Zagreb

The novel, “Girl at War” written by Sara Nović, is a book about the life of a girl named Ana who is 10 years old that lives in Zagreb, Yugoslavia during a time of war. Ana and her family are constantly in fear of losing their lives and so they do everything they can to survive. Ana eventually escapes the war by going to America, but the events of the war did affect her and molded her personality as she got older. Ana eventually goes back to Zagreb to get closure and in a way she does. She reflects back at her past and realizes that that the reason she was able to survive the war was because she had a strong and loving family. The theme is that a child that is exposed to war will normalize the uncommon such as violence and due to this normalization…

Woman Called Croatian Doctor Dolittle Doctor Dolittle of Croatia is a nickname we all love to call her, but that nickname makes her angry, too. Doctor Ingeborg Bata is a veterinarian at Zagreb Zoo. A woman who once had a leopard for a pet, an elephant for her best friend and cared for babies like little lions and little seals. In her life, there are no free days and no vacations. Her life is dedicated to those who need her most, to all kinds of animals. Treating animals with the same…

Though some may have gotten to know her for Rhythm series during the 1970’s she began during performance art while completing her education at the Academy of Fine Art in Zagreb (SYME,2)( Ungvarsky,1-3). Now as I mention before most people learnt or knew of her form her Rhythm series. The series is a series of different performance pieces done in the 1970’s. Though the series is very famous there is one in particular called “Rhythm 0” were she gave her audience or co-artist a chance to be…

massacred, and separated from their friends, families, and businesses. “The Holocaust was the mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis during World War Two” (“World”). It all started with the Nazi tyrant, Adolf Hitler, who planned to wipe out the entire Jewish population as part of the his plan to overcome the world (“World”). There are many concentration camps where many Jews are being massacred everyday (Wigoder 260). Teodora Basch was a strong, little girl who had to go through the…

During World War II, under Hitler’s leadership, Germans and their accomplices around Europe murdered 6 million Jews. They destroyed Jewish communities that dated back to ancient Rome and almost completely eliminated the Jewish presence from Amsterdam to Athens, Zagreb to Zhitomir. The Nazis had other victims, but they unleashed their fullest fury against the Jews, whom they hunted across every border, into every hiding place, in a systematic, total drive for annihilation.…

traveled to the Soviet Union, working in the Balkan section of the Communist International from February 1935 to October 1936. According to the New World Encyclopedia, Tito became a member of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet secret police (NKVD); in 1936, he returned to Yugoslavia to purge the CPY’s leadership (Josip Broz Tito, 2016). From 1937 to 1938, Gorkić and many other leaders of the CPY were purged by Stalin and then replaced with Tito’s hand-picked lieutenants; in 1939, he…

reminder that God loved me, and that I wasn't alone. I don't know. I felt like I finally found my place. So that's one of the main reasons why I'm still religious. Ha, feels strange talking about it. Anyway, my friends don't really mind, I'm fortunate to have very accepting friends. How did your friends react to you being/becoming an atheist? No, the majority of the people in my country are unaffiliated. We are a free country where it has never been strange to see a gay couple marry or someone…

She had been working closely in the Church with Fr. Jambrenkovic and learned about her desire to do missionary work. After deliberating and praying, Agnes accepted her desire to work for God. She told her mother, who was not surprised. Agnes decided on the Loreto Sisters because of their missionary work in India. Agnes’s journey was long and difficult. She travelled to Zagreb, Croatia with her mother and sister to wait for another girl, Kanjc. Together the girls travelled to Paris in 1928 and…

remained living without any punishment, until the formation of Nazi hunters began to bring them to justice. Efraim Zuroff is one of the last Nazi hunters still alive and working. In Zuroff's 40 years of being a Nazi hunter, he has submitted more than 3,000 suspects to 20 countries. Although not all of the suspects have been caught, due to them evading police or just dying before any legal action can be taken, a great number of them have been caught and arrested. Zuroff says that his biggest…

Towers on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The people that originate from the Middle East are perceived as terrorists or religious extremists. This perception has affected and continues to affect people from these parts of the world till the day of today. How Muslims and the Islam religion is perceived affects them in negative ways but these perceptions are far from reality. The world 's perception of Muslims of the Islamic religion aren’t the best. Commonly all of the Islamic faith…