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the Drenov Old School

Old School on Lower Drenova

O the Drenova Old School, as we all still call it, a lot of texts can be found. One of these is From the past of our old school in Drenova authors Božidar Črnjar, as signed, the teacher and headmaster of the Drenova Regional School. The school, as many Drenovci know, was built with the initiative and encouragement of the first Drenov parish priest Ivana Cvetka He was also the first headmaster of the school. It was completed in 1852. At first, the school was four years old, and its name was Pučka učiona in Drenova. The first teacher was Franjo Kukuljan And in the first year of school, he taught 42 first-graders. Drenova, like Rijeka, was part of the Banovina of Croatia from 1848 to 1868. The school taught and wrote in Croatian.

1868 through Croatian-Hungarian Settlement to which it was subsequently fraudulently glued Rijeka cloth, Rijeka and its surroundings, including Drenova, came under direct Hungarian rule.

As it is written by Črnjar:

After the Croatian-Hungarian settlement, the Rijeka Provision was created here, by which Rijeka was separated from Croatia and subject to Hungary. The period of Croatian birth begins in our region and in the city of Rijeka (according to Austrian statistics there were 11,582 Croats and 691 Italians).

Already in 1872 the school was given the Italian name ‘Civica scuola popolare di 3 classi’. By the end of the 19th century, the Croatian language was gradually suppressed, and in 1900 it was abolished as a teaching language, and classes were taught in Italian. In 1924 By the Treaty of Rome, our city of Rijeka came under the rule of the Italians, and an unnatural border divided Drenova into Lower Drenova (under Italy) and Upper Drenova (under Yugoslavia). The school remained on the Italian side and the people of Drenovci had to send their children to an Italian school.
Božidar ČRNJAR

The school building was added in 1913 when it received its eastern part.

Even then, after the upgrade, there were attempts to return the Croatian language to the school on Drenova, which is evident from the documents we managed to find in the State Archives of Rijeka. That's what it was in 1913. The New Paper On 29 August 1913 he published an extensive article on the issue.

In 1918, the prefect of the village and the then Drenov parish priest spoke. Mate Polić the local authorities with a request for the introduction of a Croatian school on Drenovo.

The letters ask for help with the establishment of classrooms with classes in Croatian. Polic writes that it was the parents themselves who asked for it. It is proposed that children be given books free of charge. There were also problems with the apartments of teachers who did not have heating.

It was also necessary to obtain records for the school.

Upper Drenova School

Božo Črnjar further states in his article:

At the beginning of 1925, the Croatian school started working in a private building, the birthplace of Prof. Fran Franković on Gornja Drenova (in Tonići). The first teacher was retired teacher Ante Dukić from Kastav, and the school year 1925/26 teacher Žeželić from Čavli. At the beginning of 1926/27, a young teacher Dragica Lenac from Zamet came and led all classes.
God the Ruler

The birth house of Prof. Franković, where the elementary school Gornja Drenova has been located since 1925

According to some sources, the school started operating in 1924. What is indisputable is that until his death, in July 1924, Professor Franković himself resided in it.

Črnjar continues:

In 1930, a new school building was built and opened in the hamlet of Tunić (Gornja Drenova), and Ivan Ribarić was installed as a teacher, who was expelled from Istria by the Italians. The new school building (one-storey building) had on the ground floor two apartments for teachers and a hall for physical education, and on the first floor two spacious classrooms and a classroom. Teaching was performed by Ivan Ribarić, who was the manager until his internship in Italy in 1942, and Dragica Lenac.

In October 1943, the Germans burned down the school building on Tunic to the ground.
God the Ruler

It can be assumed that the documentation of this school, which operated for 17 years, of which 12 years in the building on Tunić, also disappeared in the burning. Today, on the site where the school building once stood, there is a playground. The name of the street is The road to the playground.

