A Museum of Remembrance will be established in Rome, dedicated to the tragic events of the eastern border. Specifically, it will commemorate the massacres of Italians by Tito's Yugoslav communist partisans and the post-war exodus of Italians who fled Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia en masse to escape the Belgrade regime. A special law has allocated eight million euros for the museum's creation and an annual budget of 50,000 euros for its management. The management will be overseen by a foundation that includes the Ministry of Culture, the Lazio Region—which will provide a building for the museum—and other public and private entities.
The museum complements the institution of the Day of Remembrance, celebrated every February 10th to honor the victims of the Foibe massacres (natural karst caves where the bodies of those killed were often thrown) and the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Italians who left their homes. February 10th is the date the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty was signed, which assigned much of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. This decision penalized Italy and led to the mass flight of Italians from the territories annexed to Yugoslavia.
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