Stories – Page 11 – Museum of Refugees Kosovo

Zoran Maksimović

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Zoran-Maksimovic.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Zoran Maksimovic (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, ZM= Zoran Maksimovic ZM: My name is Zoran Maksimovic; I was born on December 31, 1971 in Urosevac. We lived quite good with our neighbors Albanians before the war. There were no problems at all. In the meantime, there was a war and we had to leave our homes because the situation required that and the neighbors told us that we will not be able to survive further; and that's how we, left in June...

Myrvete Guri

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Myrvete-Guri.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Myrvete Guri (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, MG=Mirvete Guri BG: Tell us something about yourself first? MG: I am Mirvete Guri. I am a teacher at a professional secondary school. I am a biologist. BG: Can you tell us something about the time when the war started? MG: When the war started it was my first year working as a teacher in a primary school in the village, and by the end of the war we started to leave Kosovo, but not all...

Festim Avdyli

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Festim-Avdyli.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Albert Lekaj (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, FA=Festim Avdyli FA: I am Festim Avdyli. I was born in Prizren. I studied at the Faculty of Law, International Master program. Now I live in Prizren. I work here. I love literature, poetry, despite having graduated in another program. BG: Could you tell us something about the war please? What do you remember of it? FA: During the war, when it started in ’99, and when it began...before ending, my family, like one milion...

Daut Qulangjiu

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Daut-Qulangjiu.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Daut Qulangjiu (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, DQ= Daut Qulangjiu DQ: I am Daut Qylagjiu. I am the Romani program editor in Kosovo’s public television. I have been working as a journalist since 20002, I started working as a journalist in a radio, and in 2003 there was a job announcement for journalists or for the Romani desk in Kosovo’s public television. I applied and I was admitted as a journalist initially in this desk, and after two years I...

Albert Lekaj

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Albert-Lekaj.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Albert Lekaj (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, AL= Albert Lekaj AL: I am Albert Lekaj. I work as a designer. I come from Klina. The son of Ana and Leka (laughs). BG: What do you remember about the war? AL: Yes. Even though I was 7 year old, I remember things... that I myself experienced, but also hearing about them from my family members. I remember when a friend of my dad came and told my dad that the war had began...

Valbona Bylykbashi

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Valbona-Bylykbashi.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Valbona Bylykbashi (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, VB= Valbona Bylykbashi BG: Can you tell me something about yourself briefly? VB: Yes. My name is Valbona Bylykbashi. I live in Prishtina. I work as a manager at a kindergarten here in Prishtina. BG: Can you talk a bit about the war? What do you remember of it when it started? VB: About the war? Of course. The war affected many people. I have a story of my own about the war too. Firstly, I...

Nita Zeqiri

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Nita-Zeqiri.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Nita Zeqiri (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, NZ-Nita Zeqiri BG: Tell us something briefly about yourself. NZ: I am Nita Zeqiri. I am a photographer mostly, and filmmaker a bit. At the same time I deal with youth empowering. BG: Can you tell us something about the war and the overall situation at the time? Your first memories. NZ: I was 9-10 years old when the war started in Kosovo. At the time I was living in northern Mitrovica with my family. I...

Ibrahim Gashi

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Ibrahim-Gashi.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Ibrahim Gashi (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, IG= Ibrahim Gashi IG: I am Ibrahim Gashi from Privoca. I am now 69 years old. It was spring and we used to call it “the bloody season”. The spring of ’98 came with the smell of blood. In Kosovo the season came bleeding, as the barbarians brought them. They were severe for us in Kosovo. A season of bullets and gunpowder was the spring of ’99 when the barbarian madness made us...

Mersie Kameri

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Mersie-Kameri.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Mersie Kameri (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, MK=Mersie Kameri MK: I am Mersie Kameri. I was born on 1963. I have 5 children. I live with my husband. We have lived as refugees for 18 years in Skopje. BG: Could you tell me something about the situation when you were told that you had to leave the house and go to Macedonia? MG: When the war began, we were frightened and went to Skopje. We saw the aircrafts shooting missiles and when...

Blerina Muqolli

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Blerina-Muqolli.mp3 Bjeshka Guri (interviewer) Blerina Muqolli (interviewee) Acronyms: BG=Bjeshka Guri, BM=Blerina Muqolli BG: Could you please tell something about yourself? BM: Yes. So, I am Blerina Muqolli. I come from Peja. I have finished the primary and secondary school in Peja, then I continued my studies at “Hasan Prishtina” University here in Prishtina, in the department of Journalism at the Faculty of Philology. I have worked as a journalist in a TV and a newspaper. Now, for two years and some months, I have...