Our Differences and Pains
Lilijana Radobuljac
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“Peaceful reintegration has been successful!” shouted Lilijana Radobuljac entering the teachers’ room of the Nikola Tesla Technical School in the Borovo housing complex. Four years had passed since the...
A Time of Big Hopes
Jakica i Duško Simić
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Jakica and Duško Šimić were on the island of Korčula watching a Croatian TV report on Vukovar. The news was positive. They heard that when the Croatian Podunavlje region reintegrates into the constitutional...
A Unique Fire Brigade
Nikola Stamatović
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Nikola Stamatović tries to forget some years of his life, to not recall them. His life is good now. He gets on well with his wife. They’re both retired, healthy, they travel occasionally, take walks by the...
Trusting a New Beginning
Marija Molnar
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Marija Molnar led a pleasant and quiet life as the process for a peaceful reintegration was nearing its end, she says. She was in her late twenties, and was successful at her job as music director at Radio...
Oluja Child
Slađana Trbulin
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When Slađana Trbulin takes a break in Banija on her way to the coast in the summer, the place where she had lived for the first ten years of her life, she wonders what life might have been like had the war...
Greetings
Gorana Kušić
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Gorana Kušić was six years old in the summer of 1991. Her street in Sotin, a village on the outskirts of Vukovar, where she was born and her parents too, was the main spot for children to play. It was a...
A Long Way Back Home
Ivan Hubalek
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It was on the 19th of August 1996 when Ivan Hubalek came back to Vukovar, after leaving in January 1991. More accurately, he had not been back to the city of his birth since the 18th of January 1991. Ivan...