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Open letter to Moni Ovadia
Dear Moni Ovadia, I am writing to you regarding your article that appeared on February 12, 2019 in Il Manifesto and was taken up by the blog RemoContro entitled: Auschwitz and Salvini's Foibe. First of all, I would like to introduce myself. I was born in the late 50s in a Julian-Dalmatian refugee settlement in Rome. My parents were exiles, like my wife's. My family, traditionally Catholic, liberal, democratic (like almost all of our family), suffered not only the Exodus from their hometown, but also persecution in peacetime for being Italian, all after having an uncle who, refusing to fight for the Germans, was deported from... after September 8th.
Foibe, deportees after the war and Julian-Dalmatian exodus to the European Parliament
To inform the European Parliament's insiders of the tragedies of the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian exodus. With this spirit, on Tuesday 5 February at the European Parliament in Brussels (Area Jan 3Q) the exhibition "You will leave everything dearly beloved. The exile of the Julians, Fiumani and Dalmatians at the end of the Second World War" will be inaugurated at 12:30 thanks to the collaboration with the Hon. Elisabetta Gardini and curated by the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, the Adriatic Coordination Association and the Multimedia Documentation Centre for Julian, Istrian, Fiumana and Dalmatian Culture. Open until 8...
How much do high school graduates know about the exodus and the foibe?
In the 2009/10 school year, the foibe, a taboo subject until a few years earlier, made their appearance in the first test of the State Exam. The institution of the Law of Remembrance with Law 92 of March 30, 2004 had introduced the anniversary of February 10 into the Italian civil calendar, on the sidelines of which conferences, commemorations and official ceremonies had opened the eyes of the Italian public opinion to the complex story of the eastern border and the ethnic cleansing suffered by our fellow countrymen. Very few students ventured down that path, either out of ignorance or fear of addressing a subject that had often given rise to...
The forgotten exodus of Dalmatians after the Great War
The National Dalmatian Association has reprinted the documentary that illustrates the fate of our fellow countrymen after the Treaty of Rapallo Thanks to the generous contribution of the Fondazione Terzo Pilastro – Internazionale, the National Dalmatian Association has been able to reprint the DVD “1921 The ignored exodus. The drama of the Italians of Dalmatia”, which appeared in its first edition a dozen years ago. This documentary is enriched by geographical maps, vintage postcards and above all images from the archive of Manlio Cace, who lived the days of the exciting arrival of Italy on 6 November 1918 in Sebenico and the consequent disappointment of the cession...
A story of the exodus from Cres
Maria Luisa Lemessi The Villa: sweet and sad childhood memories A villa, an island, a dream: these are indelible memories that shaped the personality of a little girl and her life. The various events, happy and sad, are filtered through the eyes of a little girl and are immersed in the tragedy of the Second World War and the post-war period that devastated Istria and Dalmatia. It is a slice of life similar to that of 350.000 other exiles who abandoned their lands in the name of freedom and democracy. Maria Luisa Lemessi was born in Cherso (Pula), now Croatia, on March 26, 1934. At twelve years old, she left Cherso for Chiavari (Genoa) where her father, Giacomo Lemessi,...
From refugees to exiles
"From Refugees to Exiles": The Second Post-War Period Through the Eyes of Petra Di Laghi The central issue is the reception and assistance offered to Julian-Dalmatian refugees in the Second Post-War Period Genoa - The master's thesis was the cornerstone from which the writer Petra Di Laghi started. An inspiration that, in the two years that passed, has transformed into a real editorial "effort". From Refugees to Exiles. The Julian-Dalmatian Exodus Between Chronicle and Memory, published by the publishing house Edizioni Accademiche Italiane, provides an overview of the historical events that affected the territories of Venezia Giulia during the Second World War and, in...
Come on, we have to go!
The Fameia Capodistriana and the Gian Rinaldo Carli Cultural Center invite you to the presentation of Guido Porro's book VIA, DOBBIAMO PARTIRE! The testimony of an Istrian exile. The book was edited by Alessandro Porro, son of Guido and Anna Maria, Istrian exiles from Koper. The presentation will take place on FRIDAY, APRIL 13 AT 6:00 PM in the National League Hall, Via Donota 2, 3rd floor, Trieste. "They scraped everything from Venezia Giulia. Even the colors (the hues) of the houses and buildings, which were warm and vibrant like those of Venice (and the entire Adriatic), they let them turn gray and white so they would look...
“Those days of Pola” a community overwhelmed by the blindness of History
For the Day of Remembrance, Corrado Belci's book, considered a classic of exodus literature, has returned: from the volume "Quei giorni di Pola" (Leg, Gorizia 2018) we publish the introduction by Arrigo Levi below. The reader should not be fooled by the relative brevity of this book of memoirs, nor by the nostalgic but serene rhythm of its initial part. This is a booklet as short as it is precious, as calm as it is passionate. Corrado Belci has written - using, by deliberate or unconscious choice, his wisdom as an old journalist - a narrative that is all "in crescendo", due to the intensity of the feelings that...
On holiday in Vrsar: from the balcony above my house
I am sitting on a comfortable armchair on a balcony, in Vrsar, above what is, was, my house. I am, perhaps, ten meters from my parents' bedroom, the room where I was born. My house is a few meters from me, never been so far away. It is silent. Can you say that a house is alone? The impression I get, looking at it, is solitude, a great, immense, desolate solitude. The laughter, the games, the shouts of us children, the voices of the adults that overlapped, the people who came in and out of the "workshop" are only memories, mine, the ones that follow me - do they haunt me? - all my life. I have been in Vrsar for a few days but the ...
The persecution of priests in Tito's Istria
Pietro Zovatto's volume recalls the methods and victims of Yugoslav anti-religious politics. In the history of the eastern Italian border, the religious factor and priests have often played a leading role. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when the Slavic clergy of the Gorizia, Trieste and Istrian hinterland worked to consolidate the Slovenian and Croatian national consciousness: these were what Engels defined as "nations without history", but in this context they took shape in opposition to the increasingly vigorous Italian irredentism and under the protection of the authorities of the very Catholic Austro-Hungarian Empire. Emperor Franz Joseph,...
