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When the wolves came down from the mountains in Istria
In "Sono scesi i lupi dai monti" (Mursia, pp. 204, € 17,00) the Author has succeeded in the difficult task of recounting with delicate calm one of the most tragic events in recent Italian history: the horrible death of thousands of Istrians and Julian-Dalmatians, many of whom were thrown alive into the foibe. The pages of Piero Tarticchio (Gallesano - Pola 1936) are full of personal memories full of that humanity and pity that only wise men can express. In the manner of a diary, the Author narrates his life from childhood marked by the atrocities of war and the massacre of seven family members, starting with his father, by Tito's communists. The crime of the...
“We Istrians torn to pieces by wolves”
Seven family members killed, including the father who disappeared into thin air. Tarticchio's book is published, a witness to the horrors of Tito "Dad looked at me and his eyes merged with mine". Piero Tarticchio keeps the memory of that eternal gaze engraved in his mind. It was the night between 4 and 5 May 1945, the last time he saw his father, the night he was taken away by Tito's political police. Three armed men and a plainclothes henchman had burst into the house to take him away with his wrists tied with wire: "If I lived a thousand years I would never forget it". Piero Tarticchio today fully recounts in a book coming out for "Mursia", The wolves have come down from...
Foibe, Ambrogino d'oro denied to a witness of the tragedy
Ambrogino d’oro denied to Piero Tarticchio, an Istrian exile who suffered the tragedy of the foibe and spent his life making this unhealed wound in Italian history known. Grandson of Don Angelo, massacred by partisans. “Bitter”, “disappointed”, “angry”. The Istrian exiles have good reason to be so for the lack of recognition. There is no place in Milan among those awarded the Ambrogino for a witness to the horror perpetrated by Tito’s communist partisans against Italians. A missed opportunity for Mayor Giuseppe Sala: “The civic merit to the grandson of Don Angelo, massacred and thrown into the foibe, would have been a great gesture, political and moral, from...
A piece of Istria in Milan
"From today, this small portion of Milanese land, of city territory, will become our land. It will become Istria, it will become Fiume and it will become Dalmatia. Thank you Milan. Long live Italy!" Piero Tarticchio, an Istrian exile who had seven relatives killed in the infoiba, including his father and the priest Don Angelo Tarticchio, was deeply moved at the end of the speech he gave at the inauguration of the monument that Milan has dedicated to those killed in the infoiba, the deportees and the exiles. Since Saturday 10 October, in fact, in Piazza Repubblica (formerly Piazza Fiume) there has been a stone and marble plaque, 4 metres high and 2 metres wide, designed by Tarticchio himself, "A perenne...
