David Rohde Collection on Srebrenica

Fonds

Kept in the apartment of David Rohde in New York City until the fall of 2001. Selected by David Rohde, packed by Branislav Kovacevic, Records Manager at Blinken OSA and shipped to Budapest by registered and insured commercial mail in the same year.

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.

Not Expected

Partially Restricted (2 Folder/Item Restricted - 87 Folder/Item Not Restricted)

Third party rights are to be cleared.

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

Processed by Csaba Szilagyi, Vlad Moghiorosi, Stephen Westlake, Niklas Wittmann, Erzsebet Arvay, Stephanie Haszczyn, Yana Kitaeva and Mariia Zimina, 2005-2020.