Caltanissetta: a “remembrance bench” dedicated to the victim of the foibe Norma Cossetto inaugurated
A symbol that commemorates the sacrifice of the young Istrian woman on the anniversary of her death.
Caltanissetta: a “remembrance bench” dedicated to the foibe victim Norma Cossetto inaugurated.
Foibe victim Norma Cossetto has her own “bench of remembrance” at Villa Monica.
A symbol that commemorates the sacrifice of the young Istrian woman on the anniversary of her death.
The memory of Norma Cossetto is increasingly present in the city of Caltanissetta thanks to the commitment of the "February 10th Committee". With the initiative “A Rose for Norma”, sponsored by the Municipality of Caltanissetta and now in its sixth edition, the 10th February Committee returned to Villa Monica for the inauguration of the so-called “Bench of Remembrance”.
The structure, which will support the “Olive tree martyrs of the foibe”, aims to keep alive the memory of a woman who in 2005 was awarded the Gold Medal for Civil Merit by the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi with the following motivation: "A young Istrian student, captured and imprisoned by Slavic partisans, was tortured and raped for a long time by her jailers and then barbarically thrown into a sinkhole. A shining testimony of courage and patriotic love".
Norma Cossetto, born in 1920, was an Italian student, an Istrian from a village in the municipality of Visignano, kidnapped, tortured, raped and thrown while still alive into a sinkhole in Villa Surani by Tito's communist partisans on the night between 4 and 5 October 1943.
With the “Benches of Remembrance” The 10th February Committee aims to install in every Italian city a bench painted with the colors of the national flag. In the green, white and red always stands out a plaque with the dedication to a Martyr of the foibe, to Norma Cossetto, or to an Istrian, Julian, Fiume, Dalmatian Exile, who has particularly distinguished himself in the world of Work and Culture.
“Remembering the sacrifice of Norma Cossetto, on the very day she was killed, is a duty – declares Giuseppe Fiocco, local manager of the February 10th Committee – We laid a bunch of flowers and told the participants about the life and heroic end of this shining testimony of courage and patriotic love”:
We believe, as a committee, that this sad story is still talked about too little in history books.
The bench, therefore, must be an encouragement and an example for all the children and citizens who will frequent the villa. I thank the administration.
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