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	HU OSA 377
Fonds 377:	Collection of David Rohde relating to Srebrenica

Date(s) 1991-1999 (1995-1996)

Extent and medium

12 Archival boxes, 2 linear meters
2 Archival card boxes, 0.63 linear meters

Name of creator(s) David Rohde

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited by David Rohde, New York City

Scope and content

Materials in this fonds include newspaper clippings and media monitoring material, news agency releases, reports, memos, trial transcripts, correspondence, manuscripts, artefacts and audivisual recordings.

These are backgorund materials relating to the fall of Srebrenica 'safe area' in July 1995, collected by the journalist David Rohde. Covering the war in Bosnia for the Christian Science Monitor, he was the first Western journalist to report about the mass graves where thousands of massacred Muslims were buried after the Bosnian Serb troops captured Srebrenica. In 1996 Rohde was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this series of articles.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 377-0-1 Subject Files, 1991-1999
• HU OSA 377-0-2 Mission Notebooks, 1995-1996
• HU OSA 377-0-3 Artefacts, 1995
• HU OSA 377-0-4 Interview Recordings

Conditions governing access

Restricted. See conditions on the series level.

Language/scripts of material English

Finding aids

• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (RIP 9: Human rights)

Related materials

• The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam

Publication note

David Rohde: Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1997

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Csaba Szilagyi in September-November 2003
Online version updated 17 November 2009