“My uncle, Akile Tasi, after staying for 30 years at ‘Vatra’ in the USA as the editor of ‘Dielli,’ returned to the hom

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“May God help you and I believe that friends will not let you down. I wish that the grave will not be lost. The clothes I had with me in prison, you have…” / Letter before the execution of the loyalist of King Zog, Major Murat Basha.

By Eugen SHEHU Memorie.al / Murat Basha was born in the village of Plan të Bardhë in Mat in the...

“Despite the wood you gave him, since Mestani, an old man with egoism and ambitions, who believes he is a great man, he holds resentment against you and attempts to…” / An unknown letter of Enver to Gjin Marku, April ’44.”

By Zylyftar Hoxha Memorie.al / Although 72 years have passed since the creation and the commemoration of the 72nd anniversary...

“When I opened the envelope and saw that ‘Shpati’ was calling for the communist circles to unmask and hit ‘Balli’, I gave it to Abaz Ermenji, who…” / A rare testimony from the USA, of a former Ballist from Berat.

From Prof. Assoc. Dr. Thanas L. Gjika ...

“For 27 consecutive years, the family lived in a straw hut without windows, where Sokrat Shyti was subjected to hard labor, and three times a day, he reported to the local authority…”/ Reflections of the renowned writer.

By Agron Tufa Memorie.al / Writer Sokrat Shyti is the “great unknown” who has just revealed the tip of the...

“When I told him that I am a journalist, and that we are both patriots, both from Korça, he replied to me: ‘I am a patriot with all Albanians, but…’/ The unknown story of the most famous Albanian in Boston and the USA.”

By ROZI THEOHARI - REQUIEM FOR...

“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...

“In 1934, when the High Commissioner for Refugees at the League of Nations requested the Albanian Kingdom to settle a number of Jews from Germany in Albania, he…” / Reflections of the former leader of Legaliteti.

January 14, 2025

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“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.