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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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    The CroMe project is financed by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Matra Programme: supporting social transition. The Matra programme supports countries in Southeast and Eastern Europe in the transition to a pluralist and democratic society, governed by the rule of law.Read more

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Mira Repac

Mira Repac was born in Bihać, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1968. Her family suffered losses in the Second World War. Her paternal grandfather was killed by the Ustaše in Garavice near Bihać, a place where mass killings occurred. Before the war in the 1990s she lived with her family in the village of Srb, in Lika. During the war she lived in SAO Krajina [Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina], which she left in 1995, at the time of Operation Storm, as a refugee. She was a witness of the shelling of the refugee column in Bosanski Petrovac. After spending nine years in refuge in Sremska Rača, she returned to Croatia, to Donji Lapac, together with her family. Their house was neither destroyed nor burnt down, but it was however devastated. Today her family lives in poor circumstances, as they have no income.

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