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Messages from Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992-1995

Francis Bueb in the “Paris - Sarajevo” library-gallery, 1994. Photo by Gerard Rondeau (Personal archives Zlatko Dizdarevic

“Paris-Sarajevo” bookshop-gallery / Center André Malraux

Advertisement published by Amnesty International, 1992 or 1993 (Archives “Grünes Gedächtnis”, Fonds Eva Qúistorp)

“Never again?”

Marian Wenzel (back centre) at the entrance to the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1995. (Archives History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

“Bosnia-Herzegovina Heritage Rescue”

“Peaceful Bosnia”, Cover page of ARKzin, May 1992 (Archives Anti-War Campaign Croatia)

Anti-War Campaign Croatia

“Which Europe?”, postcard edited by “Citoyens, citoyennes pour la Bosnie Herzégovine” in France, 1995. (Archives CHT Nantes, AEC Nantes)

“Which Europe?”

“European campaign to host and support the deserters from ex-Yugoslavia”, European Civic Forum, 1994 (Archives Mir Sada, Lyon)

Deserters from ex-Yugoslavia

“The heart of Alsace in Sarajevo”: Official campaign poster, featuring an illustration made by the Alsatian artist Tomi Ungerer specifically for the occasion. (Personal archives Anne Schuman)

Alsace-Sarajevo-Convoy

Cover and extract of the 1994 annual report of the Open Society Fund Bosnia and Herzegovina (Open Society Fund BiH, Digital Archive)

Open Society Fund Bosnia and Herzegovina

Example of a letter sent to Sarajevo through Italy (Archives Beati i costruttori di pace)

Postal service

Photos from the personal archive of Nela Pamuković, 1994-1995

“Centre for Women Victims of War”

“Wake up Europe – Sarajevo calls every man, woman, and child”, postcard / poster designed by “Trio”, 1993.

“Wake up Europe“

Cover of the book “Witness to Genocide” by Roy Gutman

“Witness to Genocide”

“Bosnie – Réagir!” (“Bosnia: [We have] to react!”), brochure front page, 1993 (Archives Mir Sada Lyon)

“Bosnia – We have to react!”

“Suncokret”, poster, 1992 (Personal archives Sanja Bezjak)

Suncokret

Sadija Klepo during an aid convoy to Zenica, Zepce and Maglaj in Spring 1993. (Personal archives Sadija Klepo)

“Hilfe von Mensch zu Mensch”

“German federal government should officially recognize the Bosnian-Serb Citizens’ Council”, press communique of the Society for threatened people, 28.6.1995 (Archives GfbV)

Serb Civic Council

“A camp where ethnic groups are purified, doesn’t that remind you of something?” Informational text about a billboard campaign organized by “Médecins du Monde”. (Archives CHT Nantes, Fonds AEC Nantes)

Doctors of the World – Médecins du Monde

Ariane Mnouckine publicly reading the Declaration during the Avignon Festival, in the courtyard of the “Palais des Papes”. Photo by Liliana Andreone (Archives La Cartoucherie)

Avignon Declaration and hunger strike

Screenshot “A street under siege”

“A street under siege”

“To survive the war. Bosnian refugees are looking for guest families”, Leaflet, 1993. (Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis, Fond Eva Quistorp)

“Surviving the winter”

Letter by Haris Pašović to a theater in Stockholm, 17.8.1993 (Archives MESS Festival)

MESS Festival

Plaque “Place Sarajevo” (Replica donated to the History Museum of BiH by the city of Nantes)

European Citizens Assembly Nantes / AEC Nantes

“Let’s make the Balkans a mosaic of peace and of living together”, leaflet, 1993 (Archives Alexander Langer Foundation)

Verona Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in former Yugoslavia

Screenshots youtube video about satellite connection between Sarajevo and U2-.concert in Bologna, July 1993 (see link in the text)

