Family gallery
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Ist prize in skiing competition dated year XII of Fascist era (1934)
Vlado's gold-buying friend Gianni, left, Montana, Oct 3, 1936.
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Italian Citizenship granted to Vlado on Feb. 10, 1938, Year XVI of Fascist Era.
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Vlado and friend Giordano. Adwa, Eritrea (actually Northern Ethiopia)
April 24, 1934. |
A penny for her thoughts!
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![]() My mother was already two months pregnant. You might say that was my first trip to the caves of Postumia (Postojna in Slovene). The second was in 2008.
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Tiberio Birolini with unidentified friends. Fiume, 1936.
Classic film noir.
Vlado on parade with the shipyards Fire Brigade. Black Shirts on the reviewing stand - Fiume 1942.
There's no mistaking those legs! And a face that only my mother could love.
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My aunt Piccina and my uncle Dino with their very first doll.
Fiume 1939. The civic tower in the background - the eagle was removed by the Communists in 1949. The double-headed eagle was restored in 2017. In 1919, one of D'Annunzio's soldiers sawed off one of the eagle's two heads thus turning the Austrian eagle into a Roman one.
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My first impersonation of Humpty Dumpty.
Fiune 1939. From left: Nino, Vlado, Elsa, Aldo and close family friend Ubaldo. He could imitate a barking dog to my great delight.
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Studio portrait with my mother. I recall that the buttons on my shirt were green chicks. The pendant is the Raphael cherub.
My grandmother's house on the river Kupa.
the house today.
Uncle Claudio, an avid soccer player. Fiume 1939, age 14 .
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Uncle Claudio, 2nd from right, prisoner of war in Hamburg, Germany - 1945 - age 21.
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Uncle Claudio Zupancich - prisoner of war identification card. Kiel Canal, Germany.
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Last family photo taken in Fiume. From left: Aldo, Katarina, Claudio, Vlado, Elsa, baby Vladimir - May 1947.
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