A migration that approximately 350 thousand Italians had to suffer, since the end of the Second World War and in subsequent years. And therefore for Remembrance Day, which is celebrated throughout Italy 10 February and established only in 2004, Norma Cossetto's comic will be distributed in all middle schools in the Veneto, published by Ferrogallico by Emanuele Merlino and Beniamino Delvecchio. Two thousand five hundred copies are in distribution. In addition to this you will also be given an information leaflet, edited by the historian Guido Rumici, to frame the historical events of the eastern border. The comic tells the story of Norma, university student enrolled at the University of Padua, who was informed, raped, raped and killed by Tito's partisans in 1943. It was the 5 October.
“Norma Cossetto – says the regional councilor for Education, Elena Donazzan – is the symbol of a tragedy belatedly recognized by the Italian Republic and which we have the duty to make known to the young students of Veneto. Not because a law requires it, but why that page of history, guiltily silent, it is still absent from textbooks and school curricula. The Veneto Region, than by history, culture and tradition is strongly linked to the lands of Istria and Dalmatia, and whose University of Padua, on the proposal of the then Rector Concetto Marchesi he granted an honorary degree post-mortem to Norma, has the task, more than others, to make known the horrible tragedy of the ethnic cleansing carried out by Tito's Partisans against those populations, guilty only of being Italian".
“Thanks to the initiative of the Veneto Region and the sensitivity of school managers and teachers in Veneto – says Alessandro Cuk, national vice-president of the Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia association – it will be possible to introduce eighth graders to a painful and controversial page, on which a sort of collective amnesia has descended for decades. We are working to update the historical brochure which, with in-depth information and bibliographical information, encourage us to learn more about the reasons for the exodus and its developments, as well as the profound bond that unites the populations of the two shores of the Adriatic and who have always had their cultural reference in Venice".