Zooropa tour U2

”Sarajevo Festival Ensemble” - Cover of program booklet, Theatre Bouffes du Nord, Paris, September 1994 (Archives MESS Festival)

”Sarajevo Festival Ensemble”

Cover of the “New Spektar” magazine, September 1995 (Personal archives Sophie Kepes)

Sarajevo – poem by Czesław Miłosz

“Bosnia Report. Newsletter of the Alliance to Defend Bosnia-Herzegovina”, issue 1, October 1993 (Collection Bošnjački institut - Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpašića)

Alliance to Defend Bosnia-Herzegovina

Cover of the brochure “Solidarity not charity. July - August ‘95 Trade Union Convoy to Tuzla”, published by Workers Aid for Bosnia, Manchester, 1995

“Solidarity not charity”

The kindergarten Leptirić (= small butterfly) in Sarajevo, which was renovated with the help of SHL in 1995. (Archives Schüler Helfen Leben)

Schüler Helfen Leben

Poster announcing the concert with Bruce Dickinson, November 1994 (Photo by Chris Dale)

Bruce Dickinson concert

4th HCA Assembly in Tuzla, 1995, booklet cover (Personal archives Bernard Dréano)

Helsinki Citizens Assembly

“I am not a safari-tourist”, Interview with Bibi Andersson, “New Spektar,” 1995, published by International Peace Centre

“Safari tourists”

Convoy to BiH organized by the Polish “EquiLibre Foundation” / Polish Humanitarian Action (Archives Polish Humanitarian Action)

Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH)

“Declaration for a free and unified Sarajevo” (extracts), published in Oslobođenje, 1.10.1994

Declaration for a free and unified Sarajevo

Screenshot of the “Help Bosnia now”-video, 1992

“Help Bosnia now”

Resignation letter of Tadeusz Mazowecki, published in Bosnia Report 11, June-August 1995. (Collection Bošnjački Institut – Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpašića)

Resignation of Tadeusz Mazowiecki

IWA convoy on it’s way to Tuzla, 1994 (Photo by Thomas Proctor)

International Workers Aid

Cover of the German translation of “A fairy tale about Sarajevo”, Freiburg, 1995

“A fairy tale about Sarajevo”

Poster “Sarajevo Film Festival”, 1993 (Archives History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Sarajevo Film Festival(s)

Information leaflet about the exhibition “Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia”, cover, Paris, 1994 (Personal archives Jacques-Olivier David)

Exhibition “Ethnic cleansing”

“Solidarity of peace in Sarajevo”, poster, 1992 (Collection Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa )

“The March of the 500”

“Sarajevo - to the conscience of the world”, call by independent intellectuals and independent Radio 99, disseminated by the French NGO “Sarajevo capitale culturelle de l’Europe” (Archives Théâtre du Radeau)

Circle 99

Monika Hauser (centre), with Zilha Hadžihajdić and Sabina Čengić, who both worked at the Medica centre, the first as coordinator, the second as gynecologist. (Photo from the archives collection of “Medica Zenica”)

Medica Zenica

Cover of the publication “Why”, 1995, with a photo of the destroyed National Library by Gervasio Sanchez

“Why. Publication for human rights and peace”

First page of the ballot paper for “Europe starts in Sarajevo” list, 1994 (Personal archives Sophie Kepes)

“Europe starts in Sarajevo”

“Bosna”, film poster 1994

“Bosna” by Bernard-Henri Lévy

Nigel Osborne and Brian Eno during a music workshop in Mostar in 1995. Photo by Keith Brame (Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45135625@N08/40849503154/ )

War Child

“Tribute to Sarajevo. Destruction of the image / image of destruction”, La Fonderie / L’Harmattan, 1993 (Archives Théatre du Radeau - La Fonderie)

Theatre du Radeau

Cover from first edition of “Dnevnik Zlate Filipović / Diary of Zlata Filipovic” (Archives History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

“Diary of Zlata Filipovic”

