Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak

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Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak

Selma Leydesdorff

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In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica-the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female survivors of the massacre who were interviewed by Dutch historian Selma Leydesdorff. The women, many of whom still live in refugee camps, talk about their lives before the Bosnian war, the events of the massacre, and the ways they have tried to cope with their fate. Though fragmented by trauma, the women tell of life and survival under extreme conditions, while recalling a time before the war when Muslims, Croats, and Serbs lived together peaceably. By giving them a voice, this book looks beyond the rapes, murders, and atrocities of that dark time to show the agency of these women during and after the war and their fight to uncover the truth of what happened at Srebrenica and why.

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Selma Leydesdorff

Selma Leydesdorff is Professor of Oral History and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She has been interviewing extensively on the Jewish community of Amsterdam, on the concentration camps of Mauthausen, and has participated in the Forced Labor project directed by the University of Hagen. She is one of the principal editors of the series Memory and Narrative (Transactions Publishers). She has been teaching oral history and life stories mostly in Amsterdam but also in China, Georgia, Istanbul, and Suriname. Her research on the stories of the victims of Srebrenica has received a lot of attention in the Netherlands and is seen as an important critique of the politics of the government and the silence and complacency about these matters. Some major publications include: We lived with Dignity, The Jewish proletariat of Amsterdam 1900-1940 (Wayne State Un. Press 1998) and the International Yearbook for Oral History and Life Stories, Vol. IV special issue: With L. Passerini and P. Thompson, Gender and Memory, Oxford 1996 (reprint 2005).