“The rift between Noli and Konica on the one hand, and Kostë Çekrezi on the other, is among the most tragic disputes in

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By AGRON ALIBALI Part Two – According to American archival data – Memorie.al / During the last two years...

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1898 - US President William McKinley signs a joint resolution in Congress declaring war on Spain, beginning the Spanish-American War....

“On each table, a large wooden bowl of porridge, which had to be eaten together, with the spoon that each person had brought with them, and at the end, they brought yogurt…”/ Report by the German anthropologist, in 1937

- The rare photographs of 1937 by the German anthropologist Reimer Schulz, featuring the men’s gjamë (lament) at the funeral...

Rare testimonies: “How I met some of the Catholic clergy in the prisons of Enver Hoxha, who…” / Unknown memories of the intellectual who suffered 21 years in the communist ‘hell’

“From the Fishta Chamber-Museum, Dul Rrjodhi of the Security Service, he would take pens and other knick-knacks as if they were nothing, and he would carry them in his breast pocket, with pride…”! / Memories of the famous friar

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By Father Zef Pllumi Part One - Father Zef Pllumi: “Duli used to tell me: I was a steelyard man,...

“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 National Guard, with whom…”/ Testimony of the ex-prisoner about the Spachi Revolt

“Professor Stavrou, of the Greek minority who fled in 1983, said that Hoxha’s regime held “a total of 40,000 political prisoners” – of which 2,500…”/ Unknown article by an American journalist, in ’85

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Part Two - Article from "The Times", 1985, by journalist David Binder, its correspondent in the Balkans - Memorie.al /...

“In democratic France, the guillotine awaits communist criminals; in the USA, the electric chair-while here, they roam free…”

“The court declares all defendants guilty of espionage, since through these agents foreign missions have learned…”/ Trial against Frida Sadedini and 16 other defendants in ’49

By FRITZ RADOVANI Memorie.al / From the year 1949, Mrs. Frida Sadedini continued to be imprisoned…! Interned…! Imprisoned again, tortured...

“When the envoys from Tirana told Noli: ‘Very well; we can bury Konica in Albania, but first we must bring him before the people’s court,’ an inflamed Noli…” / Article from “Dielli” newspaper, October 20, 1965

“The informant, who is thought to be Albanian, presents Faik Konica as ‘unstable in political views’, and Fan Nolin as a ‘communist’ because…”/ Secret FBI reports revealed

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“They assigned me Shyqëri Çoku as an investigator, who ordered the police officers to untie my hands, and as a man from Shkodër, I told him: ‘Nadja e mirë’ (Good morning/good day), but he…” / The memoirs of the former Bishop of Shkodër, Dom Zef Simoni

“Engineer Mërgim Korça, while fleeing permanently to the USA, stopped in Italy and connected with the great journalist Indro Montaneli, as his father, in Albania…”/ Reflections of Visar Zhiti from the USA

By VISAR ZHITI Part Two When we read Mërgim Korça…! Memorie.al / This is the third book of writings...

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1943 - During World War II in Poland, the Ghetto Uprising of Warsaw begins, as German troops enter the ghetto...

“In Himara, the Greek flag waves in front of a restaurant, where a band with bouzouki, clarinet and tambourine plays Greek music, guests dance, eat ‘souvaque’, drink ouzo…”/ The journey of a German tourist, before and after the ’90s

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