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Aldo Clemente, the tutelary deity of the Adriatic exiles
Aldo Clemente would have turned one hundred last October 21st. He passed away in 2014 after having been the General Secretary of the Opera Assistenza ai Refughi giuliani e Dalmatiani from 1949 to 1979. Previously, he had been the provincial secretary of the Associazione Orfani di Guerra in Trieste, his hometown, and secretary for two years of the National Committee for Italian Refugees, before dedicating his efforts in particular to the integration of the hundreds of thousands of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles throughout the peninsula and who, specifically, would have found a new home on the extreme southern outskirts of Rome. They had spontaneously...
The memory of Norma Cossetto and the martyrs of the foibe was vandalized
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia joins the February 10 Committee in condemning the act of vandalism committed by those who broke the plaque in honor of the Martyrs of the Foibe in Rapallo, in the province of Genoa. Unfortunately, this is not the first case of its kind, other similar cases have occurred in the past, often in conjunction with the celebrations of the Day of Remembrance, while this time multiple initiatives and toponymic naming have just taken place throughout Italy on the anniversary of the brutal death and sinking into a sinkhole of Norma Cossetto, between October 4 and 5, 1943. In light of these vandalism incidents, we note that in the days preceding the...
Croatian Post has issued bilingual stamps dedicated to Rovinj
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia is pleased to see that the Croatian Post Office has kept its promise to reprint the stamps dedicated to Rovigno d'Istria with the official bilingual denomination: "We moved heaven and earth - says Donatella Schürzel, deputy national vice president of the ANVGD - but it was worth it. To all those who contributed and supported the commitment that I made for this purpose, I extend my heartfelt thanks. I personally contacted Italian diplomatic representations in Croatia and Croatian ones in Italy, the Community of Italians "Pino Budicin" and the association of Rovinj exiles...
Rovinj stamp will be bilingual
During the press conference to present the new stamps dedicated to Rovigno d'Istria printed by the Croatian Post Office, it was specified that a new print run will be released on June 25th, including the bilingual wording Rovinj-Rovigno, as required by various regulations. "The proposal of the Honorable Giovanardi that we immediately shared - declared the vice president of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, Donatella Schürzel, who took charge of the delicate issue in person - was accepted by the Croatian Post Office. Our protests have borne fruit, thanks also to the personalities and institutions that have...
Croatian Post Office Must Respect Istrian Bilingualism
The news that the Croatian post office has presented a new stamp dedicated to Rovinj of Istria on which the name of the city is written only in Croatian, thus contravening a series of laws and guarantees acquired over time, has caused dismay among the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles. "I made contact on site," Professor Donatella Schürzel communicates in a note, "in my capacity as Deputy Vice President of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and in agreement with the national president Renzo Codarin, with figures of high institutional and cultural reference such as the Deputy Mayor of Rovinj, the President of the local Italian Community, the...
The Anpi and the conference on the foibe
Controversy erupts in the Senate The Anpi organizes a conference on fascism and the foibe in the Senate, but politicians and associations accuse: "Denialism" by Giuseppe Aloisi - 03/02/2019 - Source: Il Giornale The Anpi, for Donatella Schürzel, has launched a "sneaky and denialist attack" on the subject of the foibe. The conference organized by the National Association of Italian Partisans at the Senate library, also for Forza Italia senator Maurizio Gasparri, has a "clear denialist objective". Similar controversies had also been raised last year, with the same organizing group as the protagonist. But not in relation to a conference like the one planned for...
The Adriatic world in the second half of the twentieth century
by Lorenzo Salimbeni - 09/06/2018 ROME | A large and qualified audience (including among others Prof. Ester Capuzzo of La Sapienza University, Prof. Giuseppe de Vergottini of the Adriatic Coordination Association and Prof. Damir Grubiša, former ambassador to Italy of the Republic of Croatia) characterized the last event of the series of study conferences "The cultural world in Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia from 1700 to 1900", organized at the Casa del Ricordo by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia in synergy with the Department of Culture of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Rome Capital. Introduced and...
