Slovenian Memory of Italian Fascist Concentration Camps

Oto Luthar specializes in the theory and history of historiography, the history of war and violence, the formation of individual and collective cultural memory, and the history of ideas. He was educated in Ljubljana and Berlin and has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna and Yale University in the United States. He is the author and co-author of several books, including The Land Between: A History of Slovenia; The Great War and Memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe; Of Dragons and Evil Spirits: Post-Communist Historiography Between Democratization and New Politics of History and The Media of Memory.Marta Verginella is Professor of 19th-Century History and Theory of History at the University of Ljubljana. She is a leading scholar in border studies, gender history, transnational history, memory studies, and the political uses of history in the North Adriatic region. She directed the ERC project Post-war Transitions in Gendered Perspective. Her works include Il confine degli altri, Donne e confini, and Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848–1918. She has edited volumes on women’s history, nationalism, and labour, and published widely on gendered experiences of borders and historical memory.Urška Strle is a historian of contemporary history engaged at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a member of the ERC-funded OPEN BORDER Project at ZRS Koper. Her research interests include migration history, labour history, biographical studies, gender history, border studies, oral history and memory studies. With Marta Verginella, she also co-edited the Central European University Press volume on Women and Work (2024), and authored the monograph Kanadskim sanjam naproti/Towards Canadian Dreams (2025), which examines Slovene emigration to Canada.

• Chapter 1IntroductionChapter 2The Project, Source Literature, Collection Methodology, Analysis, and Presentation of MaterialChapter 3Occupation, Resistance, and Post-Occupation InternmentChapter 4The Image of Life in Italian Fascist Camps in Sources and Survivors’ TestimoniesChapter 5The Homebound JourneyComing HomeChapter 6Remembering And MemoryChapter 7The Italian Concentration Camps in Literature