The place where the school used to stand, today the playground (Google Maps)

In this, the only photograph of the school building on Tunić that we have, the school itself is visible, and to the left in the distance are the buildings on Lokva – the former Social Home and to the right of the home several residential houses.

In the State Archives in Rijeka there is a collection of personal documents of director Ivan Ribarić. Among the few photos, we found two related to the school. The first is school principal Ivan Ribarić with students, and the second is Ivan Ribarić with teacher Dragica Lenac and several children. Both pictures were taken in front of the school. These are also the only photographs that were taken in the school or in front of the school on Gornja Drenova, and have been preserved to this day. If one of our fellow citizens owns documents or photos from the school on Tunić, it is still possible that we will be able to add to the history of this school unpublished and publicly unknown documentation.

Headmaster Ivan Ribarić with students in front of the school on Tunić

The director Ivan Ribarić was interned by Italians in 1942. He remained in the boarding school until 1944. When he came back, there was no school where he was once the headmaster. After his liberation in 1945, Ribarić was a teacher in Rukavac. In his archives there is a request for transfer from Rukavac because, due to impaired health, he often needs medical help that he cannot get in Rukavac.

Ivan Ribarić and teacher Dragica Lenac with students in front of school on Tunić, May 9, 1937

Collecting testimonies of life on Drenova, through the project Nonić's Thiramol, members the Association Without Borders they made a video recording in which Petar Rino Štefan He told an anecdote from his school days. Rino went to school in Gornja Drenova. In this anecdote, in addition to little Perica, the main role was played by the teacher Dragica Lenac. The story is available (from 7:37) at the following link:

We wrote about this in the second edition. the Drenov Chronicles from which we bring an excerpt from the article Vesna Lukanović o Nonić's Thiramol:

Petar Rino Štefan ki today lives in Gornja Drenova, led by storije ke are tied to the border, even while it was a brick

Bival san down, on Dolnja Drenova, and saki san dan shawl va škola semo na Gornja Drenova. That j’ was why we were Croats, we did not name Italian citizenship, and Dolnja Drenova was Italian. Mogal san started your Italian school downstairs, but san hodeval your school as it was in Gornja Drenova, on the territory of Yugoslavia. I dream scarf up your school. Saki day over the border walking in a bundle. Scarf dream so from first to fifth grade. And in winter and in flight, walking from below. When the dream scarf your fifth grade then capitulated Italy and there was no school already.

My teacher was from Sušak. She also walked your school across two borders. Down on the bridge, your city crossed one border and another this one onto the Drenove. Your school was over the promenade, and on Saturday evening she would go home to Sušak. Over the promenade, while she was there, she was feeding there. In Dolnja Drenova she would buy rice, al pasta, but she already used it. She'd pay for the glass she bought, and the flaws would say that it was brought to her by your school borsheath. It used to be a kilo of rice, a kilo of pasta, a kilo of pound, as it used to be. I bin to zel va butege, put your school borsha and scarf across the border z tan. I've known myself financiers and border guards and you dream of grazing every day across the border. Hello dream them z: ‘Good morning!’, ‘Good day!’ and the Italians from ‘Buongiorno!’ The wintertime would often call me for tea. It was j' winter, and there was a lot of blowing there. Once a dream came to him for tea and a frontiersman j' asked me:

Come on, Perice, let me see a little bit of how you learn in school. – I told her to look at my school books. Malo san stal,prrl pupil borša, and žnje špili – ris! And what do you learn with that rice? – joke j’. Rekal san da j’teacher asked me to bring it to her. They wanted my rice! The scarf dream gives, your school. When the dream came, the intention was to divert the pupil of the teacher to your kitchen, I dream prolonged your class. She j’ asked me to get bored outside and asked if the dream would turn up the rice. Spoken - I have Nisan leh on the border wanting rice.