TSRT’s lead vehicle “Tessa” during a convoy, 1993 (Photo by Max Reeves, personal archives of Max Reeves)

The Serious Road Trip

Cover of the “Barcelona for Sarajevo” exhibition catalogue, featuring a drawing by Antoni Tapies. (Collection Bošnjački institut - Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpašića)

Barcelona

Photo from the archives of the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mozart’s Requiem

Map made by the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana showing works of art donated to the “Sarajevo 2000” project, 1996. (Personal archives Enver Hadžiomerspahić)

Sarajevo 2000 / Ars Aevi

Calendar published by Women in Black, 1995, with photos of activities organized in the previous years. (Personal archives Jadranka Miličević)

Women in Black

“Days of defiance”, Oslobođenje, 26.1.1995

“1000 days of resistance against the siege of Sarajevo”

Information leaflet about AIM, 1993 (Archives Mir Sada Lyon)

“Alternative Information Network” (AIM)

Photos from the personal archives of Amra Pandžo

“European Club”

“1994 - Ten years later - The flame is still alive”, commemorative stamp Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 8.2.1994

Olympic solidarity

Diary of Gerard Speckman, which he kept while traveling on the Peace Now peace march in 1993 (Personal archives of the Speckman family)

Gerard Spekman’s travel to Sarajevo

“Miss Sarajevo”, 1995, DVD-cover

“Miss Sarajevo” by Bill Carter

“Humanitarian help / Support for peace groups / Political PR work”, leaflet cover (Personal archives Alida Bremer / Ali el Baya)

Initiative against the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Münster

“Sarajevo. A newspaper against barbarism. Oslobođenje, the last free journal of Bosnia and Herzegovina, must not die.”: Campaign launched in France by FNAC, Nouvel Observateur and “Reporters without borders”, to collect donations for “Oslobođenje.” (Personal archives Nicolas Moll)

Support for “Oslobođenje”

“Sarajevo Cultural Capital of Europe”, poster of the Sarajevo Winter Festival 1993/4. (Archives History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Sarajevo Cultural Capital of Europe

Panel with Tadeusz Mazowiecki during the 4th Assembly of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly in Tuzla in 1995, organised in cooperation with the Forum of Tuzla Citizens (extract of the HCA brochure “Unite the citizens, unite the nations”)

Forum of Tuzla Citizens

Leaflet published by the GfbV in September 1992 (Archives Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker)

Society for Threatened People / GfbV

Photos extracted from the exhibition catalogue “Eine Stimme gegen das Versagen Europas in Bosnien”, published by GfbV

Demonstrations in Vienna, June 1993

“Zlatko Dizdarevic. Journal de guerre”, poster, France, 1993 (Personal archives Zlatko Dizdarević)

“War journal. Chronicles from besieged Sarajevo”

“SOS Sarajevo - Are we able to help them?”: Poster of the “SOS Sarajevo” crowdfunding campaign organized in the Czech Republic in 1993. (Archives People in Need Foundation)

People in Need Foundation

“Graphic maps Sarajevo 92, 93, 94”, Information leaflet, cover, 1994 (Collection International Peace Centre)

“Graphic portfolios Sarajevo 92-95”

Cover of the newsletter “SOS Balkanes - Oslobođenje” 4/1994 (Archives CHT Nantes, Fund AEC Nantes)

SOS Balkanes

“No wall through Sarajevo” - Berlin Appeal, August 13, 1993 (Archive “Grünes Gedächtnis”, Fond Eva Quistorp)

“No wall through Sarajevo”

Photo of the weekly Friday gathering in Stockholm, extract from Kristdemokraten, December 22, 1995. The banner reads “Let Bosnia live”

Friday gatherings in Stockholm

Audio-Recording of the “An evening for Sarajevo”-event organized by the American PEN Centre in 1993 (PEN America Digital Archive)

Support for PEN Centre BiH

“Warchitecture: Urbicide Sarajevo,” cover of exhibition catalogue published 1994 by Asocijacija arhitekta DAS-SABIH

