More Than Memories: Srebrenica Survivor’s Family Photos Depict a Lost Childhood

Lamija GreboPotocariBIRNJuly 8, 202607:55Nirha Efendic was 16 when her father and brother were killed in 1995. Photographs collected for a memorialisation project about the Srebrenica genocide are a powerful reminder of her family’s last moments together. In a photograph taken in besieged Srebrenica during the Bosnian war but before the 1995 genocide, several people are sitting at a dining table having lunch. It shows Nirha Efendic, her parents, her brother and doctors from the international volunteer organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), MSF. No one would guess that a war was ongoing, or that this photo was taken in a town in eastern Bosnia where violence, hunger and insecurity defined everyday life.

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