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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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Ivanka Katava

Ivanka Katava was born in 1968 in Stari Jankovci, in eastern Slavonia. At the outbreak of the war in the 1990s she was with her husband and family in Stari Jankovci. With the beginning of the conflict she sought refuge with her small child, first in Vinkovci, and later in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her husband, who was subject to a work obligation, stayed in Jankovci. At the time of the fall of Jankovci she was in Ivankovo, whilst her mother, father, brother and grandmother remained in Jankovci. In March 1992 all four of them were killed in their own house. According to the stories that she later heard, her father and brother had spent some time imprisoned in the Stajićevo camp. An indictment for the killing of her family has been issued, but those responsible are still out of reach and the crime has never been prosecuted. Ivanka Katava returned to Stari Jankovci in 1995, and she still lives there today

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Family origin Family background Growing up and youth Barricades Not believing there is a possibility for war Whirlwind of war Stari Jankovci under occupation Murder of family Exile Coming to Vinkovci Return to Stari Jankovci Exhumation Life after the war Reflections on the war War crime trials Future generations Stajićevo prisoner-of-war camp Memorial in Jankovci Is reconciliation possible?
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