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Venezia Giulia Istria Dalmatia: three thousand years of history edited by Carlo Montani
This book has reached its fifth edition in a completely new guise. “Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia: sommario storico”: the volume was published with this title in 1990. It was followed by the translation into English (2001), the third bilingual edition with facing texts (2002) and the fourth printed in anastatic form (2011). The geographical entity of Venezia Giulia, under the Kingdom of Italy, from 1918 to 1947, is formed by the provinces of Gorizia, including the Isonzo Valley and up to Cerkno and Idria, Trieste up to Postumia, Pola, including the islands of Cherso and Lussino and Fiume, from Moschiena up to Villa del Nevoso (with some annexations from 1941). Zara with a little bit of...
The lost homeland in the CRP of Laterina
The Lost Homeland is the new book on the refugees of Venezia Giulia written by Elio Varutti, of the ANVGD of Udine, with the precious collaboration of Claudio Ausilio, of the ANVGD of Arezzo, for the publisher Aska of Florence. Those who lost their homeland, after the Second World War, were the Italian citizens of Fiume, Pola and Zara and a part of those of Gorizia and Trieste. Their lands, their homes and their belongings were given to Yugoslavia as compensation for the damages of the war wanted by the Duce and the King. 350 thousand were expelled, or had to leave with regular documents, to pour into the rest of stepmother Italy, with the fear of the foibe. Many passed through the Centers...
“Traces of Exile” at the CRP of Laterina
Never before have we seen such a flourishing period of books on the Julian-Dalmatian exodus. Essays, historical research, testimonies and novels: various authors are throwing themselves into this investigation that has been relegated to silence for too long, since the Second World War. They are not just memorials afflicted by victimism, as the justificationists, reductionists and deniers of the foibe theme dare to claim. You can also find extensive academic studies, journalistic investigations, stories, poems, archival research, with interviews and field visits. This is also the case with this book. Giuliana Pesca, Serena Domenici and Giovanni...
“The Bell of Harzarich” Awarded
Honorable Mention to Elio Varutti with the story-interview La campana di Harzarich at the International Literary Award “Villotte: Storie In Cammino…, Un Cammino di Storia” in San Quirino (PN). Third Edition 2020. The Competition is awarded the Medal of Representation of the President of the Senate of the Italian Republic. The President of the European Parliament, Hon. Davide Sassoli, has granted “The High Patronage of the European Parliament”. The mention received is for Section G - Adult Stories on the theme “The Exodus”. In the opening photograph: the bell of the fire truck of Marshal Arnaldo Harzarich of Pola, with the effigy of St. Barbara. The bell...
The Refugee Collection Center of Laterina
by Elio Varutti - 27/03/2020 Source: http://eliovarutti.blogspot.com/2020/03/lesodo-da-rovigno-laterina-di-riccardo.html There are 4.695 names listed in the Alphabetical List of Julian Refugees, kept in the Archives of the Municipality of Laterina. The list opens with the name of Abba Lucia, which bears these indications: "n° 167 of the file, date of elimination 4.6.1957; Municipality of new residence: Rome". It ends with: "Zonca Silvana, n° 1428 of the file, date of elimination unknown, untraceable". Of course, it is a directory with few indications. In fact, the date and place of birth are unknown, but it is very useful for defining the number of people who passed through the CRP of...
The Exodus from Veglia by Celina Maracich, Exile in Tuscany
by Elio Varutti - 14/04/2020 Source: http://eliovarutti.blogspot.com/2020/04/lesodo-da-veglia-di-celina-maracich.html Some exiles prefer to forget everything and move on. They let it go, so as not to have grudges, so as not to rekindle the pain and suffering they endured, perhaps because they were very young during the Second World War. This seemed to me to be the case of Celina Maracich Pardi, born in Veglia in 1933 and an exile in Ripafratta di San Giuliano Terme (PI). “I left Veglia on March 19, 1949, I was 16 years old – this is how the witness begins her story – with me were my mother Maria Fiorentin and my father Giovanni Maracich, born at the end of the nineteenth century”. The...
Those strange Italians from the Villaggio San Marco in Fossoli
Roberto Riccò, Those strange Italians of the Villaggio San Marco di Fossoli, «Terra e identità», n. 89, Modena, 2019, 192 pages, with b/w photographs, 12 euros; the volume can be ordered at info@terraeidentita.it by Elio Varutti - 08/03/2020 - Source: https://eliovarutti.wordpress.com/2020/03/08/un-libro-sui-profughi-istriani-del-villaggio-s-marco-di-fossoli-di-carpi-mo/ Roberto Riccò's volume on the Villaggio San Marco di Fossoli, active from 1954 to 1970, fills a certain gap. It is true that there was already a miscellaneous text assembled on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its birth for the National Study Conference curated by the Modena Provincial Committee of the Association...
