“Skender Daja, who was to be shot a few days later, on the first day of the revolt, secretly talked with a soldier of the

May 22, 2023

1906 - Henrik Ibsen, 78, dies. Ibsen was a Norwegian theater playwright and director. As one of the founders of...

Photograph of the city of Korça in the years 1910-1940

May 22, 2023

“Gogo Nushi, in the relations addressed to Enver, writes: We saw this terrorist spirit in Tirana, where we killed 60 people…”/ When the communists carried out the “Night of St. Bartholomew”, in November 1944

From Uran Butka Memorie.al / After the massacres caused by the civil war throughout Albania, it was the turn of...

“King Zog invited as friends for dinner at his house in Alexandria, King Farouk; King Abdulla; the President of Syria, Shyqri Kueatly; the Mufti of Jerusalem and…/ Memoirs of Colonel Hysen Selman

March 4, 2026

By Hysen Selmani Part thirty six Memorie.al/ European and American press have often addressed the subject of the memories of...

“I shudder when I remember broken human bones, not metaphorical, found here and there, in the holes of Dajti Mountain, in the Ballshi camp, Spaç camp, in the Burrel prison yard and…”/ Reflections of a former political prisoner

“Kola from the Shkodra Highlands had been held in the gallery for a week and the command didn’t tell the family that he came to the meeting, but when we got him out after two weeks…”/ Shocking confession about Spaçi prison

Memorie.al / Kola had been dead for a week, and from the corner of the terrace where the appeal was...

Historical Calendar May 22

1947 - During the Cold War, Truman's Doctrine enters into force, helping Turkey, Greece, and Greece politically, economically, and militarily....

“When Pal Zefi asked, ‘Is there any Albanian left alive to defend the honor of the Albanian?’, Pavllo Popa and Paulin Vata…” / Reflections of the journalist on the anniversary of the Spaç Revolt

“I tell you the three days of the horror of the Spaci revolt and how that horrible event was warned, with the deaths that will happen there, since a week before, by…”/ Testimony of the former political prisoner

By Ylber Merdani Memorie.al / "Something was about to happen, but exactly what, no one could know. All of...

Photographs with different views from Gjirokastra in 1910-1930

“Extradite us Jakomoni and General Dalmaco, as they have …” / Enver’s letter sent to the International Commission on War Criminals in London in 1945.

“When Mehmet Shehu, with my letter in hand, entered Enver’s office and said; see what Pandi Kristo’s daughter wrote to me, he is furious…”/ Memories of the daughter of the former minister, the founder of the PKS

March 12, 2026