News in English     | 28.10.2020. 14:53 |

Srebrenica Memorial and BIRN launch 'Lives Behind the Fields of Death' project

FENA Press release

SREBRENICA, October 28 (FENA) - The Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center and the Balkan Investigative Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIRN BiH) are embarking on a joint project this week to record hundreds of testimonies of genocide survivors.

With this project, the Memorial Center and BIRN BiH want to connect individual testimonies with items in the Memorial Center's museum collection, which have so far been donated by survivors, and to collect new artifacts and testimonies.

This is the first oral history project based on the methodology developed by the Memorial Center. The center will continue to work on the development of the methodology in the future, in cooperation with De Montfort University in Leicester, the Press Service of the Srebrenica Memorial Center said in a statement.

“The primary target group in that project are the victims of genocide, their families and people affected directly and indirectly by the crime, as well as the returnees to Srebrenica and the wider area. Through the project, BIRN BiH provides victims with much-needed voice and space in the public sphere to share their stories, while the Memorial Center will collect and store personal belongings of victims found in mass graves and use them through exhibitions of real-life stories interrupted by the 1995 genocide,” said Denis Džidić, Director of BIRN BiH.

Hasan Hasanović, who manages the project on behalf of the Memorial Center, emphasizes the importance of the project of collecting objects and each individual personal story.

He adds that "this is an opportunity for all of us, to preserve the memory."

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