Day of Remembrance, the winning schools of the "February 10" national competition awarded at the Quirinale

Valditara: "These institutes represent an entire school system that preserves memory and testimony"

"The Remembrance Day aims to preserve and renew the memory of the tragedy of the thousands of Italians killed and infoibati and of the hundreds of thousands of our compatriots forced to abandon the lands of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia after the Second World War", declared the Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara this morning at the Quirinale, during the ceremony to celebrate the "Day of Remembrance".

“Beyond the specific historical context, those tragedies were possible because ideology disregarded the centrality of the human person, and denied the values ​​of democracy – continued the Minister -. Precisely today that violence has returned to bloody European lands, it is essential to reiterate how respect for every human being and the rule of law are the two decisive bulwarks against all barbarism”.

The Minister congratulated the winning schools of the "February 10" competition "Amate Sponde - Rebuilding existence after the exodus between regret and fortitude", promoted by the Ministry of Education and Merit and by the associations of exiles Istrians, Fiumans and Dalmatians, "whom I sincerely thank", he added.

"These institutes – concluded Minister Valditara – represent the work of an entire school system which takes care of conserving and handing down the precious intangible asset which is expressed in memory and testimony".

The winning schools of the competition

  • For primary school: "Balbino Del Nunzio" School of the Didactic Direction of Spoltore (PE), with the work "Love shores!".
  • For lower secondary school (ex aequo): School "Enea Salmeggia", of the IC "San Paolo D'Argon" of Bergamo, with the work “The key to my dreams”; School "Giovanni Pascoli", of the IC "Zanzotto" of Caneva-Polcenigo (PN), with the work "Villotte 56 - 65: a journey along the streets and the stories of memory".
  • For secondary school: State Institute of Higher Education "Algeri Marino" of Casoli (CH), with the work “Memoria negata”.

Day of Remembrance, the winning schools of the "February 10" national competition awarded at the Quirinale