ABSTRACT DEL KEBOOK
Enzo Bertolissi told it with a heavy heart. “My brother Ermanno,” said Enzo Bertolissi, “after being a partisan with the Osoppo Brigades, was in the police force and the English took him to exhume bodies from the Istrian foibe in 1946-1947. When we lived in Prosecco at no. 275, near the «Nove Sorelle» restaurant, province of Trieste, we saw family friends disappear in the autumn of 1944, probably eliminated in the foibe because they were Italian.” The Bertolissi family's history is extremely complex, often intricate and convoluted, encompassing the many frontiers of nationalistic impositions, linguistic conflicts, property expropriations, violence, exodus, and colonization by newcomers. Ermanno Bertolissi was born in Prosecco on April 7, 1929, and from 1954 onwards he was in exile in Melbourne, Australia, where he died in 2025, according to his brother Enzo.