Zlata Filip 208 Essay

There was a total of 13,952 people dead and the war left the cities and town in ruins. Zlata Filipović was born on December 3rd, 1980 in Sarajevo Yugoslavia. Because of her diary, that got published, she was called the “Anne Frank of Sarajevo”, and now lives in Dublin, Ireland after living in the war then in Paris, France for a year. She was 11 when she started to write a diary, and a few months later the War of Sarajevo started in April of 1992 and went through to December 1995. It was unbelievable that people lived there, or can live there anymore, (Filipovic). Zlata Filipović raised awareness about the impact of the War of Sarajevo on Bosnia’s citizens through her works like Zlata’s Diary, and Stolen Voices. Filipović’s text

They also had others that were running away from the wars even though those stories are the most common ones read. They have stories from many different times and many different wars to let others remember, see, and understand what these people went through as a child or teen. “This collection was the first of its kind to expose the shared experience of conflict of young people, wherever and whenever the violence may have occurred,” (Challenger and Filipović, xxi). Zlata and Melanie made a book that shared many different experiences that many different kids had in the many different kinds of wars, whether shooting in the war or hiding from it. This book helped others remember and see what some people went through during their childhood, and also showed not only diaries of young people who were experiencing conflict in towns, cities, camps, hiding places, and ghettos but also include those whose hands were assigned a gun. So you weren't just given half of what it was like to be in a war as a child, you were given the whole story. Some of them are teenagers, and some are children but they are all in this one book to help people understand that everyone gets terrorized by