The border guards screamed it at her. I guess they laughed a little around it and screamed rice at her. The border guards were up there in one of the houses near us (the Lubanj ascent).
VESNA LUKANOVIĆ

Rino Štefan is no longer among us today, but we have recorded a small part of his memories from his childhood, memories of Drenova divided by the border and primary school from Upper Drenova. Today, this school exists only in rare records and a few photographs.

Researched and prepared for publication by Davorka Medved and Christian Grailach

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Ivo Oreskovic

Post author By Christian Grailach
Post date 25/03/2023

But let's start over.

Ivan Oreskovic, Ivo, as we all called him, was born in 1954 in Čovići near Otočac in Lika, and died in 2020 in Drenova, where he was buried in the Old cemetery of Drenova. In 1980, with his wife Zdenko, he moved to Drenovo, where he bought land for the construction of a house on Mugarić, and lived with his family on Orešje and in Brdina Street until the construction. Having built the ground floor of the house with the help of several friends, the Orešković family has also moved since 1990; wife Zdenka, daughter Sanja, son Tomislav and Ivo live at Mugarićka 6.

He worked in the factory "Rikard Benčić" as a turner, and by the way studied extraordinarily at the Faculty of Education in Rijeka and in 1983 acquired the title of professor of industrial pedagogy.

Founding of DVD Drenova

In 1985, an initial committee of 11 members, including Ivo, started the initiative and on 16 November of the same year, at the founding assembly held in the Cultural Centre in Lokva, they founded the Drenova Volunteer Fire Brigade - DVD Drenova, of which Ivo was later president.

Also, with two other like-minded people, he founded the Drenova Society of Voluntary Blood Donors and became a donor himself.

When the idea of founding a choir on Drenova was born, as the president of the time, he stated that the Statute of DVD Drenova enabled the functioning of cultural sections, and so his great merit began with the work of the Mixed Choir DVD Drenova, which at that time also had exercises in the DVD space. The newly founded choir also had its first official performance at the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of DVD on November 19, 1985, held at the Fran Franković Elementary School.

Founding of DVD Drenova 20 years — Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of DVD Drenova 19. 11/2005 Ivo at the table, right

Founder of the music quintet “Rotirka band“ who, with his music, entertained many gatherings of Drenova firefighters, played often for his “goose”, and I will never forget when, for the celebration of St. George’s Day, on 21 April 2012, together with the Drenova singing choir, they performed in front of a crowded auditorium in the Dom na Lokva.

Cheerful rotors — "Vesele rotirke" 21.4.2012. in Dom na Lokva. Ivo the first right

Tambours that our museum has in its display, apparently dating back to the age after 1. of the World War. We know that with the founding of the Drenova Pučka Reading Room in 1908, the Drenovčan tamburitza choir was founded, whose members played on their own instruments. Dušan Štefan He saved the tambourines and handed them over after a few years. Ivo Oreskovic who was then the president of the local community of Drenova. Ivo kept them for years in the boiler room of the Local Committee, to give them to our museum immediately after its founding.

Short biography

Pok. Ivan Oreskovic was employed in the City of Rijeka from January 1994 until the end of 2019 when he retired. He worked in the Department of City Self-Government and Administration, the Department of the City Administration for the Utilities System and in the Department of the City Administration for Asset Management in the following jobs:

Referent for local self-government from 1.1.1994. to 31.3.1994.
City Revenue Inspector from 1.4.1994 to 31.7.1996
Leading associate for the control of the use of living space from 1.8.1996. to 30.11.1997.
Independent associate main municipal guard from 1.12.1997. to 3.2.2019.
Senior expert associate 1 – scout since 4.2.2019 31/12/2019
Secretary of the Local Communities of the Municipality of Rijeka
President of the Trade Union from 2015 until his retirement in 2019.

At the end of the conversation with Zdenko and Sanja, I was deeply touched by his daughter's statement:

When I think of my late father, the first thing I feel is pride and gratitude. Then comes love and of course sadness, which the imminent death took prematurely.

