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The Key. Foibe, the Edge of Memory
Federico D'Addato's short novel, The Key. Foibe, the Border of Memory, opens in a tidy two-room apartment, where the life of a man, an elderly Julian-Dalmatian exile, unfolds between the routine of the workshop and the burden of a memory that has never found peace. The news of Tito's death shakes him. He feels "indebted" to those who never returned, a survivor carrying a rusty key in his pocket that no longer opens anything except the memories of a home violently torn apart. Driven by a friend's words about the need to listen to one's conscience and the need for truth, the protagonist embarks on a physical and spiritual journey toward...
The foibe explained to children
There is a piece of Italian history that still struggles to find space in school textbooks and, more generally, in the collective memory. It is the story of Istrians, Fiume, Dalmatians: men and women born and raised in a borderland and who during the Second World War experienced the drama of the foibe first and then the exodus. Like Erminia, who was only twelve years old when she saw a dear family friend disappear into the terrifying Karst chasms. Graziano, whose soul is still entangled in that night when he fell into the endless void of a foiba, from which he miraculously survived. Italia, who holds her red teapot in her hands, symbol of the day when,...
Istria and Dalmatia, an Adriatic passion
The story of a long passion, of a long ordeal in the Adriatic lands: that of the Italians of Istria and Dalmatia, civilizers of those lands since the times of the Serenissima Republic, until the outbreak of the opposing nationalisms in the final phase of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the opposition with the Slavic element. Thus a struggle is unleashed, instigated by Vienna according to the perverse logic of "divide and conquer", between the loyalist Slavic element that resides above all in the mountainous interiors of those lands and the Italian one prevalent in the cities and along the coast, to arrive at the Italian genocide at the hands of the National Communists during the last war (purging...
Foibe, Liliana Segre's solidarity with the victims
The "Day of Remembrance" on which they are commemorated is a warning against dictatorships of every color and latitude. Dearest Mrs. Segre, when I went to school, that is, in the 50s and 60s, historians of the post-war regime shamefully forgot about the foibe so dear to comrade Tito, where it seems certain that no one came back as instead happened to you, fortunately, and I am pleased, from a concentration camp. So I ask you what you do on February 10, the Day of Remembrance. If Hitler and Mussolini were certainly dictators, what can you tell me about Stalin, his purges and his re-education centers affectionately called Gulags? Enzo Bernasconi This letter from...
…of the twilights in September, all the ruin
The writings of the great poet from Trieste Lina Galli collected here, edited by the historian Roberto Spazzali, are mainly based on the author's autographed notes meticulously collected between 1945 and 1957 through the examination of the press, interviews, memoirs, testimonies, annotations. All this material was donated to the Regional Institute for Istrian, Fiumana and Dalmatian Culture by Luigi Galli and Maria Pia Galli on 22 February 2006, his heirs, and was reorganized by the historian Roberto Spazzali a few months later for study and research purposes. These texts fill a gap in the testimonial history of the events that occurred in Istria in the autumn of 1943, in the sense that...
Hot Chocolate for Two, Nunzia Gionfriddo's Book for Remembrance Day
On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance, to not forget the massacres of the foibe and the Istrian exodus, “Cioccolata calda per due” by the Neapolitan author Nunzia Gionfriddo, published by Phoenix Publishing, arrives in bookstores. On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance, celebrated every year on February 10, to not forget the massacres of the foibe and the Istrian exodus, “Cioccolata calda per due” by the Neapolitan author Nunzia Gionfriddo, published by Phoenix Publishing and winner of the Premio Milano International, arrives in bookstores in the new updated version. A complex novel, vaguely romantic, even if the title is misleading. The title in fact refers to a love story, in...
Norma Cossetto, Porzûs, Vergarolla. Faces and stories of forgotten massacres
Raimo and Montanari permitting, let's return to the denied tragedy of the Italians of Istria, Dalmatia and Venezia Giulia. Which only an imbecile can claim has anything to do with the Shoah, except that it was an immense tragedy. Of which the foibe are the apex. Continue on http://www.ilfoglio.it/uffa/2022/02/22/news/norma-cossetto-porzu-s-vergarolla-volti-e-storie-di-stragi-dimenticate-3715630/ Giampiero Mughini Source: Il Foglio - 22/02/2022 A nice article by Giampiero Mughini on Il Foglio. Mughini, remembering the Dalmatian Enzo Bettiza and his book 'Esilio', defends the Day of Remembrance from Montanari, Raimo, Barbero and others and with it the immense tragedy of the people...
Special issue of Dalmatica Magazine dedicated to the horrors of Borovnica
The dossier intended for the Paris conference of 1947 is a sad sample of atrocities "Secret - October 5, 1945 - Conditions of Italian internees in Yugoslavia with particular reference to the Borovnica camp and the military hospital of Skofja Loka both called the death camp". From the title of the first typewritten page, the report of our services that emerges from the past makes your skin crawl. "Shootings for nothing", "torture at the stake", "forced labor", "living skeletons" are the terrible words that are repeated in the testimonies of Italian soldiers captured after the war and who survived Tito's concentration camps. A classified report of horror...
Those days of pain that we must never forget
Compare April 25 and February 10. Two dates that evoke Italian history: the first celebrates "the day of liberation", the second "the day of remembrance". The last world war is over, and those two dates seem to recall two different wars fought by Italy: the first won, the second lost. And even the demonstrations are opposite: April 25 is celebrated in a triumphal way, flags in the wind that, over the years, have become increasingly red, leaving aside the tricolor, rallies praising a new morality, a new Italian man. February 10 is a day of sadness; it was difficult to introduce it into the calendar of...
Contextualizing the Foibe among the massacres of the twentieth century
The Federation of Associations of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Exiles reiterates its esteem for Dr. Stefano Versari, under whose direction of the Department for the Educational System of Instruction and Training the work of the Ministry of Education - Associations of Exiles Table has achieved particularly significant results, from the consolidated national training seminars to the summer high-level training school, passing through the regional seminars that continue to take place in compliance with the current restrictions. The complete reading of the circular for which he was hit with protests shows that the incriminated passage is perfectly...
