The war plucked a whole year of our lives and drenched it in loss.
The war in Ukraine has reached its one-year anniversary. I know the significance of this milestone because 30 years ago, I lived through a nearly four-year siege as a child in Sarajevo, Bosnia during the Bosnian War.The first year of the Siege of Sarajevo began on April 5, 1992, and was pockmarked with pain, fear and loss: I was wounded by a mortar shell that hit our apartment building. My father lost his job when the company he worked for ceased to exist.
and started feeding our family with the leftovers from the UN soldiers, often making an effort to surprise me with an orange or some chocolate.While my brother's efforts staved off hunger, the sense of scarcity permeated every other aspect of our lives under siege. Whenever we were out of toothpaste, my mother would cut the tube open lengthwise and at the bottom seam so that it splayed out like a gutted fish.
In the first months of the war, we could say:"This will soon pass. Just a few more months and we will have peace." We said it to each other, but more often to ourselves. The incessant shelling and our daily privations said otherwise, but we gained some comfort from picking a date a few months into the future—usually a birthday or a holiday—which we hoped to celebrate in peace.
Nadja Halilbegovich, aged 17, sitting on the rubble of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo in 1996.Nadja Halilbegovich
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