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Hilda Marija Foley
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| Hilda Marija Foley, nee Czerny, born in Zagreb 1928. Father was called to serve as officer in Domobrani in 1943/44 and was severely wounded in Bosnia. When he was transferred to a German hospital, Hilda with her mother and brother visited him in early 1945 and were advised that Spring not to return to Zagreb again and they became refugees from communism like so many others. Her family settled in Bavaria, Germany, where she met her future husband Jerry when she worked in the office of the American Military Government. They married in 1952 and returned to his home in New York. Their home is now in So. California. They have two daughters, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. As her daughters grew older Hilda renewed her love for art and painting that she had as a child, and started painting again in the traditional style. She became a semiprofessional painter, selling several hundred paintings in oils and watercolors and winning over seventy awards in open art shows, including many blue ribbons, several "Best of Show" and an "Artist of the Year" recognition in her Orange Art Association. All this activity ended in 1991 when Croatia declared its independence, ensuing aggression by Serbia. She started to write letters to politicians in Washington, the UN, France, Germany, England, web sites and major newspapers and magazines here and abroad on behalf of her homeland and defending it from anti-Croatian propaganda. To date they number well over 4,000. |
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Letters to Amnesty International and the Financial Times
| Croatia seems to always be looked through a microscope while others are treated with kid gloves in the media and in the political world. Hilda Foley (left) has written two letters addressing these concerns, to both the Financial Times and Amnesty International. |
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Western powers stood silently by while Croatia was attacked
| In a recent letter to the Monthly Review, Hilda Marija Foley (left) writes" By now, 17 years after the wars in former Yugoslavia, one could assume that most people interested in its history would have come to the same and correct conclusion as to who started the wars." |
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The actual historic facts must be recognized once and for all
| In a recent letter to the International Herald Tribune, Hilda Marija Foley (left) writes "In your article 'EU proposal lays out steps on Kosovo independence' by Dan Bilefsky and Stephen Castle Dec 12, 2007 the commentators make the often quoted but erroneous statement when writing that the early recognition of an independent Croatia accelerated the breakup of Yugoslavia." |
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Marco Polo's Croatian roots based on solid research - London Financial Times
| The article mentions that Croatians believe Marco Polo was born in the town of Korcula on the island of the same name in Croatia. His being born there, or certainly his family coming from there, is based on solid research of the Polo Croatian family roots - by Hilda Marija Foley |
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Answer to British MP article - British MP's total ignorance.
| The largest resistance to German and Italian occupiers was carried out by Croatians, forming partisan brigades already in June 1941, that eventually with Bosnians numbered 34 units....by Hilda Foley | |
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