“The first shelter of my two brothers, two cousins, and their two friends became the hut in the Munella Mountain, then they went through Fan and escaped…” / The Mystery of the Disappearance of Six People from Mirdita since 1948!
Memorie.al / Gjon Gjura is a pensioner living in the city of Laç, Kurbinit, who has reached ninety years of...
“As soon as I changed the language and spoke in Albanian instead of Italian, he was taken aback, standing there frozen, and after a few moments…”/ The Mystery of the Old Albanian Merchant I Met in Bari in ’91.
By Adela Kolea Memorie.al / Bari, Italy 1992. I had just arrived, at 18 years old, from Albania to this...
“While I was swimming in Lake Shkodra, the border guards’ bullets passed over my head, but…” / The incredible story of the Albanian who escaped in the ’90s and now runs the restaurants ‘Alba’ and ‘Zef’ in the USA.
"Memorie.al / Immigrants have sought refuge on the shores of America since the ship 'Mayflower' anchored in Plymouth in 1620....
“From Turin in ’68, they gave us a dollar and a half and in three days, 4 dollars, so you couldn’t buy even a pack of cigarettes. I wanted to get my brothers a pair of socks, but…”! / The rare testimony of the football legend from Shkodra?!
Nga Uvil Zajmi Memorie.al / It is the 60th anniversary of that special match, which remains historic for many reasons....
The French newspaper ‘Sud Ouest’ republished the secret story of Gerd Müller, along with the Albanian beauty from Hotel ‘Dajti’…/ When the European press “boils” over the fluid love of the German football legend!
By Aleko Likaj Memorie.al / An unusual long-distance love story! To the limits of the unbelievable. But not at...
“In January 1945, from Camp Barit, Mit’hat Frashëri, the leader of the ‘National Front’, and Imam Salih Myftija, of the ‘Legality’ organization, asked the American Secretary of State to…” / The unknown history of the famous cleric.
By Leonora Laçi Memorie.al / Writing about the theologian, patriot, nationalist, and Shkodra intellectual Imam Salih Myftija is not an...
“When the party secretary said, ‘Who wants to speak?’ Feçor Pirra, a brigadier and one of the most negative, megalomaniac, vengeful, unprecedentedly ignorant people, stood up and…” / A rare testimony from the USA, by an ex-internee.
From Dine Dine Memorie.al / “Hey, what are you doing to silence the complaint? Let’s not say it this way,...
“They tormented him psychologically as well, taking him to an unknown place where they put a noose around his neck, threatening to hang him and…”! / The sad story of the famous agronomist, a graduate in France.
Memorie.al / The life of Adem Beli, one of the important Albanian agronomists, told through the descriptions of his son,...