# Alessandra Kersevan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alessandra_Kersevan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alessandra_Kersevan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Kersevan > Source revision: 1227933458 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Italian historian (born 1950)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Alessandra Kersevan | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|12|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = [Monfalcone, Gorizia](/source/Monfalcone%2C_Gorizia), Italy | death_date = | death_place = | field = [Contemporary history](/source/Contemporary_history) | work_institutions = [Udine](/source/Udine), Italy | alma_mater = [University of Trieste](/source/University_of_Trieste) | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | prizes = | footnotes = }} '''Alessandra Kersevan''' (born 18 December 1950) is a [historian](/source/historian), author and editor living and working in [Udine](/source/Udine).{{cite web |url=http://www.nutrimenti.net/public/Kersevan_Repubblica.pdf |title=Lager d'Italia - Il coraggio che non abbiamo |author=Paolo Rumiz, Moni Ovadia |publisher=[La Repubblica](/source/La_Repubblica) |date=2008-04-13 |access-date=2012-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713201914/http://nutrimenti.net/public/Kersevan_Repubblica.pdf |archive-date=2014-07-13 |url-status=dead }} She researches [Italian](/source/Italy) modern history, including the [Italian resistance movement](/source/Italian_resistance_movement) and [Italian war crimes](/source/Italian_war_crimes). She is the editor of a group called ''Resistenza storica'' at Kappa Vu edizioni, an Italian publisher. Her research have caused a huge hate campaign against her from the political right environment, both institutional and extra-parliamentary. ==Research== Her research (confirmed by the documents found in British archives by the British historian [Effie Pedaliu](/source/Effie_Pedaliu) and by the Italian historians Costantino Di SanteDi Sante, Costantino (2005) [http://www.ombrecorte.it/more.asp?id=15 Italiani senza onore: I crimini in Jugoslavia e i processi negati (1941-1951)], Ombre Corte, Milano. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20060206175743/http://www.ombrecorte.it/more.asp?id=15 Archived by WebCite®]) and Davide Conti{{cite web|url=http://www.odradek.it/Schedelibri/criminalidiguerra.html |title=Criminali di guerra Italiani |author=Conti, Davide |publisher=Odradek Edizioni|year=2011 |access-date=2012-10-14}}) pointed out that the memory of the existence of the [Italian concentration camps](/source/Italian_concentration_camps) and [Italian war crimes](/source/Italian_war_crimes) in general has been repressed due to the Cold War.[Effie G. H. Pedaliu](/source/Effie_G._H._Pedaliu) (2004) [https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4141408?uid=3739008&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=47698766073667 Britain and the 'Hand-over' of Italian War Criminals to Yugoslavia, 1945-48.] ''Journal of Contemporary History''. Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Collective Memory, pp. 503-529 (JStor.org preview) In the collective memory of the Italian public and media this has led to [historical revisionism](/source/historical_revisionism), in particular concerning post-war [foibe massacres](/source/foibe_massacres).{{cite web|url=http://www.senzasoste.it/anniversari/le-foibe-fra-mito-e-realta-intervista-ad-alessandra-kersevan |title=Article |publisher=Senza Soste|date=2010-02-10 |access-date=2012-03-09}} [Yugoslavia](/source/Federal_People's_Republic_of_Yugoslavia), Greece and [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia) requested [extradition](/source/extradition) of {{formatnum:1200}} Italian war criminals who however never saw anything like the Nuremberg trial, because the British government, with the beginning of [Cold War](/source/Cold_War), saw in [Pietro Badoglio](/source/Pietro_Badoglio) a guarantee of an [anti-communist](/source/anti-communist) post-war Italy.Rory, Carroll (2003) [https://web.archive.org/web/20061005113751/http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/itaimp1.html Italy's bloody secret. (Archived by WebCite®)], ''[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)'', London, UK, June 25 In the 1950s, two Italian film-makers were jailed[https://web.archive.org/web/20061005113751/http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/itaimp1.html Rory, Carroll. Italy's bloody secret. ''The Guardian''. (Archived by WebCite®)], [The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian), London, UK, June 25, 2003 for depicting the [Italian invasion of Greece](/source/Italian_invasion_of_Greece). Kersevan attributes this to historic revisionism.Alessandra Kersevan (2008) ''Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica''. Kappavu, Udine. She compares historic revisionism in Italy to the situation in France where she notes historic mythology is [deconstructed](/source/deconstruction). She gives the French people's understanding of the [Vichy period](/source/Vichy_France) as an example{{clarify|date=March 2016}}. In 2003, Italian media reported that [Silvio Berlusconi](/source/Silvio_Berlusconi) had said, "[Benito Mussolini](/source/Benito_Mussolini) only used to send people on vacation".