Historical Calendar 13 September
1956 - The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk space. RAMAC stood for the...
“In the library of Bordeaux, I found a voluminous biographical publication about Enver Hoxha, by Thomas Schreiber, on the cover, after ‘The Red Sultan’, was…”/ Reflections of the publicist of the well-known photographer from France
By Vasil Qesari Second part Memorie.al/ The overthrow of the great totalitarian edifice in Albania would leave behind, not only...
“When I turned 16, I was interned in Savër in Lushnje and put in a barangay that only had single men; it was terrible…”/ The chilling testimony of the girl who met her father, after 47 years…!
- The rare testimony of Valbona Çoku Mirakaj, daughter of Mentor Çoku, former President of the Islamic Community of Western...
Historical Calendar 12 September
1910 - The premiere performance of Symphony no. 8 by Gustav Mahler in Munich with a choir of 852 singers...
‘Post-scriptum for the dictatorship’: “With terror, purges, mass executions, Albania was subjected to the megalomaniacal stupidity of Enver Hoxha and…”/ Reflections of the well-known publicist from France
By Vasil Qesari The first part Memorie.al/ The overthrow of the great totalitarian edifice in Albania would leave behind, not...
“Even though the whole city was under the control of the Germans, who patrolled everywhere in the neighborhood, the Jewish doctor. M.L., came out of the house where he was sheltered and escaped…”/ The rare story in Berat in 1944
By Dilaver Xhelili Memorie.al / The over 2,400-year-old city of Berat is not just a museum city; it is a...
“The girl who never married, sacrificed her life and sold the spoils of the house and her dowry, to find her brother in prison, but in the end he…”/ The tragic story of the family from Berat
By Dilaver Xhelili Memorie.al / Yzedin Haznedari were again sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1951 by...
Historical Calendar 11 September
1922 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia. The Kars Treaty was a peace treaty that defined...
“The former laboratory technician of the hospital, Enis Boletini, said that the body of Mirash Ivanaj was found at the Faculty of Medicine, but when the relatives went there…”/ The tragic story of the former minister who cut Enver Hoxha’s scholarship
By Dr. Uran Butka The third part Memorie.al / Mirash Ivanaj, is an extraordinary personality, among the few chosen people,...
“When they shot his father, Luan Omari was demoralized, he also had two uncles with ‘Balli’, Col. Popa, and he was with the Fascist Party and…”/ Staff documents from 1960, for 4 well-known academics
Dashnor Kaloçi Second part Memorie.al publishes some archival documents extracted from...