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JASENOVAC CONCENTRATION CAMP AND ISTRIA

Here is my photograph of the Partisan cenotaph in Tar, Istria, the village my mother was born in. Her family name was Mikatović. They...

ISTARSKA KUHINJA - Istrian Cuisine

Foreword by Milan Rakovac 1982, translated by Margaret Walker Food! – what and when to eat it and how to prepare it, and in Istria that...

How I Met My Birth Mother, Part 2.

When I was born in Sydney in 1960, my grandfather, like many Australians his age, called Yugoslavs Balts. Even though Yugoslavia was...

AUNTIE DULCIE AND THE MIKATOVIĆ MYSTERY

My husband’s Auntie Dulcie was a dedicated family historian. No one joined dots like she did. Whenever we visited her, she would proudly...

ISTRIAN COOKING IN THE 1920’s – from my birth mother’s memoirs.

Istria may have been prized by Venice, France, Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia, but it was not a wealthy region. Marcus Tanner, in his...

NOT THE YUGOSLAVS I REMEMBER

Hats off to Slovenian author Goran Vojnović! I have just finished reading his best-selling novel Yugoslavia, My Fatherland which he...

Whatever happened to Slovenian Trieste?

By what convoluted route did an Australian come to write an historical novel about Slovenian Trieste? It’s a long story. Asking my birth...

Margaret