Missing origin of the Independence Act, unresolved enigma 28 November

Historian Christo Frasher may have left the most valuable testimony regarding the original's location, but unfortunately he did not mention a name during this testimony, reports Day. In an interview for VOA, just before his life changed, Frascher said a person showed him this document in 1962, but refused to officially hand it over:

“ ...this document came to light in 1962. The owner said that he had delivered Ismail Kemal with his hand. He also had a letter from Ismail Kemal saying: “Be careful. This is a big document, of outstanding importance”. He kept it, and he wouldn't give it. In 1962, maybe he was afraid...

I talked to that owner myself, and I tried to get him to donate the museum to a reward. Then it passed, and he delivered only a few documents. This is the story of the original. I can't say more. I can't say more.

That document may even exist today, perhaps even today. For instance, some day might come as a surprise because it is a document of rare value. Anyone who took it could not have broken it. He would have saved it. Even materially, he has enormous values...”, Frasher once said.

And after that about the person or people who own it, Frasher says: “ ...are not here in Albania. They're not in Albania. I think they're not. I don't know. The problem is this; if we don't have the document in the original, we have it reproduced...”

Historian Pascal Milo claims the document is still being sought, but finding it has resulted in a difficult process. During a scientific conference two years ago, Milo said that “is also doing research in foreign archives, but so far there is no concrete evidence of where this fundamental document of the Declaration of Independence” can be found.

There is both chance and disaster that may have disappeared and that unfortunately we will not have. We have not surrendered, we will keep looking for it, but it is a difficult process”, Milo said.

According to him, this document is thought to have ended up in the hands of Ismail Kemal's family, namely, of a son who lived and changed his life in Struga.

Historian Ilirim Dervis supported this version. He says the year of the loss of traces of the document on the act of independence coincided with the year Qazim do Vlora, Ismail Kemal's second son, has been displaced from Albania to Struga, where he lived the last 17 years of his life.

And after declaring independence he was the head of his cabinet. A large part of the Albanian state documentation, Qazim do Vlora brought to Struga”, Dervisi says.

From witnesses of the time, after Qazim beu's death, a large quantity of books and documents from municipal cleaning workers have been extracted from the house. In 1975 the home is owned by Ramadan Azazi, who made several minor repairs, especially on the roof.

From a conversation with the current owner, we learn that an amount of Arabic writing books have been found on the roof. It goes on to say that on the first floor it broke down an inner wall with great thickness, in which it found books and letters in Arabic placed in a polysa inside the wall, which it also threw away. The owner of the house doubts that valuable documents can still be found on the thick walls of the house, including perhaps the document of the Albanian State's declaration of Independence”, historian Ilirim Dervisi has said.

Albania's Independence Act was signed by about 40 delegates from all Albanian lands in 2728 November in Vlora. But, in the version “Nosi” of the statement being circulated today are not all firms.

Even this statement has been made by historian Christo Frasher: “ ...was the declaration of independence reproduced in the mourning of that time, very clean, very clear, except with a lack. I don't know why that absence happened. The act of declaring independence filled the two pages of the letter before and behind. Signatureers didn't get the whole page. Some of them have signed in the background of the document. Lef Nosey didn't publish this page. Why I don't know... ”!

There is also a thesis that says Albania's original Independence Document may have been donated to former Yugoslav leader Josip Brzo Tito and the act be located in Serbian archives. Another thesis takes the Independence Act farther to the west, where it may have been locked in one of Europe's archives or donated.

According to modern historians and documents, the National Assembly that produced the Declaration of Independence opened the work at 3: 30 a.m. on November 28. A total of 37 delegates attended, which later increased to 63 people and represented all Albanian areas.

This assembly established the Interim Government, and it was appointed Pleassia, or Senate. Further procedures continued with the signing of the act of the National Independence Declaration.

At 5: 30 p.m., Ismail Kemal appeared on the balcony of the building raising the flag. The building was one of two sarahs of the renowned Vlora family, whose picture was also Ismail Kemal. These Saraarees have existed until 1925, when they were destroyed, to leave the site of the construction of the Greatflower at today's Flag Square in Vlora. /Day/