Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History -- 1945-1992

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

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 to help family members identify the remains of their loved ones before more accurate DNA testing was readily available....

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Vesna Kurspahić (née Praštalo) 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.

Scope and Contents Monumenta Srebrenica is a multi-volume academic monograph project dedicated to the systematic, multidisciplinary documentation of the Podrinje region’s cultural, historical, and demographic history. Launched in the early 2010s, it is published annually by the Public Institution for the Protection and Usage of Cultural-Historical and Natural Heritage of the Tuzla Canton under the chief editorship of sociologist Prof. Dr. Adib Đozić. The foundational...