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Street Kućina

Many streets on Drenova are named after toponyms - Frkaševo, Škudarevo, Brca and the like, in addition to the names of the deserving Drenovci. However, one address stands out - Kućina (some write Kučina incorrectly), and it was named after an old house that was probably larger than the others during that time, and after Chakavian as a large house got the name Kućina. The remains of the house can still be seen opposite the entrance to the parking lot of the Central Cemetery, and the street is below the Sportsbook and the market "Barby".

Our excellent painter and connoisseur of the Drenov past, Alberto Mihich, once worked in the factory ‘Rikard Benčić’. Here he founded and ran an art section that often organized exhibitions. In 1976, one of these exhibitions featured his painting of the House as he remembered it. The original of the painting is in color on the cover (it is computer-coloured), oil on canvas, and the photo is black/white.

Black and white photo of Bertić's painting

Street Kućina - today — Today's appearance of the house from the picture

The house was also mentioned by Ivo Grohovac in the article "How she became a Škurinja" written in 1913.

It is interesting that at the same time there was a house that the people of Drenovci called House, probably because it was small compared to the others. The late Aldo Štefan who lived there was called Aldo z kucica. The house still exists today, it is located next to a cafe in the parking lot of the Central Cemetery. It has recently been completely renovated and here it is in the picture.

Kućina street - cottage — The house, today

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Wine nut in Grohovo

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In the DCD Facebook group of our Drenova Social Center, Damir Medved published comparative pictures of Grohov once and today where it is nice to see how there used to be vineyards and cultivated areas around Grohovo that are now neglected and overgrown with forest.

In the above paintings, the difference between the era of dam construction (1964-1966) and today's era can be beautifully seen.

I've known the goddess for a long time. Josip Šikić, a Grohov resident who confirmed to me in a conversation that Grohovo used to live in a really different way and that Grohovo was surrounded by vineyards and gardens. We also know about the mills and columns that have also disappeared.
Mr. Šikić tells me how vineyards existed on both sides of today's Lake Valići and how they flourished beautifully thanks to loam, which is a keeper of moisture that corresponds to the vine. These were not large vineyards, but smaller, drywalled areas where mostly white wine with some red wine was grown. Traces of these drywalls can still be found today. There, of course, vegetables were also grown for daily nutrition, and whoever had more wore it was sold on a plot in Rijeka.

It's Mr. Doyle's story. Sikic said that there were not as many vineyards as there were around Grohovo, around Pasac, in Šćitari on the slopes of Katarina in those more ancient times, neither on Grobnišćina nor around Kastav. The quantities of wine produced by the owners of the vineyards were not much more significant. Mostly for home use, and something was known to be sold. Since at that time there was not yet any technology and preparations that could maintain the quality of the wine, when the barrel was opened, it took relatively quickly that wine and consumed it so that it would not spoil. For this purpose, ‘Matice’ was organised.
In Zlatan Nadvornik’s book ‘Croatian wines, wine customs, wine drinks and wine ceremonies’, the author writes:

Mr. Sikic told me that in Grohovo it was a little different. Namely, the order was agreed between the winegrowers. And just as Nadvornik says, at the agreed time the villagers gathered at a certain landlord, the barrel would open, drink, cheer, and sell something. These were great events during those times, and they could take up to two days at a landlord's house. Those who were a little thirsty, who stayed overnight, would sleep in the hayloft, but the boss would take away "fajerc and fuminants" from everyone beforehand (as Mr Šikić tells me) so that there would be no fire if they wanted to light a cigarette in the way they were "happy". Basically – the barrel would be emptied!

Josip's prano did not maintain nuts because it produced high-quality wine that would be sold quickly.
An interesting detail was pointed out by Mr. It's a shikic. Namely, Grohovčani was the first to start preparing quality wine in (as he says) boutiques. In fact, it was something similar to today's champagne, and he still has a device somewhere to plug those boutiques.
A painting also provided to me by Mr. Gardner. Šikić shows the nut from 1958 (judging by the inscription on the back).

