“In the silo with 200 convicts, he got up sleepily and talked to himself, saying that the dictatorship fell, he was callin

From Kolec Gjergji Memorie.al / Kolec Gjergji, or as he is otherwise known by the surname Vistari, was born in...

“On December 25, 1975, the RAI signal was not turned off from Dajti’s repeater and when Pope John Paul was on the screen, at the RTS director’s office, the bell rang; Hello, I’m Enver Hoxha…”/ Testimony of the former operator of Vlora

By Vasil Qesari Memorie.al/ The overthrow of the great totalitarian edifice in...

“Captain Gjon Marka Gjoni, was the pillar of the national flag”, which for five centuries in a row, was preserved in the heroic Mirdita and…”/ The words of Father Zef Valentini, at the funeral ceremony in Rome

From Ndue Oroshi Second part Memorie.al / "The door of the Kapedans of Mirdita, in the nama and za in...

Historical Calendar 23 October

1871 - Born Gjergj Fishta in Fishta, Lezha, Franciscan friar, teacher, writer, translator and also chairman of the commission for...

“Captain Gjon Marka Gjoni, a carved man, a piece in the rough skin of our race, who represents the tradition and in him the masculinity of…”/ The words of Professor Ernest Koliq, in 1966

October 21, 2022

From Ndue Oroshi The first part Memorie.al / "The door of the Kapedans...

Enver’s words: “In the meeting of the first day, I told him that; Mehmet, you don’t only have things to criticize, but…”/ The secret documents of the December 19, 1981 plenum are revealed

Dashnor Kaloçi Second part Memorie.al publishes some archival documents labeled "Sekret" taken from the Central State Archive in Tirana (fund...

“They told us he drowned himself in Vjosa and the coffin was welded, but the father did not want us to put him in the house, as an ‘enemy of the people’, while Kadri Hazbiu…”/ The mystery of the disappearance of Eng. of the Police Arms Factory in ’67

By Entela Resuli Memorie.al / Often when a certain event happens to...

“After my husband was arrested as an ‘enemy of the people’, my father-in-law left the house with a mattress on his arm and went to sleep in the store, while my brother…”/ Testimony of the dissident writer’s wife

By Mehmet Mufti Second part Memorie.al / Mehmet Muftiu were born in Tirana in 1930....

“When they told him that his son, a well-known writer, had been arrested for a letter he sent to the leadership, he said; but why didn’t the bullet hit him in the forehead during the War…”/ Testimony of the dissident writer

By Mehmet Mufti The first part Memorie.al / Mehmet Muftiu were born in Tirana...

“The movement of June ’24 was made by ten Albanian battalions, since neither Noli, nor Gurakuqi, with their party, were good enough to even go out to the market…”/ Memories of Hamid Gjylbegaj