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Adriatic Italians gather for Remembrance Day
A historic online meeting was held between the leaders of Adriatic diaspora associations and representatives of the Italian community in the former Yugoslavia to jointly celebrate Remembrance Day. The joint event, titled "New Generation, from the Past to a Shared Future," was held on the afternoon of Wednesday, February 10, on the Zoom platform. It was a meeting that drew numerous contributions from both institutional representatives and intellectuals. Opening the discussion was Pierfrancesco Sacco, Italian Ambassador to Croatia, who emphasized that "an exclusive economic zone is taking shape between Italy and the Balkan country...
Speech by President Casellati at the 2021 Remembrance Day ceremony
Celebration of the Day of Remembrance of the Foibe massacre and the Julian-Dalmatian exodus. Speech by President Casellati at the ceremony, held at the Chamber of Deputies, in the presence of the Head of State Mattarella Wednesday 10 February 2021 Mr. President of the Republic, President Fico, Honorable Fraccaro, Honorable Members of Parliament, President De Vergottini, Dear representatives of the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, it is always a strong emotion to be here with you on the occasion of the day of remembrance. I thank President Fico, President De Vergottini and all those who have worked to ensure that, despite...
Speech by President Fico at the 2021 Remembrance Day ceremony
Good morning everyone. I greet the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Riccardo Fraccaro, my parliamentary colleagues, the President de Vergottini and the representatives of the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles. I thank you very much for having attended this ceremony on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance as I thank all those who are following it from a distance. I extend a special thanks to the Orchestra of the Conservatory of Trieste "Giuseppe Tartini" for having performed the national anthem at the opening. Today the...
Speech by Prof. de Vergottini at the 2021 Remembrance Day ceremony
Speech by Professor Giuseppe de Vergottini, President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume, and Dalmatian Exiles, at the 2021 Remembrance Day ceremony held at the Palazzo dei Gruppi Parlamentari (Rome) on Wednesday, February 10. Law No. 92 of March 30, 2004, in establishing Remembrance Day, confirmed the dramatic nature of the exodus of almost the entire Italian population of the Julian territories caused by the violence experienced after September 8, 1943, and at the end of the Second World War. Thus, the gap that had been created between the memory of the exiles and that of the entire nation was filled. We cannot fail to remember...
Statement by President Mattarella on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance 2021
Mattarella: «On the Day of Remembrance I renew to the families of the victims, the survivors, the exiles and their descendants the strong sense of solidarity and brotherhood of all Italians» Source: Presidency of the Republic The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella spoke at the celebration of "The Day of Remembrance of the Foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus", which took place in the Hall of Parliamentary Groups in Montecitorio. During the ceremony, the President of the Chamber, Roberto Fico, the President of the Senate, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, and the President of FederEsuli, Giuseppe de Vergottini, spoke. The...
Remembrance Day and the role of ANVGD
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, present in Rome since 1947 in the Giuliano-Dalmata district, where the headquarters is still present and active, boasts a branched and operational structure throughout the national territory. Prof. Donatella Schürzel, President of the provincial committee of Rome of the ANVGD Rome and national deputy vice president, talks about it in the context of her speech for the platform of the Multimedia Documentation Center of the Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance 2021, illustrating its functions and activities and retracing, with her testimony, the past to reach the...
February 10, 2021 between Remembrance and European perspective
The President of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia Renzo Codarin on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance 2021 sends a message to the institutions by choosing to do so through the platform of the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture. At the center of his speech is not only the drama of the Exodus, but also the recovery of its roots founded on the national historical memory to fit into the European perspective and the challenges of the globalized world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5GNKjL1kk
Speech by Prof. de Vergottini for the Day of Remembrance
Remembrance Day is not merely a commemoration of the victims of the massacres committed by Tito's communist partisans, but also an opportunity to reflect on the forgotten stories of so many Italians who experienced the exodus and its tragic consequences. The speech by Professor Giuseppe de Vergottini, President of the Federation of Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian Exiles' Associations, recalls the civic significance of this anniversary, placing it in the present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0eAM_qByco&t=2s
The CNI remembers the victims of the foibe and the exodus
On the eve of the Day of Remembrance, the representatives of the Italian Union and the Councils of the Italian minority of the Istrian and Coastal Mountain Regions laid a wreath at the Surani sinkhole. The President of the Assembly of the Italian Union, Paolo Demarin, launched the proposal to place a stele near the sinkhole where Norma Cossetto was killed. “A dutiful tribute to the victims of the sinkholes and the exodus, a testimony of closeness and sharing of the tragic events that have characterized our land” with this spirit the Italian national community, represented by its institutions, laid a wreath...
“The City of Sorrows” streaming for free
On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance, celebrated on February 10, starting from Sunday, February 7, Mario Bonnard's La città dolente, made in the autumn of 1948 and released the following spring, will be available for free streaming on www.adessocinema.it. Included in the list of "100 Italian films to save", the project conceived by the Giornate degli Autori, the film was restored in 2008 by the Istituto Luce in collaboration with the Cineteca Nazionale and La Cineteca del Friuli and presented the same year at the Venice Film Festival. The film, the most significant on the theme of Istrian exiles, shot in the aftermath of the exodus that...
