Scope and Contents This collection includes a variety of traditional textiles from Bosnia and Herzegovina that exhibit traditional fabric, construction, styles, and motifs. Items include weaving samples, slippers (čarape or priglavke), and clothing.Many of them are handmade by the women in collective civic organizations called Udruženje građana – žene muslimanke ‘Sumejja’ Udruženje građana – Citizens' Association Žene muslimanke – Musim...

Content Description Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was...

Content Description Domenick DiPasquale served as a US Foreign Service Agent in the US Department of State. He spent much of his career in Europe and the Balkans, and was stationed at the American Culture Center in Sarajevo from 1987-1989. After moving on, he continued to take an interest in the developments throughout Yugoslavia and its successor states.He amassed a significant personal collection of some 3,600 newspaper clippings, articles, and documents, photographs, maps, and periodicals. They...

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The personal collection of Elsie Roth, RN (of St. Louis, MO) documents the war and the relief missions she organized in the mid-1990s.

The collection includes slides, photographs, videotapes, audio tapes, newspaper articles, color reproductions of original artwork drawn by children in Sarajevo, a t-shirt (Maybe Airlines Sarajevo), a flak Jacket worn by Roth on one trip, and miscellaneous papers and handwritten notes.

Content Description Two hardbound volumes contain approximately 4,800 photographs of clothing and personal items found with human remains from mass graves in the summer of 1995 in the eastern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The people who were buried in these graves were victims of the war and genocide perpetrated between 1992 and 1995.These particular volumes were brought to St. Louis in the to help family members to identify the remains of their loved ones before more accurate DNA testing was readily...

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Vesna Kurspahić (née Prastalo) has lived in Belgrade and Sarajevo and spent nearly three decades in the United States. However, she has always considered Stari Majdan, in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, her hometown. Her family photographs depict everyday life in Stari Majdan between 1945 and 1992.

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The Center for Bosnian Studies oral history project (formerly the Bosnia Memory Project) is an ongoing historical and cultural documentation effort that seeks to establish an enduring record of the experiences of Bosnian genocide survivors and their families during and after the war.

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Near-complete run of Plima Magazin, a bi-monthly Bosnian-language publication that was published in St. Louis between spring 1997 and spring 2000.

Physical issues were obtained from publisher and returned after scanning. CBS holds physical copies of three issues.