Historical Calendar January 14
1943 - During World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and...
“I share the truth of Haxhi Lleshi’s accusations of slander and fiction against my family, from the period of the War until…”/ The reaction of the former Minister of Education and Culture, before the 90s
From Tefta Cami The first part Memorie.al / Haxhi Lleshi, former Minister...
“In 1988, Sulo Gradeci called me and asked me for the ‘Volkswagen’ that I had at home, to be exhibited at the ‘Pyramid’, as Enver’s car during the War, but…”/ The rare testimony of the durrsak
By Belina Budini -The unknown history of Qirko Ciko's "Wolsvagen", which was taken from Sulo Gradeci and returned to...
“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
By Filip Guraziu Part eleven Memorie.al / One of the new, "liberal" measures of the Albanian communist regime was...
Historical Calendar January 13
1910 - The first public broadcast on a radio takes place. During this broadcast, the opera Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci...
“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...
“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...
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
By Elena Gjika Merlika – Kruja Memorie.al / Tepelena...! A forced labor concentration field, a camp, populated by two thousand...