How to creatively approach history teaching

Auxiliary teaching material “How to creatively approach history teaching” contains written preparations for teachers, students in the teaching of teaching units with topics:
“Faces of Resistance” and “Suppression of History and Remembrance” by Goran Đurđević in Documenta – Center for dealing with the past.

Availability: online

Language: Croatian

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Rambo Amadeus interrupted the Festival Belgrade Spring in 1992.

In 1992, a rock concert titled “Belgrade Rock Winner” was held during the Festival Belgrade Spring. The concert was broadcasted live by RTS. During the concert, Rambo Amadeus climbed on stage unannounced, wearing a recognizable fur coat. He interrupted Bebi Dol’s appearance and addressed the audience.

After this, for a long time he was removed from the state television program that broadcasted the concert. The then RTS planned to stop the live broadcast of the program as soon as Bora Djordjevic and Rambo Amadeus come on stage.

Availability: online

Language: Serbian

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War photo Limited

War photo Limited is a web portal containing war photographs of war photographers exhibited in the War Photo Gallery in Dubrovnik.
Photographs were taken during the wars of the 1990s in the territory of the former Yugoslavia and were divided into segments: Eastern Mostar, Under siege: Dubrovnik 1991. Broken lights of Yugoslavia, Enclaves, Bosnians, Blood and Honey, Decade of War, Srebrenica 11/7/1995.

Availability: online

Language: English

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Untold history, anti-war campaign 1991-1991

The book was published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Antiwar Campaign of Croatia. The aim of the publication is to map the history of antiwar women’s civil society initiatives during the 1990s wars in Croatia. The book is structured as a cross section of factography, personal memories and documentary material.

Title: Untold history, anti-war campaign 1991.-2011, Zagreb 2011.
Editors: Vesna Jankovic and Nikola Mokrovic
Publisher: Documenta – Center for dealing with the past, Antiwar campaign

Availability: online

Language: Croatian

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One history, several histories

The publication “Annex to the Textbooks for the Newest History” was published by Documenta (2008) – The Center for Dealing with the Past and the European Movement Split. Authors: Snježana Koren, Magdalena Najbar-Agičić, Tvrtko Jakovina.

An addendum to the textbooks with chronicle contains an auxiliary teaching material (handbook) for the teaching of history based on a multiperspectival approach to history teaching. The teaching material contains the original material, visual content, charts, maps and other content for the period from 1989 to the time of publication.

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Language: Croatian

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Fall of the Krajina

Filip Svarm’s documentary from 2007 gives an impression of the war in the Krajina, as well as the political and military details of fall of Krajina and subsequent exodus of the Serbian population. The film highlights the development of relations between Serbs in Croatia and the Croatian authorities since 1990 until the Operation Storm and the persecution of Serbs from Croatia in August 1995. The film follows events from the establishment of the autonomous Serb region in Croatia, in places with Serb majority populations.
Executive Production: Time Movie

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Language: Serbian

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Documentaries by the Center for Nonviolent Action

Fortress” – memory of war, author Nenad Vukosavljevic, shot in 2013, voice: Sanja Burazerovic from Zavidovici, duration: 4:27 minutes

Visits of veterans” – Documentary on joint visits to places of suffering, by former fighters from BiH, Serbia and Croatia, author: Nedžad Horozović, 2009, duration: 16 min

Everyone would gladly throw a stone“, 2006, Serbian-Croatian author: Nenad Vukosavljević, Running time: 45 min. The second film from the “Simulated Dialogue” series which deals with the attitude of people of Serbian and Croatian descent.

Traces“, 2004 – talks of former fighters, author: Nenad Vukosavljevic
Duration: 55 min. Four former combatants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia and four people close to them talk about their motivations to leave the war in the 1990s and their current views of the past and the knowledge they have gained in the meantime.

You do not hear a bird“, 2007 Bosnian-Croatian simulated dialogue, documentary, author: Nenad Vukosavljević, duration: 41 min.
Bosniaks and Croats talk about the war and the difficult legacy of the past, of hatred and pain, of fears and hopes.

It can not last forever” (2006), Documentary, by: Nenad Vukosavljević, duration: 47 min. the first film from the “Simulated Dialogue” series that discusses the attitude of Serbs and Bosniaks ten years after the war in Bosnia.

Availability: https://nenasilje.org/category/film/ ; https://nenasilje.org/2013/tvrdjava-sjecanje-na-rat/ ; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/posjete-veterana-2009/ ; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/film-pticu-ti-ne-cujes-2007/ ; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/svi-bi-rado-bacili-kamen-2006/; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/film-ne-moze-da-traje-vecno-2006/ ; http://nenasilje.org/online-kino/film-tragovi-2004/

Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

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“Tudjman, Milosevic: A War Agreement”?

Documentary dealing with relations between Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. It is based on the testimonies of the most prominent Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Bosnian politicians of that time.

The second part of the documentary is about the situation on the ground, namely, it answers the question of whether the 1991 agreement is seen in the war conflicts between the Serbs and Croats that followed.
Author of the film is Slađana Zarić. It was produced by RTS.

Availability: online – part I and part II

Language: Serbian

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Untold stories

“Untold stories” (2014) is a research project of the Vojvodina Civil Center (VGC) that deals with the issue of warfare – forced mobilization of civilians from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia on the territory of Vojvodina during the wars of the 1990s. Each of the individual stories represents a sum of individual experiences of various actors transmitted in a written, audio or video form. In addition to the statements, within each story, media documents related to certain events, official state documents, court records and factual material are presented, which contributes to understanding the context in which these events took place.

The “Unverified Stories” web platform is divided into two segments:

1) Stolen Freedom
The project entitled “Stolen Freedom” of the Vojvodina Citizens Center contains media articles, reports, audio and video contributions, oral testimonies of forced mobilization on the territory of Vojvodina, refugees from the war regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia during the wars of the 1990s in the territory of former Yugoslavia.

2) Inappropriate citizens
The “Inappropriate Citizens” project of the Vojvodina Civic Center contains media articles, reports, audio and video reports on the expulsion and systematic intimidation of members of national minorities, primarily Croats, in multinational environments of Vojvodina during the wars of the 1990s in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Each of the individual projects within the program is a sum of individual experiences of various actors transmitted in written, audio or video form.

Availability: http://www.neispricaneprice.com

Language: Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian

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Monuments on gunpoint

The exhibition consists of photographs, videos, eyewitness accounts and documents about the destruction of cultural heritage during armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The exhibition relies on the same narrative, depicting crimes against cultural, historical and religious heritage committed during the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, investigated, reconstructed and prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The exhibition also presents unprocessed crimes of destruction of cultural heritage, as well as destruction of monuments of the National Liberation War and antifascism in Croatia.

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Language: Serbian

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