Historical Calendar 22 August

August 21, 2024

1910 - Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of...

“It was not my wedding! I dressed in a white dress and took a walk around the camp, through the doors of the co-suffering families there, while Fatos…”/ The sad testimony of Klara Merlika

“Similar phenomena like that of the Merlika (Kruja) family from the communist regime, Arshi Pipa, has stigmatized: ‘The stain of a criminal on the forehead of a patriot’, which…”/ Reflections of a researcher from the USA

From Ilo Photo The first part Memorie.al / Big families are named as such, because of prominent people, because of...

“The tyrant who asked the commander to stay longer in the cell, because …” / Memories of the former political prisoner, about the strange stories in Enver Hoxha’s prisons

“The young investigator gave me hard slaps, punches in the stomach and continued to hit me with wood, from the legs, while Ligori covered his face with his hands…”/ The sad testimony of the Albanian-Macedonian

By Nestor Topencharov The sixth part ...

Historical Calendar 21 August

1911 - The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee. After keeping the painting hidden in a...

“Here are the Security people who arrested me in my village, Markat, and sent me to the Saranda Interior Branch, where”. Testimony from the USA of the fugitive in ’85

“I was frozen when Josif, with whom I shared a cell in the Korca investigation, told me something that I could not imagine…! They had brought him from Spaçi, for…”!/ The rare testimony of the Albanian-Macedonians

By Nestor Topencharov The fifth part ...

Historical Calendar 20 August

August 19, 2024

1915 - Paul Elrich dies at the age of 61. Elrich, was a German physician and scientist decorated with the...

“Dom Lekë Sirdani and Dom Pjetër Çunin, after they were cruelly tortured in the section of Koplik, they threw them alive into a well of black water and…”/ Macabre crime on July 31, 1948

“Following the investigation, in addition to the general questions that Reshat asked me, regarding Yugoslavia and others, the request was added, where I had hidden the gold…”/ Testimony of the Albanian-Macedonian

By Nestor Topencharov The fourth part ...

“The terrorist streak is strong in Dushan, who killed more than Mehmet, and I was a mirror of ‘Ali, i.e., when he said, then we decided to kill him, we didn’t weigh anything…”/ Enver Hoxha’s letter, in ’44

From Uran Butka The second part Memorie.al / Mustafa Gjinishi were an outstanding and special personality of the Albanian progressive...

Historical Calendar 19 August

1936 - A major purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first Moscow process takes place. The Moscow trials...

“People reported to us that Gjinishi was meeting with Lumo Skëndo, Abaz Kupin Sheh Karbunara, and other people, he had many conversations with Ag Petrela and his house…”/ Enver Hoxha’s letter