The
Day of Wedding Bands (La giornata della fede)
As stated in this poster, on Sunday,
December 18, 1935 millions of Italians relinquished their gold
wedding rings to the Fascist goverment in exchange for a metal band
which had that date engraved in it.
Nina Ciceran recalls that day in
which her own peasant mother, Caterina Iurman, was obliged to do the
same, as undoubtedly were the majority of Istrian women.
Source:
- ITALIAN LIFE UNDER FASCISM:
Selections from the Fry Collection - Exhibition in the
Department of Special Collections, July through September 1998,
Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, © 1998 by the
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System-
https://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/dpf/Fascism/Images/FRY12.html
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