Six Years of War, One Day of Liberation

World War II ended 80 years ago. A series of talks with historians will accompany an exhibition of old newspapers which documented the gradual approach of war, its eruption, its rampage and its end with the liberation of Europe and the surrender of Japan.

Dr. Ali Žerdin
Dr. Ali Žerdin (1965), journalist and editor, has been involved in journalism ever since his student days at the Faculty of Social Sciences. He has contributed to the newspaper Tribuna, Radio Študent and the Mladina weekly. Later, after 1990, when his focus shifted mainly on analysing and commenting on Slovenian domestic politics, he worked as a journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of the Mladina weekly, and then editor of the Objektiv supplement and editor-in-chief of the Dnevnik daily. In 2006, he received the Student Prešeren Prize for his thesis on Slovenia’s network of economic elite. In 2008, he won the Slovene Association of Journalists Award. Since 2010 he has been the editor of Sobotna priloga, a supplement of the Delo daily. 

“An old newspaper is an item that belongs in the recycling bin, a trash can. However, a newspaper is also a record of time, of history. Newspapers are historical documents, and material remains of the past. The record of history is a historical object. Like a situla, an amphora, medical equipment in the Franja Partisan Hospital or a treasure. Trash can be treasure.” 
Dr. Ali Žerdin