2025
The Eleven Voices of Srebrenica
Over 62,000 Bosnian-Dutch live in the Netherlands. Thirty years after the genocide in Srebrenica, their stories are still hardly heard. How do you live on with war trauma, in a society that does not know your story, does not understand or perhaps does not even want to see it? And what can we learn from these people if we listen to them?
The eleven voices of Srebrenica is a multimedia project that places the stories of Bosnian Dutch people about the genocide at its centre. The focus thus far has been on the involvement of the Netherlands in the failed peacekeeping mission and the Dutch blue helmets. But the stories of first and second generation survivors remain overlooked. Through the podcast The eleven voices of Srebrenica and the exhibitions by the same title, these stories are given a lasting place in Dutch history while the existing views are broadened.
Exhibition National Monument Kamp Vught
Renowned photographer and filmmaker Robin de Puy makes the visual translation. Her work can be seen at Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught from June 26 to October 26. She shows the people behind the stories, using photography and film. The exhibition contains a mix of portraits,images and video footage from Bosnia and Herzegovina, supplemented with short documentaries: layered stories that focus on the lives of Bosnian Dutch people then and now. Starting in mid-May, a selection of this work will also be featured weekly in the Volkskrant.
See the entire project here.
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands