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Speech by the President of the Senate Casellati for the Day of Remembrance
Speech given in the Chamber of Palazzo Madama on 10 February 2020 on the occasion of the Celebration of the Day of Remembrance by the President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. President Fico, President Conte, Ministers, Dear Parliamentarians, Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Girls and Boys, It is with emotion and a strong sense of responsibility that I inaugurate this celebration of the Day of Remembrance, a solemnity dedicated to the commemoration of all the victims of the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian exodus. The twentieth century was, unfortunately, the century of atrocities, wars, racial hatred, mass exterminations. The...
Speech by Prof. Rossi at the Senate for the Day of Remembrance
Speech by Professor Davide ROSSI (University of Trieste) at the ceremony at the Senate of the Republic for Remembrance Day on Monday, February 10, 2020. President of the Senate, President of the Chamber of Deputies, Honorable Senators and Deputies, Government Representatives, Civil, Military, Diplomatic, and Religious Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Students Present, Friends and Brothers of Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia, "I speak in this world assembly and I feel that everything, except your personal courtesy, is against me." Thus, then Prime Minister Alcide de GASPERI spoke, on a hot August day in 1946, at...
Speech by FederEsuli President Ballarin at the Senate
Speech by the President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles, Dr. Antonio Ballarin, at the ceremony for the Day of Remembrance of the Foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus at the Senate of the Republic on Monday 10 February 2020. Mr. President of the Senate, Mr. President of the Chamber, Mr. Prime Minister and Representatives of the Government, Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Day of Remembrance is a civil solemnity established by the Italian State with Law 92 of 2004, approved by the Chamber with 502 votes in favor and 15 against. The then President of the Chamber (Hon. Casini) stood up and concluded:...
Foibe and Exodus national disaster
Remembrance Day: Foibe and Exodus a "National Disaster." No to Denialism. Rome, February 9, 2020 - President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella issued the following statement: "The 'Day of Remembrance,' established by a large majority of Parliament in 2004, helps us relive a tragic chapter in our recent history, ignored, erased, or even denied for many years: the terrible suffering that the Italians of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia were forced to endure under the occupation of the Yugoslav Communists. These lands, along with their inhabitants, at the end of the Second World War, suffered the sad and harsh fate...
Remembrance Day is a historical heritage for all Italians
Remembrance Day 2020 marks further significant steps forward to ensure that the tragedy of the foibe, the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, and the reintegration of 350.000 Istrians, Fiume, and Dalmatians to new residences, often beyond Italy's borders, becomes an increasingly shared heritage of the national community. Unfortunately, in the days leading up to February 10th, we are witnessing the persistence of ambiguous, if not downright self-justifying, initiatives that seek to downplay the suffering of the indigenous Italian community of the eastern Adriatic, from the Habsburg legislative measures to the annexation to Yugoslavia.
Exiles in the Apuan land
Matteo Marchini, Esuli in terra apuana. L'esodo giuliano-dalmata ei Centri Raccolta Profughi, Eclettica, Massa 2019, 107 pp. This work has been divided into three chapters and covers a time span from 1918 to 1960, in relation to what were the historical premises and the salient phases of the Julian-Dalmatian and Istrian question. The first part of the study could not ignore an analysis of the historical specificities of the period taken into consideration and of the related national and international political events: from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, after the First World War, to the advent of fascism with the consequent launching of the...
Cristicchi's "Exodus" Tour 2020
In the Old Port of Trieste there is a particularly touching “place of memory”: Warehouse No. 18. It tells of a painful page in the history of Italy, of a complex story of our twentieth century that is never well known, and if possible made even more heartbreaking by the fact that its memory has been entrusted not to an imposing monument but to many, small, humble testimonies that belong to everyday life. In the old port of Trieste, Warehouse No. 18 preserves chairs, wardrobes, mattresses, beds and dishes, photographs, toys, every common good in the flow of so many lives interrupted by history, and by the Exodus: with the Peace Treaty of 1947 Italy...
“Refugees of Italy” by Petra di Laghi
Petra Di Laghi, Refugees of Italy. 1943-1955. The Drama of the Julian-Dalmatians from the Foibe to the Collection Centers. Reception in Genoa and Liguria, Erga Edizioni, Genoa 2019, 160 pp. At the end of the Second World War, the exodus of approximately three hundred thousand Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia began, border lands subjected for decades to war catastrophes, upheavals of regimes and nationalities, cultural and linguistic upheavals. The book reconstructs not only the events that caused that mass displacement after the tragic season of the Foibe and the passage of those territories under the Yugoslav regime, but also the long journey that the refugees...
It was not possible to stay
The presentation of the book L' ESODO DA PIEMONTE D' ISTRIA. "no se podeva star..." will take place on Saturday 21 September 2019 at 17.30:29 pm at the headquarters of the Association of Istrian Communities in via Belpoggio 1/22, Trieste, and on Sunday 2019 September 18.00 at XNUMX:XNUMX pm at the Centro Polifunzionale di Piemonte d' Istria (Grisignana). The volume, edited by Franco Biloslavo (secretary of the Community of Piemonte d' Istria), which collects the memories of the Piedmontese exiles from their country after the end of the Second World War, includes the recording of the show "TORNAR" performed by Simone Cristicchi in Piemonte d' Istria in...
Exodus and Foibe, the position of the Italian State was traced by Mattarella
Codarin (ANVGD): “Mattarella has well defined the synthesis and perspective of a path built over the years by the Julian Dalmatian associations thanks to Lucio Toth and enlightened exponents of various political and cultural extractions”. The position of the Italian State regarding the attempts to justify or deny the Foibe massacres has already been authoritatively stated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the recent celebration at the Quirinale of the Day of Remembrance. In fact, on that occasion, President Mattarella, firmly condemning any attempt at historical revisionism, clearly highlighted the criminal matrix...
