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The male interviewee, born in 1928 and with a Serb background, recalls memories about his experiences during the WWII. He describes the attack of the German army in 1944 and the...

Jovo Kovačević was born in 1957 in Donji Lapac, Croatia. His family was active in the resistance movement during World War II. In September 1991 he was conscripted in the...

The female interviewee was born in 1923 in Bosnia. She was 18 years old when WWII started. During the war, she was captured and kept in an Ustashe prison in Petrinjska street....

In the early eighties, this interviewee went to university in Zadar, where he studied history and philosophy. He served in the army in the borderland garrison in Surdulica, near...

Slavko Komar was born in Gospić, Croatia in 1918. He went to school in Zagreb, where he got a law degree. In 1937 he became a member of Young Communist League of Yugoslavia. He...

This male interviewee was born in the late fifties in a family of Croatian farmers. Their village was surrounded by villages with a mostly Serb population. In the sixties, there...

Croatian Memories (CroMe) - Unveiling personal memories on war and detention. In this project citizens of Croatia from all social layers and regions are interviewed about their...

De heer Veenstra werd als student in 1941 door de Duitsers opgepakt vanwege Engelandvaren. Hij werd gedeporteerd naar Sachsenhausen, waar hij als typist werkte in de...

Nationaal Monument Kamp Amersfoort, op de grens van Leusden en Amersfoort, is een van de drie bekendste Nederlandse herinneringscentra. In de periode 1941 tot 1945 hebben...

Milan Nakarada was born in Ličko Petrovo Selo, Croatia in 1934. Before the Homeland War he lived and worked in Lika, Croatia. Following the outbreak of the war his native...

Deze Indische man werd al snel na de Japanse inval op Java in 1942 als krijgsgevangene naar Ceram verscheept, waar hij moest werken voor de Japanse bezetter. Hij werd ziek van...