I don't know which boss.

In addition to selling wine and vegetables, many Grohovci were butchers, and as mentioned above Grohovo was also known for its mills and columns on a dug-out canal – the Rječina branch.
With the development of industry and the possibility of profit in Rijeka, vineyards were neglected and winemaking gradually disappeared.

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If you don't get stuck...

Recall the famous exhibition If you don't get stuck... 2004 by Albert Mihich and Christian Graiach

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THE WORLD'S VILLAGE

Post author By Christian Grailach
Post date 24/04/2022

The de Terzy family (this is how they wrote with Y, although the name de Terzi is often met in the history of Rijeka) used to live on the Drena River and was, in all likelihood, seen and well-to-do. One part of Drenova is still named after them Terčevo selo and stretched once from the present place with a characteristic volt on the Drenova road, immediately after the old parsonage all the way to Škudarovo, occupying the former fields on which there were no houses at that time.

In “The Book of Weddings 1838. – 1926’, led by the village prefects of Drenova, and a copy of which has the Regional Museum in its digital holdings, we find the fact that they married on 17.8.1849. Josephus de Terzy i Carolina Medanich, and 29.10.1892. their son Franciscus de Terzy and Francisco Vidrih.

**Copies of pages from the "Wedding Book 1838-1926" with the names of members of the de Terzy family**

In the book The history of the river, the book of the second, author Giovanni Kobler mentions the name de Terzy in the part where he describes the churches of Rijeka:

29. Parish Church of Sv. Mary of the Mount of Carmel.
Archdeacon de Peri, who died in 1810, in a will from 1807, left the estate on the Drena, with the same obligations, to his great-grandson Francesco de Terzy. While arranging income for cult maintenance, patron Francesco de Terzy, then the city chancellor, vinculated the sum of 500 forints in favor of this chapel.

The online Forum Croinfo051 writes, among other things:

List of all who were in power in the city at some time:
….
1694, 8. VII. 1715 Ottavio Barone de Terzy, Captain
1813? 1813, 23. XI Vicenco de Terzy, (temporary Intendant, podestata)

In the State Archives of Rijeka, I found two documents mentioning the Drenov family de Terzy. The first one from 1909 (pictured below) says:

The sketch shows the terrain on Drenova (Red) which is municipal property and is registered by mistake in the name of de Terzy Antonio, Vincenzo, Giuseppe, Luigia, Carolina, Teresa.

The sketch shows the church, and the terrain is approximately in the area of today's monastery.

Another document from 1910 shows a sketch of the exchange of land ownership between the municipality and the Francesco de Terzy 's for the purpose of extending the road (today's Drenovski put). They are well marked: church, then parish apartment, house Lina Kucicha (today the ‘Lepe Brena’ building), the skanj (barn) next to yoga (see below) and only Terčevo selo in the middle of the picture.

The above-mentioned volt over the entrance door to the center of the village is made up of a block of houses that today looks like the following pictures. The first photo is a view of the entrance to the village with a stone arch - volt, and the last one is a relief on the volt with the name of the village carved in it. Terce's village, two oak leaves (perhaps a family sign) and the inexplicable initials FV (perhaps a stone cutter). The ground floor of the building used to be Oštarija pul Sablić The entrance was today's middle window in the middle picture. The right image shows the interior of the village.

Above the house is another volt with an embossed inscription on which the initial is difficult to read. The letter T is discerned, to the right, probably from Terzy, and to the left it could be read as J, which would correspond to the name Josephus, mentioned in the Wedding Book, as well as the year 1909.

Across from the tavern, below the road was bocce yoga, and behind yoga, towards the church, there was a treasure bar. On the back of the painting was written by Ante Zupčić:

Bottle yog on Terčeven village in 1965. Z. Ljubo hitil bottle after him Pepić Mihić Josip. Romano Mihić Milan Saftić Arduino zdigal is a bocce and Renato z Lokve, for the Master's horses and mullets and nurseries.

By talking Ante Zupčić at the time of taking this photo the owner of the skateboard was Milan Saftić and kept goats and poultry in it.

What this part of Drenova looked like at the beginning of the 1940s is shown in a sketch that he drew at my request by memory (and believe me it has a very good memory) Alberto Mihich-Bertić.

A few words for orientation: on the right is the old parish apartment where our good Gabriel lived, in the middle is today's building and the entrance to Terčevo village, across from yoga and skanj. You notice that there were more entry ports with volts that were demolished over time.

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MUSEUM NIGHT 2022 at Drenova Social Centre - Drenove Heritage Museum

Post author By Damir Medved
Post date 24/01/2022

This year's Museum Night will be held in Friday 28 January 2022 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. the main theme is Between Real and Digital.

Association Without Borders, which runs the Regional Museum of Drenova, and which operates within the Drenova Social Center, will present a large exhibition on the theme “The famous people of Drenovci – why they are so important to us for the history of our region”.

The exhibition will be hybrid – physically in a fully digital space on the museum’s multimedia platform and online FB Video Stream.

At 7:00 p.m. you will be able to watch the conversation that Damir Medved led with Chistian Grailach i Albert Mihich about our Drenovci, and why we think that they have indebted us and that they are worth remembering.

In preparation for this exhibition, additional research was carried out, so now we are able to present and some previously unpublished documents derived from Archives of Arolsen (International Archive for the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes) and they concern the fate of our Drenovci.

In this exhibition we will remember:

Welcome back!

Note: sightseeing of the Drenova Regional Museum and the exhibition will take place respecting epidemiological measures and Covid-19 certificates are required, and all adults should wear masks indoors.

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Orlando Kučić

At the end of Ivana Žorža Street towards Škurinje, the Orlando Kučića Street begins on the left and connects to the Kućički put.

Who Orlando Kučić was told to me by his now-deceased sister, Mrs. It's Nives Kucic. We met at the Drenova Retirement Club and I must say that with considerable suspicion she agreed to answer my questions about her brother because, as she said, these are things and times that are little talked about today.

But she opened her soul a little bit and said:

Orlando was a year younger than her, born on November 19, 1929. They lived on Boka, and went to school at the Drenova Old School. At the beginning of 1944, Orlando, along with several Drenov boys, one might say, went, as Nives says, into the woods. By all accounts, Ivan Žorž was in the same group. Orlando was a courier and carried information between bases that Nives said had numbers.
One night he helped Orlando carry the wounded. Tired, fell asleep on a wet moss. Soon, unfortunately, he fell ill – he got an inflammation of the bruise, a plaurita as Nives says. My mother cooked hot soup every day, but it didn't help. At the hospital, the Germans asked him to be delivered to them on three occasions with the intention of transporting him to Dachau, but the doctor did not allow him, noting that he was too weak to be transported and that his health condition was critical anyway. He died in the hospital as a boy, at the age of 15. He was buried in the old cemetery of Drenova.
Nives Kučić

And this is how Spartac Črnjarić was told by his mother Agricola, born on Drenova in 1924, so he sent me an e-mail:

Mat said to me:
One Sunday, young men from about 16 flights from Dolnja Drenova go to Lokva -Tito Francetić, Ferruccio Superina, Orlando Kučić and Ivan Žorž. On Lokve they wanted partisans for Učka.
Orlando was ill and died. My mat was at the funeral.
Spartaco Črnjarić

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Ivan Žorž

Ivana Žorža Street starts from the stairs opposite the church on Donja Drenova and descends all the way to Ivo Lola Ribara Street and is one of the longest Drenovska streets.

