History

Our grannies - the Alexandrian women The massive female emigration from the Goriška region to Egypt in the second half of the 19th century started due to the fact that during the construction of the Suez Canal, and still more so after its opening in the year 1869, the number of European entrepreneurs..


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Events

A documentary entitled "Alexandrian Women" started to be created in 2008 when Metod Pevec, a director and scriptwriter, and a researcher Barbara Brezavšček Stegeman made a contact with our Society. The film includes testimonies of the Alexandrian women, their descendants and protégées who are nowadays living in Slovenia and around the world. In the film take part: MATILDA VIDMAR,  DOROTEJA..


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