“In 1988, Sulo Gradeci called me and asked me for the ‘Volkswagen’ that I had at home, to be exhibited at the

January 12, 2023

By Belina Budini -The unknown history of Qirko Ciko's "Wolsvagen", which was taken from Sulo Gradeci and returned to...

“On April 2, ’91, I remember the daughter of the great artist Gjok Vata who did a heroic act: she jumped on the tank that the Interior Department had brought there and…”/ Testimony of the researcher of the crimes of communism

“At the moment when a young man was putting dynamite on the neck of dictator Hoxha’s bust, a former police officer took out his pistol and shot…”/ Testimony of the former mayor of Shkodra

January 12, 2023

By Filip Guraziu Memorie.al / One of the new, "liberal" measures of the Albanian...

Historical Calendar January 13

January 12, 2023

1910 - The first public broadcast on a radio takes place. During this broadcast, the opera Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci...

“I showed the poems I wrote against the regime when I was interned in Shtyllas to a fellow sufferer, but he immediately went to the Internal Branch and…”/ The sad testimony of the former political prisoner

“I suffered 21 years in the political prisons of Enver Hoxha, but after the 1990s, due to economic difficulties, I was forced and became a policeman, a prison guard, for 20 years…”/ The rare testimony of Neim Pashaj, from Tepelena

From Briken Metaj Memorie.al / He were only 19 years old, when he ended up in the dungeons of Enver...

“Commander Bino Binaj, after shooting and killing Vata, said to the soldier Hysni Syla; put a bullet in the head, this other one, don’t let him squirm, but the skater, Bashkimi,…”/ The macabre event in Velipoja, May 1990

“After they dragged us with the border boat, five meters before we reached the shore, the post commander shot and killed my brother, and me…”/ The rare testimony of a villager from Velipoja, about the event of May 1990

Memorie.al / 32 years ago, the two brothers Vatë and Gjekë Beqi from the village of Beks in Velipoja, took...

“On January 14, 1990, in the center of Shkodra, the bust of Stalin was full of Security people, Keti Koçi, Laura Keçi and Huana Kurti, with the 4-year-old child…”/ Testimony of the former mayor of Shkodra

By Filip Guraziu The tenth part ...

Historical Calendar January 12, 2023

1944 - Fatos Kongoli, Albanian writer and mathematician, was born in Elbasan. Kongoli studied mathematics, partly in Beijing, partly in...

“In that camp, there were mothers with stoic determination who, without shedding a tear, buried their children with their own hands and…”/ The shocking testimony of the Italian woman who suffered 46 years of internment

January 10, 2023

By Elena Gjika Merlika – Kruja Memorie.al / Tepelena...! A forced labor concentration field, a camp, populated by two thousand...

“The doctor was shocked by the photo on the wall, as it resembles a corpse from the morgue where he practiced as a student and when his fiancee told him that he was his father, he died…”/ The shocking story of the Albanian-Italian family

January 10, 2023

From Ylli Polovina Memorie.al / Dhimitër Papastefani in the fall of 1963, he had just finished his studies as...

“Commander Bino Binaj, after shooting and killing Vata, said to the soldier Hysni Syla; put a bullet in the head, this other one, don’t let him squirm, but the skater, Bashkimi,…”/ The macabre event in Velipoja, May 1990

January 10, 2023