Surviving the Bosnian Genocide

Selma Leydesdorff is Professor of Oral History and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of We Lived with Dignity: The Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam, 1900¿1940 and editor (with Nanci Adler, Mary Chamberlain, and Leyla Neyzi) of Memories of Mass Repression: Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity.
Kay Richardson is a retired editor with 30 years of experience in international scholarly publishing. During her 13 years of residence in the Netherlands, she gained fluency in Dutch and developed an abiding interest in Dutch history and culture.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

On the Publication of the English Edition

List of abbreviations

Preface: What Happened Before

Sabaheta's Story

1. Farewell: The Desolation, the Women

2. An Orphaned World: Life before the War

3. War is Coming

4. Living on the Run, Living in Danger

5. A Human Shooting Gallery-Srebrenica 1992-1995

6. Violence

7. Departure without Arrival

Notes

Index

About the author

Selma Leydesdorff, translated by Kay Richardson, OtherMelissa Bokovoy, Margaret C. Jacob

Product details

• Authors: Selma Leydesdorff, Selma/ Richardson Leydesdorff
• Assisted by: Translated by Kay Richardson Selma Leyde (Editor), Selma Leydesdorff (Translation), Kay Richardson (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2015
• EAN: 9780253018045
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01804-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories