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Dragana Smiljanić

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Dragana-Smiljanic.mp3 Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself first? Dragana Smiljanić: Dragana Smiljanić from Lipljan. I have been living in Laplje Selo for 13 years. I got an apartment from the Government of Kosovo. Dragana Smiljanić: How do you remember the period before the war? Dragana Smiljanić: Before?! Before the nineties, it was good, after the nineties it was chaos. Even small children are taught from a young age to shout „democracy“. I couldn't cross the street from them. That's it. Demonstrations and various moments....

Gorica Mitrović

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MITROVIC-GORICA.mp3 Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself first? Gorica Mitrović: Mitrović Gorica from Lipljan. Interviewer: How do you remember the period before the war? Gorica Mitrović:Well, before the war, everything was fine. So, we lived normally. We walked, moved and so on. Interviewer: What do you remember from the war period and how did you leave your home? Gorica Mitrović: Well, I remember it like this, it suddenly happened on March 17. Everything was calm. So, there were no people, there were no gatherings, and suddenly...

Lazar Stakic

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/LAZAR-STAKIC.mp3 Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself first? Lazar Stakic: Hello! My name is Lazar Stakić, I am from Štimlje. I currently live in Novi Badovac. Interviewer: How do you remember the period before the war? Lazar Stakic: I remember the period before the war as a happy and joyful childhood where I spent my time with my brothers and friends in various games. Interviewer: What do you remember from the war period and how did you leave your home? Lazar Stakic: From the period of...

Olivera Spasojević

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Olivera-Spasojevic.mp3 Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself first? Olivera Spasojevic: Yes. I am Olivera Spasojevic. Before the war, I lived in Pristina. Now I live in Laplje Selo as a returnee. I've been here for 13 years and I'm happy to be back, I have to say that. At the beginning, I was afraid because it was coming back to me, that's the first question, what I went through was coming back to me. That conscious situation. As I will, we will...

Silvija Rašković

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Raskovic-Silvija.mp3 Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself first? Silvija Rašković: Good evening. I am Silvija Rašković from Klina. Interviewer: How do you remember the period before the war? Silvija Rašković: For me, that period is the most beautiful period. Because I am an optimist by nature and I will always remember the good things that happened. Student days in Pristina are the most beautiful days. We didn't know about fear, we didn't know about poverty. We didn't know about starvation. The freedom of movement...

Srđan Pantić

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Srdjan-Pantic.mp3 Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself and say what you remember from the period before the war? Srđan Pantić:Well, it's an ugly period, during the war. Hey, what can I say?! An empty city, a city of 300,000 people, will be some 40,000 - 50,000. There are no neighbors around you, it's not... it's not all the same. What I... it's ugly, ugly. Interviewer: And how did you leave your city? Do you remember a time when you had to leave your...

Silvana Marinkoviq

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Silvana-Marinkovic.mp3 Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself first? Silvana Marinković: I am Silvana Marinković. By the way, I am a displaced person from the village of Slivovo. I was born in Gračanica, I lived in Gračanica, but I was married in Slivovo, where since 1999, we were forced to leave the village of Slivovo, which is about 14 kilometers from here, towards the town of Gnjilane. Because um, at night, they shot at the village. I had two small children then. One...

Olgica Subotiq

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Subotic-Olgica.mp3 Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself and say where you are from? Olga Subotic:I am Olgica Subotic. I was born in Radevo. I lived in Obilić, now I'm here gr... in containers, now I'm in an apartment. I never left Kosovo. Interviewer: How do you remember the period before the war? Olga Subotic: Before the war, it was wonderful. In my village where I was born, there was only one Albanian. I sat with Gjuzdjida at the same table... at the same desk....

Valbona Azizi

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Valbona-Azizi.mp3 The interviewer: Okay. Welcome to this interview and thank you for agreeing to be interviewed. As I explained to you, you have to talk about your experience as a refugee. We could start with when the war started. Where were you, who were you with, and what do you remember? Valbona Azizi: Thank you. It is my pleasure to talk all about it because it was a really difficult situation. Maybe the fact that my children were little made the whole situation...

Vjeshtore Zeqiri

https://museumofrefugees-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Vjeshtore-Zeqiri.mp3 The interviewer: Once more... Vjeshtore Zeqiri: I was in Drenica, at my father’s uncle's when the war started. I stayed there for 2 months. Then my father came to pick me up. He came by tractor but when then on the way back we were on foot. It took him a while. I was too little. I had really missed my family and when I was walking on the way home I saw some corn – I would say hi to the...