10th Committee has registered its logo
The Ministry of Business and Made in Italy, Department of Market and Protection, General Directorate for Industrial Property (UIBM), with a provision dated December 15, 2025, signed by Director Alfonso Piantedosi, certified the registration of the Comitato 10 Febbraio logo as a trademark. The trademark, filed on April 1, 2025 (registration number 302025000054204), will be protected for the next ten years. "In agreement with the National Board of Directors, we have decided to protect the Comitato 10 Febbraio name and logo from any plagiarism or improper use," states Silvano Olmi, National President of the C10F. "Unfortunately, in...
A huge “Bench of Remembrance” in the province of Brescia
The municipality of Azzano Mella (in the province of Brescia) is the first to have decided to dedicate a tricolor bench as proposed by the Comitato 10 Febbraio. Since last June 2nd, in fact, the C10F has been promoting throughout Italy the patriotic initiative called “Benches of Remembrance”, the installation in every Italian city of a bench painted with the colors of the national flag: these benches, positioned in public places and painted green, white and red, will each have a plaque with the dedication to a Martyr of the foibe, to the Gold Medal for Civil Merit Norma Cossetto, or to an Istrian, Julian, Fiume, Dalmatian exile, who has particularly...
The “Benches of Remembrance” project of the 10th February Committee is underway
For some years, in various municipalities in Italy, tricolor benches have been installed, repainted with the colors of the National Flag. For example, in Milan in March 2022 the city council voted in favor of a motion presented by councilor Francesco Rocca, to install benches with the colors of the Italian flag in several points of the city of Milan, entrusting them to the care of neighborhood committees, associations and schools. "Our flag is the symbol of national unity and of the Republic - said the councilor - the Tricolor is the symbol of the Italian people who find their identity in the principles of brotherhood, equality, justice and freedom"....
Silvano Olmi is the new President of the February 10 Committee
The assembly of members of the Comitato 10 Febbraio, meeting on the afternoon of Thursday 29 December 2022, unanimously elected Silvano Olmi as the new national president. He succeeds Emanuele Merlino, who must leave the position due to personal commitments. The Comitato 10 Febbraio is an association that keeps alive, in Italy and in the world, the memory and history of the Eastern Border of Italy and the lands of the Eastern Adriatic. Furthermore, it promotes the celebration of the "Day of Remembrance" in memory of the victims of the foibe, of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, of the events of the eastern border and for the granting of recognition to the relatives of the foibati, as...
The solidarity of the February 10 Committee with Ukrainian refugees
Ukraine, MODAVI and 10 February Committee: “Refugees must not become exiles. Guarantee Ukrainian territorial integrity” The volunteers of MODAVI Onlus, Movement of Italian Volunteer Associations, and of the 10 February Committee are returning from a humanitarian mission that started on 24 March, with stops on the borders of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The volunteers of the two Italian organizations distributed 12 tons of basic necessities, including food and medicines, and visited some collection and detention centers that house people fleeing the war in Ukraine. “The material, collected thanks to the extraordinary...
On the Road to Remembrance, February 10, 2022
What is Memory? A moment of emotion that lasts the time of a day? No. For us it is something much more important! What happened in Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia is not only a page of history to remember, and to make remembered, on February 10 but then we forget for the rest of the year. The violence suffered by the foibati, the injustice of the exodus but also the dignity of love of country, the stories of greatness and redemption, that the Italians of the eastern Adriatic have given us, deserve much more than a simple, even if dutiful, ceremony of a few people. To ensure that it is a shared memory the road is still long and many, too many, are...
Unknown Soldier, your name is also Verbania
On the YouTube channel of the Comitato 10 Febbraio you can see the summary video of the event Milite Ignoto il tuo nome è anche Verbania organized by the Comitato 10 Febbraio of Verbania in collaboration with the Municipality of Verbania, the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Multimedia Documentation Center of the Julian, Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian culture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFlYDgXfreo The music and songs were performed by the Local Band Corps and the Motta Rossa Choir of Magognino di Stresa; the staging and historical reenactment was by the Historical Group Militaria 1848-1945. The event took place on 7...
In 170 cities a rose blooms for Norma
For the third consecutive year, the Comitato 10 Febbraio is organizing the national event “Una Rosa per Norma Cossetto” to commemorate the Istrian heroine. The Comitato 10 Febbraio remembers the sacrifice of Norma Cossetto, the young Istrian woman kidnapped, tortured, raped and thrown into a sinkhole by Slavic communist partisans and who became a symbol of the tragedy of the sinkholes thanks to the Gold Medal for Civil Merit, awarded to her in 2005 by the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Tomorrow, Saturday 2 October 2021, the ceremonies of the national event “Una Rosa per Norma Cossetto” will begin, now in its third edition and which will continue until Sunday 10...
FederEsuli meets the Ambassador in Zagreb and makes an agreement with the Italian Union
After the hearing at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber and the meeting with the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale, another important institutional meeting took place for the leaders of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Exiles. At the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb in the presence of the Italian Ambassador to Croatia Pierfancesco Sacco, FederEsuli not only held an in-depth conversation with the diplomatic representative, but also signed a Program Agreement for the creation of a cultural network with the Italian Union, a representative body of the native Italian community in the former Yugoslavia....
