“When they told him that his house was burning, Ilia screamed; what do you say, son!? The boys would be my great pain, but the library, the whole of Albania would feel…” / The unknown history of the Dilo dynasty
Memorie.al / If you go today to Sheper, where the well-known teacher and researcher, Ilia Dilo, was born and died...
“They assigned me Shyqëri Çoku as an investigator, who ordered the police officers to untie my hands, and as a man from Shkodër, I told him: ‘Nadja e mirë’ (Good morning/good day), but he…” / The memoirs of the former Bishop of Shkodër, Dom Zef Simoni
From Dom Zef Simoni Part eleven Memorie.al publishes an unknown study by Dom Zef Simoni, titled "The Persecution of the...
“My father was killed from behind by his own partisan comrades, and likewise my brother, a soldier, in 1970, after they forced him to kill a deputy (member of parliament) who was going to flee (defect) in ’63…”/The rare testimony of Limoz Dizdari
Memorie.al / The eating of "heads" within the species began since the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War and, to this day,...
“Even though Pjetër Bogdani had died, he was exhumed by the Ottomans and thrown as dog food in the middle of Prishtina’s square, after…”/The unknown history of the capital of Kosovo, according to historian Namani
By Dr. Qazim Namani Part One Memorie.al / Prishtina are situated between the small streams of Prishtina, Vellusha, and Matiçan,...
“In the attempt at 8:00 o’clock, Fatmir Ismail Duro, a resident of Orman – Pojani, Korçë, was killed for illegal border crossing, while his friend…”/How the Australian dream of two young men from Korçë was extinguished in ’90
Memorie.al / On the evening of June 9-10, 1990, two friends from Orman Pojani, Korçë, aged 25 and 27 respectively,...
“When my brother, Gjergji, accidentally met an English tourist, Stefan Vinter, who he brought home, I was summoned to the Branch (of the Security/Secret Police), where Feçor Shehu and Xheudet Miloti…” / The memoirs of the former Bishop of Shkodra
From Dom Zef Simoni Part ten Memorie.al publishes an unknown study by Dom Zef Simoni, titled "The Persecution of the...
“In 1878, there was a piano in Kolë Çoba’s house in Shkodër, and his children studied in the conservatories of Italy…” / The unknown history of the aristocratic family that was persecuted by the communist regime
Memorie.al / In the life of the city of Shkodër, the Çoba family is among the most important names. Today,...