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The man in the photo of the Vergarolla massacre has a name
75 years ago the explosion in Pula that tore apart one hundred people. Bruno Castro, a direct witness, from Canada tells for the first time the truth about the iconic photo of the decapitated little girl. A sharp shot like a gunshot, then the end of the world: an explosion shatters the rocks on which thousands of people are enjoying the sunny Sunday in August, the pine forest erupts in a blaze, the sea turns red with blood and the crazed seagulls fight over the human remains raining down from the sky. While a mushroom cloud of smoke rises from the beach, for a radius of kilometers the entire city jolts, shattering shop windows and windows. Pula, Italy, August 18, 1946, today 75 years...
The Night of the Istrians
After a year of research, “La notte degli Istri” was born, a historical novel that could be called Istriade. The epic martyrdom of a people suffered for bearing witness to their faith and their Italianness. The novel has as its protagonist a family of fishermen from Rovigno and unfolds on two parallel tracks: Sauro who leaves for the military in 1943 and Eufemia, the older sister, who takes care of the house since her mother Agnese is in poor health. The stories of the two children are emblematic of the period of cruel madness of those years, with the horror of the foibe, the concentration camps, the violence up to rape, with 350.000 exiles and 850.000 estimated deaths, lived with...
Eastern Border History Summer School
New, important step forward in the collaboration between the Ministry of Education and the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles: a summer school dedicated to the history of the eastern border in the prestigious setting of the Vittoriale. In fact, from 12 to 16 July, as part of the activities “The events of the eastern border and the world of school”, the first summer school entitled “The difficult twentieth century of the eastern border. From the Italian Risorgimento to European perspectives” will take place in Gardone Riviera (in the province of Brescia) in the Vittoriale degli Italiani as part of the initiatives for the centenary of the sumptuous residence of Gabriele...
“Lost Lands”, the latest book by Ulderico Bernardi
Starting today, Saturday 12 June, the volume by Ulderico Bernardi “Terre perse. L'amputazione della Venezia Giulia dall'8 settembre al 10 febbraio 1947” (Biblioteca dei Leoni, Villorba 2021) created in collaboration with the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) can also be purchased in conjunction with Il Piccolo di Trieste and other newspapers in the Northeast. The illustrious sociologist, emeritus of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and often involved in the initiatives of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, was working on the drafts of this...
Historic Justice for the People of the Exodus
Here we go again... Julian-Dalmatian exiles amid political disputes Article by Carlo Greppi in Domani “Foibe, fascism, Resistance. For many years we have been telling history backwards”: http://www.editorialedomani.it/idee/cultura/italia-storia-memoria-foibe-fascismo-resistenza-fratelli-ditalia-o0hijdmf Now the Day of Remembrance has, according to Gobetti and many others, become “The Day of Fascist Remembrance”... The legitimate debate on memories, however, must not prevail over the acquired right to remember at a national level the tragedies that struck the Julian-Dalmatian exile community. A mass of over 300.000 people who...
The “gastronomic” memories of an Istrian exile in Puglia
On the website of the independent newspaper Mola Libera, of Bari, the curious testimonies of Prof. Dionisio (Dino) Simone, exiled from Pola On the website of the independent newspaper Mola Libera, of Bari, of which he is a collaborator, Prof. Dionisio (Dino) Simone, professor of classical literature and writer, of Istrian origins (he was born in Pola on December 3, 1940), author, among other things, of the book "Come un gabbiano. L'esodo da Pola settent'anni dopo (1947-2017), "Le parole nostre. Viaggio nella memoria di un profugo istriano" (both for Edizioni Dal Sud the first in 2014 and the second in 2016) and last year of the volume "I classici ai tempi del coronavirus", has published...
The Exodus at the Museum of Italian Emigration
A memorandum of understanding has been signed in recent days between the MEI Museum of Italian Emigration in Genoa and the Society of Fiumani Studies - Historical Museum Archive of Fiume based in Rome. In Genoa, work has begun on the functional and technological adaptation of the ancient building of the Commenda di San Giovanni di Prè, which will house the National Museum of Italian Emigration (MEI), which was born from the strong desire to return to the general public, nationally and internationally, the narration of a vast and diversified heritage such as that linked to the history of Italian emigration, a heritage physically spread across numerous locations, both in Italy and abroad,...
Cristicchi's “Exodus” back at the theatre
The "Exodus" and the drama of the Italians of Istria. Cristicchi between history, sentiment, identity. Great anticipation for the reopening, after many months, of the Teatro Verdi with the show "Exodus" conceived and performed by Simone Cristicchi, on stage tomorrow at 19 pm. A story told through voice, words and images inspired by the exodus of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia. A story that brings back a (sometimes) repressed memory, that of the foibe, and the mass expatriation of Italian citizens, who after the peace treaty of 1947 had to leave everything, thus ceasing to be geographically Italian. It all starts from the Old Port of Trieste where there is "the place of...
“The foibe, the exodus, the memory” in digital format
“Venezia Giulia, Fiume, Dalmatia. The foibe, the exodus, the memory – Essays and documents”, edited by Amleto Ballarini, Giovanni Stelli, Marino Micich, Emiliano Loria, is now available to those interested in reading it also in digital format. The Association for the culture of Fiume, Istria and Dalmatia in Lazio offers the historiographical essay published in 2015 in pdf format. An excellent book for the seriousness of the research and the skills of the authors: 145 pages to read to understand what happened in Venezia Giulia after the Second World War, from the tragedy of September 8th to the communist Yugoslav occupation. And Istria, Fiume. Zara, the reasons for an exodus, the memories...
Insufficient and late legislation for Adriatic exiles
Again with considerable delay, to improve the deficient legislation on refugee assistance, the Italian government enacted a series of legislative provisions. Law No. 137/1952, which also provided for the allocation of public housing to refugees, was followed in July 1952 by Law No. 1010 ("Provisions for refugees from Venezia Giulia who already owned warehouses and monopoly shops"), the purpose of which was to offer a series of benefits to encourage them to continue their businesses in their home territories. In 1956, a new decree, No. 1117, was issued, which, to address the scourge of unemployment, granted refugees...
