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Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- History -- Siege, 1992-1996

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Domenick DiPasquale Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CBS-COL-003
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...
Dates: 1985 - 1998

Elsie Roth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CBS-COL-002
Content Description

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.

Dates: Dates are approximate and are taken from stamped dates on slides. Newspaper article lacks source but appears to be from 1995.

Little Bosnia

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 01
Identifier: CBS-PUB-010
Content Description

Printed script of Cristina Pippa's play set in Sarajevo and St. Louis. Includes brief character breakdown and dramatis personae with descriptions at the beginning.

Dates: Copyright: From title page

Photographs from Wartime Bosnia and Herzegovina

 Collection — 1, Envelope: 01
Identifier: CBS-PUB-014

Photorgraphs: Sarajevo 1992, 1992, 2023

 Collection — 1
Content Description From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1992; Digitized: 2023

Sarajevo 1992 1993 1994 1995, 1996

 Item — Box 1, Envelope: 02
Description Illustrated print map of Sarajevo (mapa opsade) with paper band. Ozren Pavlović's illustraions capture the city in the Miljacka River valley with artillery, tanks, and mortars positioned on the surrounding high ground. The map marks the most deadly areas, including "Sniper Alley," a main boulevard where civilians were frequently targeted, and uses circles and crosshairs identify the most dangerous zones. The map also details the networks that formed underground, documenting...
Dates: Publication: 1996

Srebrenica: Mapping Genocide and Post-Gendocide Society [letter]

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 03
Identifier: CBS-PUB-012
Content Description

Letter addressed to Dr. Ben Moore outlining a new education program developed in BiH by FAMA Methodology.

Dates: 2015-11-23

The Fall of Yugoslavia, 1991-1999, 1991 - 1999

 Item — Box 1, Envelope: 01
Scope and Contents 1 map; colorBackground NotesFAMA was the very first independent multimedia company in the former Yugoslavia. Led by Suada Kapić, FAMA launched popular projects like the television talk show The Art of Living (Umijeće življenja), focusing on contemporary, progressive social and political issues.In 2014, the organization transitioned into a non-profit association called FAMA Methodology. Rather than treating...
Dates: Other: 1991 - 1999

TRIO Sarajevo Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: CBS-PUB-006
History and Context Design group Trio Sarajevo (husband and wife Bojan and Dalida (Durakovic) Hadzihalilovic and collaborator Leila Mulabegovic Hatt), formed in 1985, was part of the Sarajevo generation that was raised on the punk culture and pop-art movements. Trio Sarajevo opted to remain in Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia, continuing to earn a living as commercial designers. Note at the bottom of each postcard: “This document has been created in war circumstances. (No paper, no inks, no electricity, no...
Dates: Some of the postcards are dated; the exact date of the compilation and its contents are unknown.