Career
She researches Italian modern history, including the Italian resistance movement and Italian war crimes. She is the editor of a group called "Resistenza storica" at "Kappa Vu edizioni", an Italian publisher. Her research (confirmed by the documents found in British archives by the British historian Effie Pedaliu and by the Italian historians Costantino Di Sante and Davide Conti) pointed out that the memory of the existence of the Italian concentration camps and Italian war crimes in general has been repressed due to the Cold War.
Yugoslavia, Greece and Ethiopia requested extradition of 1,200 Italian war criminals who however never saw anything like Nurnberg trial, because the British government with the beginning of cold war saw in Pietro Badoglio a guarantee of an anti-communist post-war Italy.
In the 1950s, two Italian film-makers were jailed for depicting the Italian invasion of Greece. She gives the French people"s understanding of the Vichy period as an example.
In 2003, Italian media reported that Silvio Berlusconi had said, "Benito Mussolini only used to send people on vacation". This gave weight and illustrated the thesis made by Kersevan.
In February 2012, Italian state television talk show host Bruno Vespa televised a photograph from July of 1942 depicting Italian troops killing civilian hostages in the Slovenian village of Dane and claimed that it showed the opposite.
Killings like these, ordered by Italian general Mario Roatta, were widespread during the Fascist occupation of Slovenia. Kersevan, who was a guest on the show, objected, but Vespa did not apologise, and a former Minister of the Republic compared Kersevan to the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security). A protest by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia followed. 2008 Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica.
