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Home Primary Resources Further Reading, Arts & Exhibitions Books Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Woman of Srebrenica Speak

Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Woman of Srebrenica Speak

Leila Khan reviews Selma Leydesdorff’s astounding collection of testimonies from women who survived the Srebrenica genocide.

Dutch historian, Selma Leydesdorff, brings together the testimonies of 60 women who survived the genocide in Srebrenica. Through the interviews, the author paints a picture of pre-war Bosnia, when the Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs co-existed peacefully, through to the post-war period where many of them still live as refugees.

The stories of these women, and their courage highlight their humanity in what was a grotesquely inhumane situation. Women’s voices from the war in Bosnia are rarely heard. Most of the time they are presented as victims of rape and murder. This collection of interviews offers a deeper insight into their lives under the most testing of circumstances, where everything around them was literally falling away.

Apart from the extremes of violence and death, there was the daily grind of no food, water, electricity; an inability to go out to meet, to see, to even breath fresh air. The interviews also reveal the super-human efforts by the women to uncover the truth of how, why, and what happened during those fateful days. If the Dutch soldiers shamefully failed to protect the men folk of Srebrenica, at least one Dutch civilian has given the surviving women the opportunity for us to see the war through their eyes.

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December 13, 2014 Books
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The Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Doha this week. Founded in 1923, it is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Bosnia, and remarkably managed to perform more than 100 concerts during the siege, despite heavy shelling & sniper attacks https://t.co/IETGAUiO1a.

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In the lead up to the holidays, we are suggesting books for people looking for something Bosnia related to read over the Christmas period. For younger children, Tusk Tusk is a first lesson in tolerance and understanding. A fantastic picture book.

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Every day this week, we will be suggesting books for people looking for something Bosnia-related to read over the Christmas period. Next is Bosnia: A Short History - a brilliant work of history which set the terrible war in the Balkans in its full historical and political context

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'The world will judge their claim of no genocide with evidence. A thief never admits he is a thief, but justice can be delivered through evidence'. Chair of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights hits back at claims by Aung San Suu Kyi https://t.co/AVU6agztn8.

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In the lead up to the holidays, we are suggesting books for people looking for something Bosnia related to read over the Christmas period. A moving depiction of life and death during the siege of Sarajevo.

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