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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...
The book that offends the foibati
The Laterza publishing house has published a book by the historian Eric Gobetti entitled "And then the foibe?", an offensive title towards the thousands of Italians killed by Tito's communist partisans that comes out a few days after the "Day of Remembrance" by Francesco Giubilei - 29/12/2020 Source: Il Giornale Not judging a book by its cover is the first lesson you learn in a publishing house. The second is that the title and the cover are fundamental aspects for selling a book. This is what the Laterza publishing house must have thought when they chose the title of the new text by the historian Eric Gobetti to be released in mid-January "And then the foibe?"....
A film celebrates Alida Valli
"Alida", a documentary film by Mimmo Verdesca on the life of Alida Valli, has been selected at the Cannes Film Festival by Fausto Biloslavo - 06/08/2020 - Source: Il Giornale "Too many times, like my city, I had changed skin, but I was born and will die Italian", writes Alida Valli in her diary. The city is Pola, where she was born in 1921 and never wanted to return after the end of the Second World War and the occupation of Tito's Yugoslav partisans. Her words come to life again thanks to the passionate interpretation of Giovanna Mezzogiorno in the documentary film "Alida" by Mimmo Verdesca selected at the Cannes Film Festival. In view of the centenary of her birth...
The turning point of Trieste: the solemn memory of the end of the red occupation
After the end of the Second World War, Tito's troops occupied Trieste. A nightmare that lasted 40 days, culminating in the foibe by Fausto Biloslavo - 28/05/2020 - Source: Il Giornale In Trieste, the definitive liberation from the horrors of the Second World War did not come on April 25, but on June 12, 1945 after 40 days of occupation of the Julian capital by Tito's troops. And now this date has become an official anniversary thanks to a proposal by Mayor Roberto Dipiazza. On June 12, Trieste will solemnly remember "the day of the liberation of the city from Yugoslav occupation". Berlin celebrates the fall of the wall, but the Julian capital is the...
