the diary entry of the independence day dates June 13th, 1999 and it contains three A2 size callendar pages written thinly behind a local women's undergarment factory comercial calendar. I havn't been able to read the text written there due to the automatic association with the memories of that time/day which I am not ready to face, even in Helsinki, where a distancing has allowed me to approach certain trauma-related memories that were impossible to revisit back at home.

War exhibition/installation - List of items I possess:

1.The backpack which I had packed in case my family were to be fleeing or expelled from home contained: 

 A few underpants

 Warm clothes 

 A shampoo bottle of the Yugoslavian brand ‘Kosili’

 Poetry notebooks dating from early ‘90s to the day 

2. Journals

3. Diary of independence day

4. paintings and sketches

5. Notebook with German soldiers’ signatures

6. tapes from the choir with songs sang before and after the war

7. photos of family and friends right after the war

8. the red phone through which my head teacher communicated the news that there will be no more school for indeterminate time due to a bomb that was found planted on the improvised house-school.

 Possibly still in possession: the notebook with phone numbers of uncles abroad which me and my brothers were trained to carry around in our pockets all the time, in case the family was separated. We were trained to approach uniformed war camp aid officials to ask for help. (If the notebook is lost, can I get hold of the exact phone numbers of my uncles’?)

To be found: ITN reportage done with me after the liberation which includes my story of preparations during the war and visit to the old parallel school and the institution which I were to start my classes in after the segregation was over. 

IDEA: invite the audience to pack the backpack depending on what they find to be important to take with if they were to be in my place and kicked from their own home, and owning the items exposed.