[http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/10/29/camp_ed3_.php ''Survivors of war camp lament Italy's amnesia''], 2003, ''[International Herald Tribune](/source/International_Herald_Tribune)'' This gave weight and illustrated the thesis made by Kersevan. ==The 2012 diplomatic protest by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia== In February 2012, Italian state TV talk show host [Bruno Vespa](/source/Bruno_Vespa) televised a photograph from July 1942 depicting Italian troops killing civilian hostages in the Slovenian village of [Dane](/source/Dane%2C_Lo%C5%A1ka_dolina){{cite web|url= http://www.rtvslo.si/svet/rai-manipuliral-s-fotografijo-slovenskih-talcev/276815 |title=Italian state TV has been manipulating with the photo of Slovene hostages (Slovene: RAI manipuliral s fotografijo slovenskih talcev|publisher=[RTV Slovenia](/source/RTV_Slovenia) |date=2012-02-14 |access-date=2012-03-09}} and claimed that it showed the opposite. Killings like these, ordered by Italian general [Mario Roatta](/source/Mario_Roatta), were widespread during the Fascist occupation of Slovenia.[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rmis/2004/00000009/00000003/art00005 James H. Burgwyn: "General Roatta's war against the partisans in Yugoslavia: 1942", Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 9, Number 3, September 2004, pp. 314-329(16), link by IngentaConnect] Kersevan, who was a guest on the show, objected, but Vespa did not apologise, and [Maurizio Gasparri](/source/Maurizio_Gasparri), a former Italian Minister of Communications - and once militant of the far right party [Movimento Sociale Italiano](/source/Movimento_Sociale_Italiano) - compared Kersevan to the [KGB](/source/KGB).{{cite news | last1 = Smargiassi | first1 = Michele | date = 23 March 2012 | title = Non dire falsa testimonianza | trans-title = You shall not give false testimony | url = http://smargiassi-michele.blogautore.repubblica.it/2012/03/23/non-dire-falsa-testimonianza/comment-page-1/ | newspaper = [La Repubblica](/source/La_Repubblica) | language = Italian | location = [Rome](/source/Rome) | access-date = 15 February 2017 }} A protest by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the [Republic of Slovenia](/source/Republic_of_Slovenia) followed.{{cite web|url=http://www.rtvslo.si/svet/mzz-obsoja-potvarjanje-zgodovine-italijanske-televizije/276909 |title=Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia protests against the falsification of historical facts|publisher=[RTV Slovenia](/source/RTV_Slovenia) |date=2012-02-15 |access-date=2012-03-09}}[http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-1784a3df-aa07-4bcd-a5ab-1be49cfa2899.html?refresh_ce#p=0 Talk show "Il giorno del ricordo - Porta a Porta"], emitted by the Italian state-owned TV station [RAI](/source/RAI), official website ==Published works== *1995 ''Porzûs. Dialoghi sopra un processo da rifare'', Kappavu, Udine, 215 pp, {{ISBN|9788889808}} about [Porzûs massacre](/source/Porz%C3%BBs_massacre) *2003 ''Un campo di concentramento fascista. Gonars 1942-1943'', Comune di Gonars/Kappavu, Udine, 389 pp, {{ISBN|9788889808}}{{cite web|url=http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Slovenia/Pulizia-etnica-all-italiana |title=Pulizia etnica all\'italiana |author=Alberto Bobbio |publisher=[Famiglia Cristiana](/source/Famiglia_Cristiana) |date=2004-02-08 |access-date=2012-03-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612172749/http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Slovenia/Pulizia-etnica-all-italiana |archive-date=June 12, 2011 }} (Archived by WebCite®) about [Gonars concentration camp](/source/Gonars_concentration_camp) *2008 ''Lager italiani : Pulizia etnica e campi di concentramento Fascisti per civili Jugoslavi 1941-1943'', Nutrimenti edizioni, Rome, 288 pp, {{ISBN|8888389946}} ==Editorial and co-editor contributions== *2008 ''Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica''{{cite web |url=http://www.kappavu.it/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=240 |title=Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica |publisher=Kappa Vu |access-date=2012-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419201236/http://www.kappavu.it/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=240 |archive-date=2012-04-19 |url-status=dead }} ==See also== *[Foibe massacres](/source/Foibe_massacres) *[Italian war crimes](/source/Italian_war_crimes) ==References== {{Reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kersevan, Alessandra}} Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:Italian essayists Category:Italian women essayists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alessandra Kersevan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Kersevan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Kersevan?action=history)). 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