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	HU OSA 386-3-8
Fonds 386:	Records of the Physicians for Human Rights' Bosnia Projects
Subfonds 3:	Administrative Records
Series 8:	Video Collection

Date(s) 1995-1999

Extent and medium

1 Archival boxes, 0.13 linear meters
21 VHS, 0.53 linear meters

Scope and content

The 21 videos contain programs and footage on Physicians for Human Rights' efforts to identify the bodies of those massacred during the genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995.

Some of the videos are educational programs explaining the identification project. Physicans for Human Rights hoped to identify victims by combining “postmortem” with “antemortem” data. The videos include an explanation of “postmortem” data or scientific information from the unidentified bodies analyzed by forensic anthropologists. They also highlight the importance of collecting “antemortem” data as well, which is information on the victims' clothes, lifestyles, etc. Collecting “antemortem” data from relatives requires a team of case managers. Some of the videos display the training of case managers and highlight the psycho-social issues that case managers face when confronting families.

Other programs include families describing their experiences during the genocide in Srebrenica. The videos contain many interviews with representatives and employees of PHR who explain their individual roles in the identification project. Many videos display footage of Srebrenica and the mass graves.

One of the videos is a documentary film called “War Kids” (1999) on young adults who lived through the violence in Bosnia.

Accruals Not expected

Conditions governing access Open for research.

Language/scripts of material Bosnian, English

Finding aids

• Scripts 1 container | Videos 21 containers

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Alison Littman in March 2009.
Online version updated 6 January 2012