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	HU OSA 208-3-3
Fonds 208:	Records of the Open Society Institute–New York
Subfonds 3:	Office of Communications
Series 3:	Sarajevo Related Video Recordings

Date(s) 1992-1994

Extent and medium

23 Beta SP, 0.69 linear meters
25 VHS, 0.63 linear meters

Scope and content

The collection covers the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, when Serb forces and the Yugoslav People’s Army circled and blockaded the city for almost 4 years, from April 1992 to February 1996.

It contains 48 tapes with edited and unedited footage, including raw and background footage, documentaries, event recordings, television programs and news reports. The large majority of the collection consists of short films and raw material produced by SaGA (Sarajevo Group of Authors), a group of over 30 multi-ethnic professionals and filmmakers from Sarajevo which documented the Bosnian war as it was unfolding. SaGA’s teams particularly covered the first 2 years of the war when the siege was at its height and grave abuses were committed.

The highlights of the collection are: “Sarajevo: A Street Under Siege,” a 2-minute film broadcast every night on BBC, bringing a day-by-day account of how the siege was affecting a group of ordinary citizens, and “Confessions of a Monster” which features a raw interview with the first person to be charged with the crime of genocide since World War II.

Overall, the collection offers first-hand material testifying to the massacres in Sarajevo, the damage caused by war, and the grave human rights violations.

Accruals Not expected

Conditions governing access Open to the public

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyrights are held by creators/producers (no rights are held by OSA at CEU).

Finding aids

• 48 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 304 Records of the International Human Rights Law Institute Relating to the Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia (IHRLI), 1973-1994
• HU OSA 308 Monitoring of the Yugoslav Television, 1996-1999
• HU OSA 309 Monitoring of Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1996-1999
• HU OSA 319 Video Recordings of the Proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 1996
• HU OSA 350-1-1 Balkan Archive, 1990-2001

Note

Keywords: art, Bosnia, massacre, SaGA, Sarajevo, shelling, siege, theater

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Alexandra Lăzău-Ratz in September 2011. Revised by Anna Kövecsi in September 2011.
Online version updated 19 April 2012