Anthology of wounds - Arct

SELFIXHE BROJA (CIU)Anthology of WoundsShe was born in Gjirokastër,in 1918, finishing high school inTirana. She then continued acourse for foreign students in literatureat the University of Florence.Some of her writings arepublished in the daily newspaperKolombia, starting in 1935. InJanuary 1947 she and her husband,drama writer Xhemal Broja,were interned in Kuç of Kurvelesh. They were then internedfor the second time in 1966, for five years, in theGradishte of Lushnja. She died in August of 2003. Shepublished her book “Billows of life” before she died.THE SECOND INTERMENTOn the afternoon of December 14, 1966, activists ofthe neighbor notified that on the next day would be organizeda special meeting in our neighborhood and wewould certainly participate.My husband said to them that I was sick, while hewas engaged with an assigned term job and he was lateon time and he could not leave it.“Why the meeting was for?-We talked to each other.But I was sick, and my husband preoccupied for the jobhe was doing, so we didn’t speak for long.We slept late at the night. Just on the dawn somebodyknocked on the door, and we woke up with fear.Every door knock in that time made us feel a bad hunch:the same was the feeling of that moment. Further more,144