This book is my family's tragic story. Books like this one is very difficult for me to read time and time again but they need to be told and retold so we will always remember. ll Giorno del Ricordo is now celebrated on February 10 in order to commemorate the victims of the " foibe" ( mass graves) by the Yugoslavian-Communist regime of Tito.
February 10 is Giorno del Ricordo (Day of Remembrance) in Italy, a national holiday finally established in 2004 to commemorate the victims of the foibe ( mass graves) massacres and the Istrian–Dalmatian exodus after World War II. It honors the 300,000 of Italians forced to flee their homes in Istria, Rijeka (Fiume), and Dalmatia as my family did, by the grace of God, flee alive, just like in the story of "The Sound of Music" but hundreds of thousands did not.
February 10, the Day of Remembrance, in Italy is very important to me, as a refugee from Fiume
(presently Rijeka), who was given the privilege to come to America, the Land of the Free!
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