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Special issue of Dalmatica Magazine dedicated to the horrors of Borovnica
The dossier intended for the Paris conference of 1947 is a sad sample of atrocities "Secret - October 5, 1945 - Conditions of Italian internees in Yugoslavia with particular reference to the Borovnica camp and the military hospital of Skofja Loka both called the death camp". From the title of the first typewritten page, the report of our services that emerges from the past makes your skin crawl. "Shootings for nothing", "torture at the stake", "forced labor", "living skeletons" are the terrible words that are repeated in the testimonies of Italian soldiers captured after the war and who survived Tito's concentration camps. A classified report of horror...
Unknown Militi, women tell the Son of Italy
On the occasion of the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Soldier at the Altar of the Fatherland in Rome, Idrovolante Edizioni is publishing a very special book. Titled “Ignoto Militi”, it is a collection of writings all signed by women authors. “Because if the Unknown Soldier is a son of Italy – we read on the back cover – women are his girlfriends, wives, daughters, mothers. Mothers like Maria Bergamas, who gave the life of her son Antonio to the Fatherland and who was charged with choosing, from eleven coffins of nameless fallen soldiers, the one that was taken to the Vittoriano in Rome. And which is still there, to symbolize the eternity of the sacrifice of...
Bologna and the “Train of Shame”
When the Italian communists welcomed the Istrian, Julian and Dalmatian exiles with spitting and stones by Cristina Di Giorgi - 18/02/2021 Source: Il Guastatore Bologna, February 18, 1947. The clock strikes 12 and the loudspeaker announces the entrance into the station of a train full of Istrian, Julian and Dalmatian refugees who, fleeing the terror caused by the spread of violence in their lands by Marshal Tito's communist partisans, have faced a long journey of hope towards what they fully consider their homeland. Many of them are women and old people, but there are also many children. Having left Pola on February 16, they are welcomed in Ancona...
The smile of two women that becomes a living memory
Article by Cristina Di Giorgi third place in the seventh edition of the National Journalism Award "Angelo Maria Palmieri" The profound meaning of a Day that must serve to recompose the national historical heritage, breaking down the barriers of oblivion Memory is a word full of meanings, which evokes atmospheres and sensations. But above all it is a living word, which makes places, people and pages of history eternal. Which precisely with Memory, when it is shared, cease to be exclusively part of the experience of each to become the common heritage of all. This is precisely the spirit behind the institution, with law no. 92...
