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The Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste
The Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste was the only Nazi concentration camp in Italy equipped with a crematorium. It functioned as a "mixed" camp, that is, a collection center for the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz and other extermination camps. Therefore, it served primarily as a transit camp, but it also functioned as a detention and police camp for the imprisonment, torture, and elimination of Resistance fighters, captured partisans, and civilian hostages. For this latter purpose, the camp was also equipped with a crematorium for the incineration of the victims' bodies, obtained by converting the previous facility.
Fifteen new stumbling stones in Trieste
In Trieste, 15 new stumbling stones have been installed and for the first time in Italy, one has been dedicated to a Rom deportee, on the joint initiative of the Union of Young Italian Jews and the Union of Romani Communities in Italy. It is Romano Held, a 17-year-old musician deported to Dachau in 1944, freed at the end of the war but who died shortly after due to the precarious health conditions caused by the mistreatment suffered during his imprisonment. It should be noted that stumbling stones are usually placed in front of the deportee's home, but in the case of Romano, it was significantly chosen to place it in Piazza della Libertà in Trieste...
The Italian Army in Defense of the Jews of Bosnia (1941-'43)
This research is based on a thesis by Marica Dukic, entitled The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina and their Literature in the 2014th Century, discussed at the University of Friuli in the academic year 2015-2010. The supervisor of this original investigation was Professor Natka Badurina, from the University of Udine, Degree Course in Foreign Languages and Literatures. The graduate student made use of recent literature on the field in Bosnian, as is the case for the author Jakov Danon, with his: Memoari na holokaust Jevreja Bosanske Krajine, from XNUMX. We are honored to publish in the blog, with some additions, the part of his thesis referring to the Shoah. The...
The Jews in Gorizia, Istria and Dalmatia: a story of coexistence and sharing
Continuing in the wake of a fruitful cultural collaboration that began in recent years, the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia organized a conference dedicated to the Day of Remembrance at the Casa del Ricordo (a structure that it manages on behalf of Roma Capitale together with the Società di Studi Fiumani), involving as speaker Claudio Procaccia (opening photo), Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage and Activities of the Jewish Community of Rome. “The Jews in Venezia Giulia and the Eastern Adriatic: coexistence and sharing” is the topic that was discussed on Thursday 3 February: the conference is visible...
Contextualizing the Foibe among the massacres of the twentieth century
The Federation of Associations of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Exiles reiterates its esteem for Dr. Stefano Versari, under whose direction of the Department for the Educational System of Instruction and Training the work of the Ministry of Education - Associations of Exiles Table has achieved particularly significant results, from the consolidated national training seminars to the summer high-level training school, passing through the regional seminars that continue to take place in compliance with the current restrictions. The complete reading of the circular for which he was hit with protests shows that the incriminated passage is perfectly...
The memory of Marcel Tyberg and Prof. Enrico Mihich, exile from Fiume
Marcel Tyberg was a musician of Polish Jewish origins (Tee-berg) born in Vienna on January 27, 1893, who was eliminated in the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz on December 31, 1944. Tyberg from Vienna to Abbazia (Fiume) Marcel Tyberg came from a family of musicians, studied music from a very young age and had the opportunity to frequent the virtuoso violinist Jan Kubelik in Vienna and to become friends with another violinist, later conductor of the Viennese orchestra Rodolfo Lipizer. In 1916 the Tyberg family, in the midst of the world conflict, moved from Vienna to Abbazia, a splendid seaside tourist resort a few kilometers from Fiume and known as the “pearl...
Remembrance Day is not a contrast to the Shoah
Regarding the statements of the Rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena, Prof. Tomaso Montanari, it is sad to note that the history of the eastern border is always interpreted in the context of fascism and the political attack on the right, forgetting centuries of Italian presence, history, culture and tradition on the coasts of the eastern Adriatic, as well as the adhesion to the Risorgimento of native ruling classes and volunteers. Even the history of art, a discipline that Montanari teaches, shows that the coasts of the eastern Adriatic have maintained a deep cultural and identity bond with the Italian peninsula over the centuries, in terms of commissions and artists who...
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...
