(ANSA) - TRIESTE - A European project shared among Friuli Venezia Giulia, Slovenia and Croatia, on trail of the ''Women of the Resistance'' in order to discover hidden stories and offer them especially to the youth.

The project was presented in Trieste today. It began with the discovery of the diary written by Marie Antoinette Moro, a woman partisan born on the Italian-Slovenian border, then Red Cross nurse in Gorizia, who joined the Resistance in order to fight alongside the Yugoslav partisans at the beginning, and then alongside the Italians. Her story has remained unknown for decades, until her daughter, after his death, discovered and published her two diaries which offer a ''feminine view'' of WW2.

The project thus aims to disclose why women joined the Resistance, what it really means for a woman to ''resist'' today, what are the core values the women of the Resistance - personalities who, after the conflict, have been neglected to highlight instead the male 'fighters' - have delivered to the younger generation. A network of associations among the three countries has therefore started the exchange of information and documents in order to generate greater awareness of the values upon which today's active European citizenship is based. These activities include more than 60 workshops in high schools of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Slovenia and Croatia. On March 4, a conference will take place in Udine, chaired by Lidia Menapace, who will meet with students. Finally, the best short films and essays will be awarded a prize in Trieste on April 21.