Mayor Zoran Janković and his delegation visited Rome on 9 April 2014 where he was received by Mayor of Roma, Ignazio Marino. He also greeted the visitors at the opening of the exhibition 'When My father Died'.

The Mayor of Ljubljana answered the invitation of Mr Marino and the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Rome. The mayors mainly discussed the further cooperation between the cities.

They also addressed the visitors at the exhibition entitled 'When My Father Died – Quando morì mio padre' organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Rome together with the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Rome – the Committee on Culture to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Fascist camps closure.

The exhibition displays the essays and drawings of children between 7 and 13 who were internees in the concentration camps at the Italian eastern border between 1942 and 1943. The writings and drawings were collected by partisan schools from the liberated area in the Kočevsko region, Kočevje and Ribnica in the spring 1944.

The purpose of the exhibition and the accompanying symposium 'The Oblivion of Duce's Concentration Camps' is primarily the historical preservation of memory of the atrocities of the Italian Fascist regime and concentration camps in the Italian public and in the conscience of younger generations. In Slovenia, where the victims of the foregoing acts of cruelty were numerous, the memory remains very much present.

The exhibits, provided by the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, are accompanied with a detailed description of geopolitical and military situation in Slovenia during the war and the bilingual Italian- Slovenian exhibition catalogue including the photo material and contributions of the esteemed historians and exhibition curators, i.e. Dr Metka Gombač from the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr Dario Mattiussi from the Leopoldo Gasparini Centre for history and social research and documentation situated at Gradišče ob Soči and Boris M. Gombač from the National Museum of Slovenia. đ

The exhibition has already been on display in many Italian, Slovenian and Austrian cities – in Nova Gorica, Koper, Venice, Maribor, Ljubljana, at the Rice Mill Concentration Camp in Trieste, Spinea, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Villach and Treviso. It will be on display at the House of Memory and History in Rome until 30 May 2014.