Gorica, establishment OF

In December 1941, the founding members gathered at a location still not yet determined in the city. There are no documents about this event, as the strictest rules for work in the illegal were in force at that time.

There are also no later records, as the rules of conspiracy and silence still applied even after the war.

Political circumstances did not allow the revelation of names and wartime activities, since the Slovene national community in Italy had been discriminated against and oppressed for many years. Over the years, some of the participants of the first meeting from this area emigrated, and most of them had already died. Only memories remained.

After 75 years, a group of seventy aware Slovenes from Gorica and surrounding areas, usually younger than 50 years old, organized on the initiative and under the mentorship of professor Aldo Rupel, and under the name Network OF, decided to place a plaque in memory of this important event. They collected the necessary funds and placed the plaque on the building in Podgora, where the local organization of Italian and Slovene partisans (ANPI-VZPI) is based. For this occasion, professor Rupel published a book titled The Liberation Front in Gorica. The ceremony of the plaque's unveiling on 11 December 2016 was attended by about 60 people, among them a delegation from the Regional Association of Fighters for the Values of the Nova Gorica People's Liberation Front, which awarded the Network OF a commemorative certificate in recognition of their efforts.

Source: https://zb-ng.si/

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