Resisting Genocide: Preserving Bosnian Culture
In August, 1992, the largest book burning in modern history took place when the National Library in Sarajevo was annihilated by deliberate shell-fire from Serbian army positions. This destruction was only one facet of a systematic campaign to annihilate not only the Bosnians, but every trace that their society ever existed. Bridges, museums, mosques, churches, graveyeards, schools, manuscript collections, and art collections have been systematically burned, dynamited, shelled, and ploughed under.
The National and University Library engulfed in flames following shelling by Serb Nationalist Forces, Sarajevo, August 26, 1992
The foundation has produced, Killing Memory: Bosnia's Cultural Heritage and Its Destruction in collaboration with DUTV at Drexel University. It is a videotape of Andras Riedlmayer's internationally acclaimed slide lecture. COB works with Bosnians to produce works on the architecture, art, and literature of Bosnia. We translate the writings of Bosnian poets, novelists and essayists.