CroMe interview with Jasenka Borojević

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The female interviewee, born in 1946 and with a Croat background, recalls the stories her father told her about his time in detention in WWII in the Jasenovac camp. She tells that she got married with a man with Serb background and explains that this never posed any problems in the family during Yugoslav times. She describes the growing suspicion towards her husband in the 1980s. She tells how her husband went missing during the war in the 1990s and how she found out that he was tortured and killed. She describes the burial of her husband during the war and about her fears to start a police investigation to find out what happened. The narrator tells about how people started disappearing during the war and about Operation Storm. She also tells that her husband until this day has not been recognized legally as a war victim and explains the legal battle she continues to fight. The narrator describes the hardship she is facing being a woman alone and lacking justice concerning the death of her husband.

Date Submitted: 2013-09-24

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xvr-7fee
Metadata Access https://ssh.datastations.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.17026/dans-xvr-7fee
Provenance
Creator Documenta - Center for Dealing with the Past, Zagreb
Publisher DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities
Contributor A.J. van Hessen; This interview is part of the Croatian Memories (CroMe) project funded by the MaTra fund. Using the method of oral history Documenta is recording semi structured interviews with the goal of collecting individual oral testimonies of war and detention from 1941 until today. The aim of the project is to create a platform for victims and interested witnesses of history in order to affirm personal memories and preserve them for future generations.; Documenta Zagreb
Publication Year 2013
Rights DANS Licence; info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; https://doi.org/10.17026/fp39-0x58
OpenAccess false
Contact A.J. van Hessen (Universiteit Twente)
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Resource Type Dataset
Format application/x-subrip; application/zip
Size 91016; 85812; 19449
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Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; History; Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law; Life Sciences; Medicine; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences