Nevenka Troha

Nevenka Troha holds a PhD in History and is a retired research adviser at the Institute of Contemporary History. She studied the Slovene-Italian Anti-Fascist Union and the Communist Party of the Julian March between 1945 and 1947, and later focused on researching Slovene-Italian relations in the area. She also researches migrations in the Julian March after the Second World War, events in the Free Territory of Trieste (1947–1954), as well as the position of the Slovene minority in Italy and the Italian minority in Slovenia between 1945 and 1990. She is the author, together with Zdenko Čepič and Damijan Guštin, of the book „Komu Trst: Slovenci in Italijani med dvema državama“, as well as the book „Slovenci v vojni 1941–1945.“ She has delivered numerous lectures in Slovenia and Italy on the Foibe, the position of Slovenes in Zone A of the Julian March, the Slovene-Italian border, relations between political parties and organisations, and events in Slovenia during the Second World War. She was the leader of the Slovenian group of collaborators on the ERA project, the Archives of the European Resistance Movement. Since 2005, she has translated books and articles in the field of contemporary history from Italian into Slovenian.