Diaries as testimonies about the siege of Sarajevo
Personal diaries are instructive historical sources for learning more about the lives, thoughts, feelings and experiences of individuals, as well as providing insight into the environment, socio-political context and atmosphere in which the authors were living. I am currently conducting a research about diaries written during the 1992-1995-war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This first article is a […]
The controversial issue of anti-Serb violence within besieged Sarajevo: Attempting a preliminary assessment
The siege of Sarajevo and the violence committed by Bosnian Serb troops against the city and its population are among the best known and most studied events of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Less well known than this violence against the city are the acts of violence committed inside the city by its defenders […]
Wer ist Walter? Resistance against Nazism in Europe
The international project “Wer ist Walter? Resistance against Nazism in Europe” was realized between 2022 and 2024 by crossborder factory, the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, CIFE – Centre international de formation européenne, and the Jasenovac Memorial Site, with the support of the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) and the Federal Ministry of […]
Exhibition “Wake up, Europe! Support and solidarity mobilizations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and its citizens, 1992-1995”
A project of the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in cooperation with Memory Lab, with the support of the Goethe Institute BiH and the French Institute in BiH The Covid pandemic and the “migration crisis” have put the question of solidarity in Europe back on the agenda: What do we understand by solidarity? What […]
Solidarity is more than a slogan – International Workers Aid during and after the 1992-1995-war in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Brussels Office, 2021, 262 pages. You can download the PDF here. You can order a free print version here. For the majority of people in Europe, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina remained mainly a TV event; many felt that it did not really concern them or that nothing could be done […]
Seminar cycle “Places of violence, places of learning” 2020-2022
The seminar cycle “Places of violence, places of learning” is organized by crossborder factory (Berlin), Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (Hamburg), Memorial of the Montluc Prison (Lyon) and Cultural Heritage without Borders Albania (Tirana), in the framework of the South Eastern Europe Initiative of the Franco-German Youth Office and of Memory Lab. The first seminar took […]
1945 versus 1995, Europe versus the Balkans? A plea for an inclusive and differentiating pan-European culture of remembrance
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – Brussels Office, 5.5.2020 ; English version: FOLLOW THIS LINK German version: FOLLOW THIS LINK Essay on the importance of including the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav history and memories in an European culture of remembrance. “(…) I am not trying to play off the wars of the 1990s against the Second World War […]
New publication: Promoting ‘Positive Stories’ of Help and Rescue from the 1992-1995 War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. An Alternative to the Dichotomy of Guilt and Victimhood?
In: Südosteuropa. Journal of Politics and Society, vol 67, n°4, 2019, 447-475; PDF in open access: DOWNLOAD PDF Abstract: Public discourses about wars and mass violence are often dominated by questions of guilt and victimhood as well as a focus on the figures of ‘perpetrators’ and ‘victims’. This can also be observed concerning the public […]
Memory Lab: The 9th annual study trip /workshop took place in Albania in 2019
The 9th annual study trip/workshop took place from 22 to 28/9 September 2019 in Albania. “Unbunkering the past: How is Albania dealing with its (communist) history?” was the leading question of the program which combined visits to memory sites in Tirana, Spac, Shkodra, Kruja and Gjirokastra, presentations and discussions with experts and time witnesses, and […]
New publication: “Pour une Europe solidaire”: Se mobiliser contre la guerre en Bosnie-Herzégovine, 25 ans plus tard (“For a Europe of solidarity”: mobilising against the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 years later)
In: La Revue Nouvelle, n°5/2019; For online version please FOLLOW THIS LINK During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 1992 to 1995, numerous individuals and groups in different European countries got engaged to protest against the war and the policy of “ethnic cleansing” and to show solidarity with Bosnia and Herzegovina and its citizens. […]