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The Jew from Fiume Gianni Polgar tells the story of the Shoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day. The "Terenzio Mamiani" High School in Rome organized an online conference in collaboration with the Society of Fiumani Studies - Historical Museum Archive of Rijeka by Stella Defranza - 23/01/2021 Source: La Voce del Popolo Many important yet painful topics were touched upon during the online conference entitled "Remembering the Shoah", organized by the "Terenzio Mamiani" State High School in Rome in collaboration with the Society of Fiumani Studies and the Historical Museum Archive of Rijeka to remember the victims of the Holocaust. The initiative was organized with the patronage of the Lazio Region. The contact person for the Memory Project, the teacher...
The Jewish Community in the History of the Eastern Border
In 1848, while the “Spring of Peoples” raged throughout Europe, the city of Trieste remained almost inert. Almost, because, in solidarity with the Venetian uprisings that brought the Republic of San Marco to prominence, a portion of the Italian community took to the streets in the most important port of the Habsburg Empire, but the majority of the citizens remained neutral and their loyalty to Vienna earned the city the title of “Urbs fidelissima”. Faced with this disappointment, the young Giacomo Venezian, the leader of the Triestine patriots, reached the Roman Republic and died in its defense, inaugurating a sequence that would lead to numerous...
World War II: The Rescue of Jews in Yugoslavia and Dalmatia
There were approximately 78 Jews living in the territories of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia when the Nazis entered Belgrade on April 12, 1941. Most were victims of the Holocaust, but several thousand were saved thanks to the Italian army. A book reconstructs the story. 30/10/2017 - Diego Zandel During the Second World War, in the areas of former Yugoslavia occupied by Italians and Germans, Ante Pavelić's Croatian Ustasha allies were certainly not inferior in ferocity to the Nazis towards the Jews (and Serbs and Roma). Indeed, in some cases – excluding the use of crematoria – they were worse. The massacres were such that in order to...
