From Schio, Tullio Binaghi sends us this testimony. It concerns his experience in prison (from 1945 to 1946) in Slovenia. His account is rounded out by a list of the people he encountered during that painful time. …

These pages speak of a life filled with love. The grateful love of Slavic peasants toward my father, who had proven to be a good and just man. The filial love toward a mother struggling to get by. Love ...

Luciano Piasentier was born in Pula on March 12, 1924. He had always had a passion for singing, but initially it remained merely a hobby. In 1942, he worked at the Pula Arsenal as an electrician. After his exodus on February 2, 1947, …

During his frequent trips to Trieste from France, where he lives, Sergio Gnesda never fails to organize "Istrian" days to return to his beloved Verteneglio, but not only, and take photographs of places dear to him and places he only now ...

In the industrial area of ​​Monfalcone, navigable canals create a unique geography. Warehouses and boats, cranes and masts guide the enthusiast and the curious into a niche world of incredible charm and ties to tradition. Among boats undergoing repair ...

We offer you a testimony of his days as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, recounted in the book "Il dio brot" by Gianni Giuricin, author of numerous publications and writings on the subject, some autobiographical and some stories of members of his family ...

The first escape from Zadar, 1941. At the altar of Our Lady of the Rosary in the Church of St. Simeon in Zadar, at 6:30 a.m. on April 15, 1940, the parish priest, Don Giacomo Foretich Colenda, celebrated the wedding of Caterina Fradelli and Vittorio Varisco. During ...

I was born in Pula on June 14, 1934, on Via Monte Cappelletta. My parents were "regnicoli," that is, from the old Italian provinces, who moved to Pula and worked at the local tobacco factory. They married in Pula in 1929. The occupation ...

Among old documents relating to the history of Neresine, the diary of Commander Giovanni Zvelich was found, written daily from the day of his kidnapping and deportation to Germany, along with that of 29 other Neresine residents. The diary, I believe, is of historical interest, …

The living situation for my family of four, housed in my aunt's house after the exodus, was very difficult. We were confined to a small room of perhaps 8 square meters, which barely fit a double bed and a camp bed.