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Foibe and the public use of history
Instrumental polemics do not help build a bridge between the European past and present. The outbursts on the tragedy of the Julian foibe continue with new protagonists, often going as far as literally wanting to abolish law 92/2004. I do not intend to dwell here on what bizarre relevance there is to wanting to overturn an almost unanimous vote of the Italian parliament in favor of a law that intended to connect the memory of the Julian-Dalmatian exiles with national and European history. Obviously, this law, which established the Day of Remembrance of the suffering experienced by the Italian populations of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia cannot and should not be abolished on the basis of...
National Competition February 10th “For Love of Country!”
To celebrate the Day of Remembrance in the school environment, the XII edition of the National Competition 2021 February entitled "For Love of Homeland!" has been announced for the 22/'10 school year, a sentiment in the name of which many tragedies of the Italians of Venezia Giulia, Fiume and Dalmatia have occurred. This is a competition aimed at students of primary, lower and upper secondary schools, both state and private Italian schools, of the States where teaching in Italian is foreseen and implemented and at Italian-abroad schools: deadline January 14, 2022. The Competition is aimed at promoting education in European citizenship and Italian history through the knowledge and...
Croatia has made Remembrance Day a custom
In diplomacy, sometimes we proceed at a snail's pace, unlike politics, where everything - theater and little theaters - takes place under the spotlight. Small steps count and sometimes these lead to positive results and important changes. So I delude myself that I too have made some progress, with the recognition, by Croatia, of the "Day of Remembrance of the Foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus". In fact, since it was introduced in 2004 as a debt of gratitude towards the memory of the thousands of Italians who were victims of blind and brutal violence carried out by the Yugoslavian secret police and with various vendettas, inspired by class hatred or...
We exiles, multimedia project by CDM and Anvgd
The press review of how the Trieste daily newspaper "Il Piccolo" faced the catastrophe of the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus, in a historical phase in which the fate of the Julian capital was still uncertain. Images from the archives of the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture (CDM) and documentaries from the Istituto Luce. Testimonies collected by interviewing those who lived through the catastrophe that uprooted 90% of the native Italian community from Istria, Carnaro and Dalmatia that had lived in those lands for centuries. The story told through podcasts of how sport represented redemption for many athletes from those...
The stall ended by talking about the Exodus, the Foibe and Alida Valli
Yesterday at the Bancarella was a day dedicated to memorials, on the last day of the event organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in collaboration with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. Over the course of the four days, the event attracted hundreds of people to the marquee in Piazza Sant'Antonio, always within the limits of the number allowed by the restrictions related to Covid. "From memories to history", this was yesterday's theme, during which the journey of the exiles was retraced once they had been exodused in the various camps...
Bancarella 2021: female perspectives on the Adriatic and closing dedicated to the Exodus
A day entirely dedicated to women, the third of the Bancarella 2021 Salone del Libro dell'Adriatico Orientale, the event organized in Trieste by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in synergy with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. “Queen” of the women of the Eastern Adriatic (Saturday's theme) was chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, received in the marquee of Piazza Sant'Antonio in Trieste like a real star. Young and old, young and old crowded (as much as possible given the period) the interior and immediate exterior of the...
The stall begins with Visions of the exodus between past and future
The 23 edition of "La Bancarella. Salone del libro dell'Adriatico orientale" (Eastern Adriatic Book Fair) begins today, Thursday 2021 September, in Piazza Sant'Antonio Nuovo in Trieste, organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture in collaboration with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. All events can be viewed live on the websites www.anvgd.it and www.arcipelagoadriatico.it The theme of the first of the four days is "Visions of the Exodus between past and future" and it will be inaugurated, at 17:00 pm, by a round table in the presence of the director of the city newspaper Il...
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...
Hands off Remembrance Day
The Day of Remembrance belongs first and foremost to the Julian-Dalmatian community and obtained the vote of 95% of the Parliamentarians. The historiography of the left linked to the suggestions of the old PCI unloads the historical responsibility of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus first on liberal Italy (for them one fact counts... that the Risorgimento was not made by the popular masses, who did not want Italy to enter the 1915-'18 war for Trento and Trieste) and then very decisively on the fascist regime. Furthermore, they establish in their syntheses a curious cause-effect relationship in reading the history of the eastern border. The various Montanari Barbero, D'Orsi, Gobetti and others do not...
“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...
