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Requiem for Remembrance Day
From science to deficiency the boundary is thin. The difficulties encountered in the Italian panorama in dealing with “hot” issues, which bring to the fore convulsive historical moments are well known. They are even more so when these issues belong to a relatively recent past, for some perhaps still too recent to give their availability to discuss their own convictions that, however right or wrong they may seem, would certainly deserve further scientific study that sets as its sole objective the search for an absolute historical truth, without bringing into play partisanship of any kind. Objectivity in the historical discipline, for which the...
“Damnatio memoriae”
Annamaria Muiesan, from Piranese, in “My Red Suit with Bamboo Buttons” asks herself what memory is. “A tool to learn from lived experiences or to give rise to anxiety, torment, regrets?” The lived experiences. Speaking, comparing myself with relatives, friends, acquaintances, with the Exiles, there has never been anyone who said they regretted the choice they made. Never regretted having wanted to continue to belong to that Homeland in which we were born, never regretted having taken, with anguish, the terrible decision to abandon it. For me, what is memory? How do I experience it? It is certainly anxiety: That anxiety that...
The Silence of the Living
We publish this beautiful poem written by our member Giorgio Valdes from Sestu (CA) The silence of the living The gazes are bowed and the wounds bleed on the daisy field and on the boots of the torturers. A few more moments to hope to die with the caress of the sun and the wind entrusting the last breath to the oleanders in bloom. But the sinkhole is near, in it the darkness is dense as lava of horror. The vanquished implore mercy with a bullet straight to the heart. But there is only one shot in the gun, it is destined for the first in line. He will be the surrendered and silent weight dragging the train of men towards the abyss of rocks...
Train of Shame: Testimonies of Exiles
“The train was moving slowly. We left Fiume, destination Tuscany. We had to cross Italy, which we imagined to be generous and hospitable. On the cattle cars that were taking us there, there were mostly old people, women and children like me, packed in like sardines. We were cold and hungry. The little ones were crying because there was no milk. Okay - I thought - sooner or later we'll stop. The first stop, to get off and stretch our legs and to eat something, was in Bologna. Finally the station. The train slowed down little by little until it stopped. We were greeted by lots of people with red flags. The same ones Tito had. I didn't understand. Then I turned to my mother...
Toni Capuozzo: “This is how Tito’s supporters killed my father’s colleagues”
Luca Romano - Tue, 13/02/2018 A very harsh comment, without half measures. The journalist Toni Capuozzo, on Facebook, published a comment regarding the shame of Macerata and the anti-fascist march with much exaltation of the Foibe. A very harsh comment, without half measures. The journalist Toni Capuozzo, on Facebook, published a comment regarding the shame of Macerata and the anti-fascist march with much exaltation of the Foibe. Capuozzo did not like this. "I read comments that minimize, isolate, circumscribe. I do not care how many there were, who they were, whether they were isolated or ignored, those who have...
InPiù Storia dedicated to the Day of Remembrance
The supplement of “La Voce del Popolo” (daily newspaper of the Italian community in Istria, Carnaro and Dalmatia) “InPiù Storia” of Saturday 10 February 2018 is entirely dedicated to the Day of Remembrance. Here you can download the pdf of the issue: history180210
Speech by Antonio Ballarin at the Day of Remembrance
Speech by the President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, Dr. Antonio BALLARIN, at the ceremony of the Senate of the Republic for the Day of Remembrance of the Foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus. Rome, 9 February 2018 Mr. President of the Republic, Mr. President of the Senate, Madam President of the Chamber, Representatives of Parliament and the Government, Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen. Friends and Brothers of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia, Today, here, we do not celebrate a memory of things that were and are no longer there, but the Memory of facts that have extended their consequences to subsequent generations. At a distance of...
Speech by Rodolfo Ziberna on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance
Rome, Palazzo Madama, Friday 9 February 2018, 17.00:10 p.m. Mr. President of the Republic, Mr. President of the Senate, Representatives of Parliament and the Government, Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen. On 1947 February 80, as is known, that ill-fated Peace Treaty was signed in Paris between Italy and the victorious powers, that diktat, which sanctioned the mutilation of the national territory. In addition to the Colonies, together with Briga and Tenda to the west, Italy lost almost all of Venezia Giulia to the east, with the cities of Pola, Fiume, Zara and XNUMX% of the provinces of Gorizia and Trieste. From the premise it was evident that the...
On the Macerata choirs, we expect an apology from the institutions
The February 10 Committee expresses shock and indignation for what happened yesterday in Macerata. During the demonstration organized by various so-called 'anti-fascist' groups, to protest against the violence resulting from the very serious news events of the past few days, in our opinion inappropriately established on a sensitive and delicate day such as that of the Remembrance of the victims of the foibe and the subsequent Julian-Dalmatian exodus, the country witnessed a gratuitous and indecent barbarity: choirs singing "How beautiful it is to do the foibe from Trieste down". These people have in this way vilified thousands of totally innocent deaths, including many...
Remembrance Day Ceremony Livestreamed at the Senate
On the Rai website it is possible to view in streaming the institutional ceremony of the Day of Remembrance 2018, held on Friday 9 February at the Senate of the Republic:
http://www.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-520ae1ab-1189-4ef1-94e1-be72881ec1f9.html?popup