Ivan Žorž with his parents — With parents, Stanislava-Slava and Josip-Pepin Žorž

Ivan Žorž, Nini as he is remembered today by members of the Drenov family Žorž, was born on July 10, 1926 on Drenova. How and when he got involved in the defense of his homeland and his Drenova, unfortunately we do not know, and neither do his own, still alive Žorževi. On the web address Archives of Arolsen On September 25, 1944, he was brought to Dachau concentration camp and held under prisoner number 111417. Less than a month after his arrival in Dachau, he was relocated on 22 October to the Neuengamme Camp from Hamburg, from where he never returned.

I will repeat here what I wrote in the article about Orlando Kučić:

Spartaco Črnjarić, my colleague and friend, sent me an e-mail that his mother, Drenovčanka Agricola Črnjarić, told him:

Mat said to me: On Sunday, young men from approx. 16 flights from Dolnja Drenova go to Lokva -Tito Francetić, Ferruccio Superina, Orlando Kučić and Ivan Žorž. On Lokve they wanted partisans for Učka. Mat says Žoržu doesn't even have a real name Ivan (thinking probably Nina, as they called him). His parents were on the border, his father was a stonemason, he would have known more than them to lead Milivoj Brozina who is his and nan's seed .
Spartaco Črnjarić

Interestingly, the Germans kept very detailed documentation of the inmates. For example, for Ivan, it is stated in one document that he had 850 Italian lira upon his arrival. However, no document mentions the cause or method of death, both for Ivan and for all the inmates.

Transport Liste Dachau – Neuengamme (John 1474)

Archives of Arolsen – The International Centre for Nazi Persecution, formerly the International Search Service (ITS), is an internationally run centre for documentation, information and research on Nazi persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and its occupied regions. The archive contains about 30 million documents from concentration camps, details of forced labor and files on exiled persons. The ITS preserves the original documents and sheds light on the fate of those persecuted by the Nazis. The archives have been available to researchers since 2007. May 2019 The Centre uploaded around 13 million documents and made them available to the public online. The archives are currently digitized and transcribed via the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform. As of July 2020, around 27% The archive has been copied.

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Bruno Francetić

The street that goes uphill from the cross in Benaši towards Tonići and Kablari brings me Bruno Francetić.

On the Internet address of the City of Rijeka you will find information on the origin of street names, so for Bruno Francetić says:

Bruno Francetić (Rijeka, 1921) – Kamenjak, 1942) – a Croatian anti-fafist and prominent fighter for workers’ rights. He was a member of the Drenova Skojevska Group.

The Society Without Borders The text of mrs. Elda Bariša Bruno was a barba, my mother's brother. Mrs. Elda remembers Bruno's departure to the Partisans and writes:

And my barba is a scarf for your partisans. It was a dream that day to go up to none and hear the remorse of the bastard and the bastard. When the body's dream starts to come in, the barba is the oprl of the door and on the back I told the nonotu “I will ren and I will never come out again”. In 1942 the first fighter died, Bruno Francetić is called our street after the chem.

A few details of his death can be found in the text published by the ‘Lokalpatrioti Rijeka’ group, which says about themselves:

“Lokalpatrioti Rijeka” is a place that gathers lovers of the city of Rijeka and the Primorje-Gorski Kotar region! It deals with the preservation of Rijeka's identity and multiculturalism as its main value. An independent site primarily oriented to the work of the forum that follows all major events in the city of Rijeka and our region and reveals our history.

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On July 5, 1942, Commander 2 was killed. Comrade Nikola Car - Crni Miko of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar Partisan Detachment. On that day, an ambush was set up on Louisiana between Kamenjak and Grobnik in the strength of 140 partisans.... In this action, a comrade was killed next to the commandant of the squadron. Bruno Francetić.

Mrs. Florrick. Elda said the Italians buried all those killed in the action in a common grave in Kozala Cemetery.

Bruno was the first Italian partisan to die and probably the first Italian partisan to die.

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