Testimonials

From Schio, Tullio Binaghi, sends us this testimony. It is about a prison experience (from 1945 to 1946) in Slovenia. His story is completed by a list of the people he had the opportunity to meet in that painful circumstance. ...

These pages speak of a life full of love. The grateful love of the Slavic peasants towards my father who had revealed himself to be a good and just man. The filial love towards a mother with her struggle to get by. The love ...

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

In his frequent trips to Trieste, from France where he lives, Sergio Gnesda does not fail to organize "Istrian" days to return to his beloved Verteneglio, but not only, and take photos of places dear to him and places that he only now ...

In the industrial area of ​​Monfalcone, navigable canals draw a particular geography. Warehouses and boats, cranes and masts guide the enthusiast and the curious into a niche world but with incredible charm and ties to tradition. Among hulls under repair ...

We offer you a testimony of the days of imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, told in the book “Il dio brot” by Gianni Giuricin, author of numerous publications and writings on the subject, partly autobiographical and partly stories of characters from his family ...

The first escape from Zadar, 1941 At the altar of the Madonna del Rosario in the Church of S. Simeone in Zadar, at 6.30 on 15 April 1940, the parish priest Don Giacomo Foretich Colenda celebrated the wedding of Caterina Fradelli and Vittorio Varisco. During ...

I was born in Pola on June 14, 1934, in via Monte Cappelletta; my parents were “regnicoli”, that is, coming from the old Italian provinces, transferred to Pola and employed at the local tobacco factory. They got married in Pola in 1929. The occupation ...

Among old papers of the history of Neresine, the diary of Commander Giovanni Zvelich was found, written daily from the day of his kidnapping and deportation to Germany, together with 29 other Neresinotti. I believe the diary has a certain historical interest, ...

The living situation of my family, composed of 4 people, hosted after the exodus in my aunt's house, was very troubled. We were forced into a small room of perhaps 8 square meters where there was barely room for a double bed and a camp bed. ...