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A thought for Father Sergio
On May 11, 2015, Father Sergio Katuranich, a Jesuit priest from Fiume, proud of his humanity, about which he wrote several books, one of which "Frammenti di vita fiumana" (Fragments of Fiume Life), died in Gallarate at the age of 92. It so happened that I was reading it these days. His funeral would have been on May 14. I take this opportunity to remember him. Unfortunately, I was only able to meet him one evening, for dinner, the time he came to Rome, at Villaggio Giuliano, and with Luca Muscardin, whose father Luciano, the great dermatologist Father Katuranich was a good friend since we were kids, and Marino Micich, we went to eat at Nuraghe. We talked a lot. Father Katuranich was the founder of the Group...
Balkans, a peninsula in literature
A book that is also - but certainly not only - the story of a common journey made by Diego Zandel and us at Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso by Davide Sighele - 16/04/2018 With Diego Zandel, we at OBCT began collaborating six years ago. A relationship that has grown, over time, of a progressive mutual knowledge and that has brought our readers dozens of incursions into the literatures of south-eastern Europe. We approached each other in a natural way, like boats are driven to frequent the most sheltered inlets. We were attracted to each other by DNA. For us metaphorical, for Diego not only. Diego's personal story is in fact strongly linked to the countries...
40 years of separation
"His Name That Day", by Pietro Spirito, tells the story of a mother and daughter who meet again after forty years of separation. In the background, the refugee camps and the story of the exodus of the Italian community from Tito's Yugoslavia by Diego Zandel - 12/04/2018 The harsh reality of the refugee camps, set up from the end of the Second World War until the early Sixties for refugees from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia, is well told in their desperation by Pietro Spirito in the novel "His Name That Day", published by Marsilio. He does so, in my opinion, in forms of degradation that are a bit excessive, between petty thefts and prostitution, which personally, for having been born and...
World War II: The Rescue of Jews in Yugoslavia and Dalmatia
There were approximately 78 Jews living in the territories of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia when the Nazis entered Belgrade on April 12, 1941. Most were victims of the Holocaust, but several thousand were saved thanks to the Italian army. A book reconstructs the story. 30/10/2017 - Diego Zandel During the Second World War, in the areas of former Yugoslavia occupied by Italians and Germans, Ante Pavelić's Croatian Ustasha allies were certainly not inferior in ferocity to the Nazis towards the Jews (and Serbs and Roma). Indeed, in some cases – excluding the use of crematoria – they were worse. The massacres were such that in order to...
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