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• Title:[Leegte achter ons laten. English]
  Surviving the Bosnian genocide : the women of Srebrenica speak / Selma Leydesdorff ; translated by Kay Richardson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Leydesdorff, Selma.
  
• Published/Created:Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: DR1313.32.S68 L4913 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Atrocities--Bosnia and Hercegovina--Srebrenica--Personal narratives.
  War widows--Bosnia and Hercegovina--Srebrenica.
  
• Genre/Form:Personal narratives.
  
• Description:xx, 242 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary: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. Drawing on their memories, 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.
  
• Notes:"Originally published as Selma Leydesdorff, De leegte achter ons laten : Een geschiedenis van de vrouwen van Srebrenica (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2008)"--Title page verso.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780253356697 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0253356695 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780253005298 (e-book)
  0253005299 (e-book)
  
• Contents:Preface: what happened before
  Sabaheta's story
  Farewell: the desolation, the women
  An orphaned world: life before the war
  War is coming
  Living on the run, living in danger
  A human shooting gallery: Srebrenica 1992-1995
  Violence
  Departure without arrival.