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    The aim of the project Unveiling personal memories on war and detention is to affirm personal memories of all interested witnesses of political events in Croatia and to preserve them from falling into oblivion.Read more

    The methodology which Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past uses in collecting personal memories is partially grounded in the basic methodological principles of the oral history method. It has been used since 1948, when the oral history method was accepted in the scientific community as a technique of documenting history and it enables Documenta, as a human rights organization working on the process of dealing...Read more

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Anita Vedrić

Anita Vedrić was born in Zadar in 1980. Her family comes from Islam Latinski, a little village in the Zadar hinterland. She is a religious teacher by profession. Before the war of the 1990s, she lived in a relatively wealthy family. Her father was involved in social movements during the Croatian Spring of 1971, and her family declared themselves as Catholics during Yugoslavia. At the beginning of the war, she and her mother and brother fled to Rome, Italy, where her father had already been, and after a short time her mother, brother and her returned to Zadar. She spent the time of the heaviest bombing of Zadar with her mother in Zadar. Her grandmother was killed during the war. She returned to Islam Latinski in 1997. Today she lives in Posedarje with her husband and two children.

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