“War Architecture – Sarajevo: Wounded City”

Message from IKV/Interreligious Church Council, 1993 (Archives MESS Festival)

“Hiroshima 45 – Sarajevo 93

Photos from the personal archives of Simon Glinn

Community Music Sarajevo

Examples of newsletters published during the war (Personal archives Nicolas Moll)

Newsletters

“Lettre International”, issue 31, 1995, cover page (Archives Lettre International, Berlin)

Special issue “Lettre International”

“Sarajevo notebook. Notes of a journey to barbarism” by Juan Goytisolo, cover of the Spanish edition, El País/Aguilar, 1993

Juan Goytisolo “Sarajevo notebook”

“Letter from Sarajevo”, excerpt from “Žene za mir”, Belgrade, 1995 (Personal archives Jadranka Miličević)

“Letter from Sarajevo”

“Support the peace builders”, Poster edited by the Interchurch Peace Council (IKV), 1992. (Archives Pax)

Interchurch Peace Council (IKV)

Letter by Zdravko Grebo from May 1993 (extract), informing about the creation of Radio ZID and asking for international support, May 1993 (Archives MESS Festival)

Radio Zid

Sarajevo Winter Festival poster 1994, published by International Peace Centre / Sarajevo Winter Festival. (Image from the forthcoming book “Bosnian War Posters”, by Daoud Sarhandi, Interlink Publishing).

Sarajevo Winter Festival / International Peace Centre

“Mir Sada - There is only one peace. International peace march, Split - Sarajevo, 2-14 August 1993”, poster edited in Italy (Collection Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa)

Mir Sada – Peace March 1993

Leaflet from July 1995 (Collection Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa)

Italian Consortium of Solidarity (ICS)

“Waiting for Godot”, poster 1993 (Archives MESS Festival)

“Waiting for Godot”

Demonstration at the Buchenwald Memorial, July 1995 (Archives Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker)

Buchenwald Memorial

Letter sent by Gerard Spekman to besieged Sarajevo to Sabina Sijarić, 9 September 1993. (Private archives of the Speckman family)

A letter after 28 years

Flyer of “Sarajevolistan”, 1995, the slogan says: “Fair peace in Europe - our responsibility” (Personal archives Wilhelm Agrell)

“Sarajevolistan”

“That we in Bosnia belong to the world…”, book cover, published in 1995 by Johannes Vollmer / “Kulturbrücke Schweiz-Sarajevo”

Culture Bridge Switzerland-Sarajevo

Photo by Zoran Kanlić (Archives History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Laibach-concert

Newsletter “Sarajevo”, issue 18, september 1993, publishe by the “Association Sarajevo” in Paris

“Association Sarajevo”

Information leaflet about Ship to Bosnia, published in autumn 1994 (Personal archives Mick Woods)

Ship to Bosnia

“Everyone in Cannes the 26th June, for Bosnia” / “Europe is reborn or dies in Sarajevo”: Public gathering in Barcelona, June 1995. (Photo by Ana Alba, extract of “Força Sarajevo”, Barcelona, 2002)

“Europe is reborn or dies in Sarajevo”

“Don’t let them kill us”, photo by Paul Lowe, 1993 (Archives History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina).

“Don’t let them kill us”

Book cover “Nachbar in Not” (“Neighbor in Need”), 1994

Nachbar in Not

“Message from Belgrade: We do not agree to the victory of evil”, letter by members of the group “Živeti u Sarajevo”, Oslobođenje, 8.6.1995

“Living in Sarajevo”

Parliaments

Sticker produced for the demonstration in Caen on June 4, 1994, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy. (Archives CHT Nantes, Fonds AEC Nantes)

Demonstration in Caen on June 4, 1994

“Bosnia and Europa. The ethnicisation of society”, book cover, 1994

“Bosnien-Hilfe”