Remembrance day in memory
of the victims of the Foibe
[GTranslate]ROME – February 10: it is the Day of Remembrance in memory of the victims of the Foibe, of the thousands of Italians killed by the Yugoslav communist militias at the end of the Second World War in Istria, Dalmatia and Venezia Giulia. “A horror that strikes our consciences” said today the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, recalling “the suffering, the grief, the uprooting, the exodus to which tens of thousands of families were forced in the areas of the eastern border, of the Istria, Rijeka and the Dalmatian coasts are inscribed with an indelible mark in the history of the tragedy of the Second World War and its consequences “.