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Gorizia, heroes without borders
In many areas on the border between Italy and Slovenia, there was - finally - a climate of osmosis. The measures introduced to limit the pandemic changed everything. Neither Rome nor Ljubljana were too worried. But there were those who, with creativity, "took the field" in favor of the complexity, interests and relationships of the cross-border areas. It was a schizophrenic year on the eastern border. The pandemic erased many of the certainties of a population that had begun to believe that the border no longer existed. On the one hand, comforting signals arrived from Gorizia, where local administrators did everything they could to continue to...
April 25th was not a liberation for all Italians
On the day the Northern Italy National Liberation Committee unleashed the insurrection in Milan and in the other main cities now abandoned by the retreating Germans, in the far north-east the situation was very different. The Anglo-American troops were far from Venezia Giulia because, once the Gothic Line had been broken through, the priority was to reach the Brenner Pass and from there quickly get to Bavaria, where it was feared that the last desperate German resistance would be concentrated. Instead, the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia was marching at forced marches, more interested in reaching Trieste, Gorizia, Pola and Fiume than in regaining control of cities...
Presentation of “Mediterranean Eyes”
This presentation by Christophe Palomar - Dario Fertilio - Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin, Mediterranean Eyes, Pendragon, Bologna 2019, curated by the provincial committee of Gorizia of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia (ANVGD), is part of the project of the Municipality of Gorizia and the autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia entitled "Young people on the trail of memory", and is therefore preceded by a didactic part (25 minutes) that through geographical maps and images prepared by the President of the committee, Prof. Maria Grazia Ziberna - a teacher of Literature in a high school - will also allow students to easily follow and understand the...
The trial on the foibe was blocked
Sergio Dini, former head of the military prosecutor's office in Padua: «We had identified those responsible but the investigation was transferred from the Supreme Court and disappeared. The commander of the Borovnica concentration camp? He received an Italian pension until his death» by Andrea Pasqualetti - Il Corriere della Sera - 11/02/2021 Source: Storia In Rete Doctor Sergio Dini, when you were the military prosecutor of Padua you investigated the foibe. It was the early 1945s. What did you discover? «First of all we had identified the commander of the Slovenian partisans of the IX Corpus, the partisan unit of Tito's army that between May and June XNUMX had occupied Gorizia, arranging for the arrest and killing...
Gorizia European Capital of Culture also concerns Istria
CAPITAL OF CULTURE, WITH THE ITALIAN UNION THE INITIATIVES WILL ALSO ARRIVE IN ISTRIA Ziberna met with President Tremul: “Gorizia and Nova Gorica are already becoming an example for other border areas” Studying new initiatives together to bring the message of the first historic European Capital of Cross-Border Culture also to Istria. This is the proposal that the mayors of Gorizia and Nova Gorica, Rodolfo Ziberna and Klemen Miklavic, received from the president of the Italian Union, Maurizio Tremul, an organization that represents the Italian community in Slovenian and Croatian Istria. “Our goal – said Tremul – has always been to promote and...
Gorizia European Capital of Remembrance
The Day of Remembrance is not only intended to commemorate the victims of the massacres committed by Tito's communist partisans, but also a moment of reflection on the centuries-old presence of Italianness in the eastern Adriatic, as well as a perspective on the future of this border region: the city of Gorizia embodies all these elements. This conviction emerged at the end of a video call between the mayor of the Julian capital Rodolfo Ziberna and Giuseppe de Vergottini, President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles and of Coordinamento Adriatico APS, an association that deals with research and in-depth analysis...
Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025 together with Nova Gorica
WITH THE CAPITAL OF CULTURE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH FOR OUR CITY It was a difficult challenge, really. Because becoming the European Capital of Culture is not a game, you have to present a strong proposal, capable of convincing an international jury. We beat very strong opponents like Ljubljana and Piran and we succeeded thanks to the uniqueness of our territory, our border. Neither Gorizia nor Nova Gorica, alone, for different reasons, could have done it. But what will happen now? Now there are many projects to develop, in the territory, which will contribute to relaunching the economy and employment, a bit like what happened in Matera. There will be...
Ziberna calls for a mixed commission on the Slovenian foibe
In a letter to Conte, Di Maio and Fedriga, the mayor of Gorizia hopes “that the truth may finally be known” The news of the discovery of new sinkholes in Slovenia, containing hundreds of bodies killed by Tito’s troops after the war ended in 1945, including people from Gorizia, are being followed with great interest by the mayor of Gorizia, Rodolfo Ziberna who, for decades, together with the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Committee of relatives of deportees to Yugoslavia, has been waging an uninterrupted battle to know the truth about the sinkholes that occurred after the war. “But, above all,” he remarks, “we ask to know the places where many of these...
The action of the OZNA (later UDBA) continued even after June 1945
TRIESTE – “Liberation Day from Yugoslav Occupation”. June 12, 1945 is only the beginning of a long struggle to re-establish democracy and bring Trieste back to Italy. After June 12, 1945, which marks the beginning of the liberation from the Yugoslav nightmare, there was no real peace and security in Trieste not only for the Italians, but also for elements of the Slovenian minority not in line with Tito's communists. From new archive documents and journalistic sources of the time, it can be deduced how for a long time, in Trieste and in other parts of Italy, the various Yugoslav sections for the Defense of the People (OZNA and then...
The celebrations of June 12th in Trieste, Gorizia and Monfalcone
Official celebrations for the solemn anniversary of June 12, newly established by the respective municipal administrations to commemorate the day in 1945 when the occupation of the Yugoslav partisan troops ended, took place today in Trieste, Gorizia and Monfalcone. For forty days they carried out deportations, killings in the foibe and persecutions not only of former fascists, but even of local anti-fascist patriotic elements opposed to the annexation of Venezia Giulia to Tito's communist Yugoslavia. The initiative was launched by the Mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza, whose council approved his proposal to establish the "Liberation Day of the City of...
