Initial Release: July 2020

Partners: Srebrenica Memorial Center

Supported by: National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

Official website: https://srebrenicamemento.com/

MEMENTO: Fragments of the Srebrenica Genocide is a multimedia educational project containing real-life stories and portraits of Srebrenica Genocide survivors and victims’ families detailing their life and their fight to survive during the genocide. The project includes a photography exhibition, mobile app, audio testimonies and a photo-book of Srebrenica Genocide survivors.

The project is based around objects donated by Srebrenica Genocide survivors and victims’ families, objects found in mass graves around Eastern Bosnia, and objects found on the path of the infamous ‘Death March’. Each object is paired with a portrait of the person who donated it and their personal testimony and commemorates the lives of 115 people who were killed. MEMENTO is based on findings from the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Center.

As part of the 30th anniversary commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide, the exhibition “MEMENTO: Fragments of the Srebrenica Genocide” was inaugurated at the European External Action Service (EEAS) headquarters in Brussels by Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission. The exhibition was organized by the EEAS in cooperation with the Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC), the Srebrenica Memorial Center, and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.