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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....
May 17, 1920, birth of Norma Cossetto
In memory of Norma Cossetto on the day of her birth, on Monday 17 May at 18:00 a live video conference will be held on FaceBook on the ANVGD Venezia page (https://www.facebook.com/ANVGD-Venezia-101632054936530/). The initiative is organized by the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia VENETO and among others the President of the ANVGD Renzo Codarin and the President of the 10th February Committee Emanuele Merlino will speak. The ANVGD today remembered the Gold Medal of Civil Merit in memory and the 10th February Committee dedicated a poster to her. The two associations, in fact, fight together on the national territory for the dissemination of the...
The February 10th Committee remembers the victims of the Marocchinate
The 10th February Committee adheres to the “National Day in memory of the victims of the marocchinate” which will take place on Tuesday 18th May 2021. The event, organized by the national association of victims of the marocchinate, chaired by historical researcher Emiliano Ciotti, intends to commemorate the Italian women and men who, in the period 1943-1944, suffered the violence of colonial soldiers in the French Army. War crimes known by the sad name of “marocchinate”. “The violence committed by the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy is another tragedy that has been forgotten for too long – comments Emanuele Merlino, president...
A white rose for Norma Cossetto in Monfalcone
The exiles belonging to the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, the most representative of the Associations of exiles from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia, which gathers thousands of members, including exiles and their descendants, declare themselves surprised and saddened by the controversy that arose following the proposal to dedicate a rose to Norma Cossetto on the steps of the “Nazario Sauro” marina. Surprised because, after so many decades, some people seem to be anchored to prejudices that seem to perpetuate the communist propaganda of the last century when – as the historian Raul Pupo also recalls – left-wing historiography slavishly and uncritically proposed the interpretation...
The toponymy of Reggio Emilia will celebrate Norma Cossetto
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, the oldest and most representative association of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, expresses to the Mayor of Reggio Emilia Luca Vecchi and his municipal administration its most sincere support for the favorable opinion obtained from the Toponymy Commission on the motion requesting the naming of a street after Norma Cossetto. This is an important recognition by the City of the Tricolour to the Istrian student Gold Medal for civil merit, awarded in 2005 by the then President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and awarded in the immediate post-war period with the "honorary degree to the...
Justificationism against Norma Cossetto
Schürzel (Anvgd), "stunned by statements on Cossetto by Pomezia councilors" "Disconcerting news. In Pomezia, several M5s and Pd councilors have rejected the proposal to name the garden on Via Farina after Norma Cossetto. But the serious thing is that, beyond the fact that another location could have been found if that one is considered unsuitable, the statements of some councilors were decidedly out of place, demonstrating actual historical ignorance of the facts. Some have made a distinction between martyrs and the dead, who thus automatically become series A and series B, adducing, in fact, an ideological motivation for this decision". He told Adnkronos...
Genoa, the Martyrs of the Foibe are outraged
The 10th February Committee expresses outrage over the posting of leaflets insulting the Martyrs of the Foibe. Merlino (President C10F) “Tito nostalgics in action, the Municipality should become a civil party.” “No Foibe, No Party”. This is the sad slogan contained in leaflets posted illegally in recent days in Genoa. The first to denounce this serious offense to the Martyrs of the Foibe and to the entire city was city councilor Antonino Sergio Gambino, who was immediately joined by the publisher and intellectual Andrea Lombardi. The 10th February Committee joins the denunciation of the Genoese exponents. “The nostalgics of the murderous communism of Marshal...
Norma Cossetto Rose of Italy
“Norma Cossetto. Rosa d'Italia”. From January 14, online and in all bookstores, the volume conceived and edited by the Comitato 10 Febbraio and published by Eclettica Edizioni, dedicated to the young Istrian martyr, raped and thrown into sinkholes by Slavic communists, Gold Medal for Civil Merit. Comitato 10 Febbraio (edited by), Norma Cossetto Rosa d'Italia, Eclettica, Massa 2020, 354 pp. “Norma Cossetto. Rosa d'Italia” is a book that helps shed light on the terrible story of the foibe and the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exodus, through the story of the life and brutal murder of those who, despite themselves, became its symbol. Conceived and edited by the Comitato 10...
Norma Cossetto's story deserves respect
Reggio Emilia - The February 10 Committee expresses outrage over the contents of the minutes of the toponymy commission. “The story of Norma Cossetto deserves respect. We ask for the intervention of the Mayor and the Prefect. Does Istoreco agree with what its representative has said?” During the session of October 27, the toponymy commission of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia examined various proposals for naming streets, gardens or public buildings. All the practices were approved unanimously, up to the examination of the motion to name in memory of Norma Cossetto, an Istrian martyr brutally murdered by the Yugoslav communist partisans in October...
