“When he asked the British embassy servant, Qazim Kukeli, what he could do for him, he said; nothing, just speak well of A

By Zylyftar Hoxha Memorie.al / Although many diplomats and Albanologists, foreign friends and well-wishers have made an extraordinary, incomparable contribution...

“The day the revolt broke out, the guard officer was a Matjan, Asllan Kurti, he shot Kosta Gjordeni, after…”/ The unknown side of the Qafë-Barit revolt, according to its main organizers, former political prisoners

“The Ministry of Interior had information that a mass escape was being prepared in the Qafë-Bar camp and it staged the event of May 22, 1984, because…”/ Reflections of the former main protagonists of the revolt

By Skënder Tufa Part Four Memorie.al / After the amnesty of 1982 and after the murder of Rexhep Geci, the...

“During 22 years in prison, I have seen horrors with suicides, like the Dibrani Maliq Skuka in the Rubik camp, who covered himself with a blanket and gouged out his eyes with his nails…”! / The horrors of Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship

By Uran Kalakulla Part Ten Nazism and Communism Memorie.al / Nazism lasted 12 years, while Stalinism lasted twice as long....

“The day the revolt broke out, the guard officer was a Matjan, Asllan Kurti, he shot Kosta Gjordeni, after…”/ The unknown side of the Qafë-Barit revolt, according to its main organizers, former political prisoners

By Skënder Tufa Part Three Memorie.al / After the amnesty of 1982 and after the murder of Rexhep Geci, the...

“After 34 years, when the grave of Father Serafini was opened by nurse Marie, a Catholic believer, who had buried him herself, it was found…”/ The sad story of the friar who died under the torture of the Security Service in 1947

“In the cells of Durrës, they brought me a new investigator, Lieutenant Colonel Irakli Kocani, a ‘gorilla’ who interrogated me after midnight and with a board he kept on the table…”/ Testimony of Uran Kalakulla

By Uran Kalakulla Part Nine Nazism and communism Memorie.al / Nazism lasted 12 years, while Stalinism lasted twice as...

“When I refused to sign the indictment, the deputy head of the Durrës Internal Affairs Branch, Kapllan Sako, stood up to punch me in the face, but…”/ Testimony of the former political prisoner

By Uran Kalakulla Part Eight Nazism and Communism Memorie.al / Nazism lasted 12 years, while Stalinism lasted twice as long....

“I turned the shelter from the dictatorship era, which would protect us from the imaginary enemy, into a winery, where I produce wine, brandy and other drinks, because…”!/ The rare story of the famous sports doctor

By Uvil Zajmi Memorie.al / To transform a place of refuge from the dictatorship into a winery, you must have...

“When the wounded Kosta Gjordeni shouted; ‘communists, criminals, convicts H. Tabaku, L. Shkëmbi and N. Skrapari are approaching, but the barrage of weapons…”/ Memories of former prisoners of Qafë-Bar

By Skënder Tufa Part Two Memorie.al / After the amnesty of 1982 and after the murder of Rexhep Geci, the...

“In the cell of Region No. 2, I found two people, the younger one, Mihallaq Havaleja, from Tirana, the other Qemali, from Vlora, and from their gestures, I understood that they were…”/ Testimony of a former political prisoner

By Uran Kalakulla Part Seven Nazism and communism Memorie.al / Nazism lasted 12 years, while Stalinism lasted twice as...

“When the Prosecutor asked him if he had any message to leave, the convict replied: I have nothing, long live the Party, the Republic and Stalin. He judged me and sentenced me…”! / The last words of Koci Xoxe, before being shot, June 11, ’49