Ricordo Museum commemorating the victims of Phoibe.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill to establish a new museum in Rome to commemorate the victims of the Foibe massacre.
The creation of a zoological museum was proposed by Meloni and Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano to remember the genocide committed by Tito’s partisans in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia during and after World War II.
The culture ministry said in a statement that the museum’s aim is to “preserve and renew the memory of the tragedy of the Italians and all the victims of Phoebe, the exodus of the Istrians, Fiumes and Dalmatians from their lands.” It aims to reconstruct and tell the history of the Italian people of World War II, Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia, and the more complex story of Italy’s eastern borders. ”
Il Consiglio dei Ministri ha approvato il disegno di Legge che istituisce il “Museo del Ricordo.”
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“The creation of the museum is a historical obligation to the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles who suffered under Tito’s communist dictatorship,” said San Giuliano. “These tragedies must not be forgotten. They are an important part of Italy’s history and need to be known and understood by new generations.”
A total of 8 million euros has been allocated for the establishment of the Ricordo Museum for the period 2024-2026, and the region of Lazio will provide the building to host the museum.
The news came a week before Giorno del Ricordo. Giorno del Ricordo is a memorial day held every February 10th in memory of the victims of the Foibe Massacre and the Italian exiles who left their homeland for Dalmatia and Istria after 1943.
The genocide, which occurred in 1943 and occurred again in the weeks before and after the end of the war in 1945, was carried out by the Yugoslav communists who occupied the Istrian peninsula during the last two years of the war against the mainly local Italian population. It was done against.
The exact number of victims is unknown, but up to 15,000 people may have been killed, many tortured, shot, or forced into deep, narrow car sinkholes and cracks known as foibe. Died.