Sunčica - Sunny was only eight months old when she was taken prisoner with her mother in Vukovar 1991. Twenty years later, Sunny is a grown girl and knows what was done to her and her mother. Croatia is interwoven with the strength of countless Sunnies. Sunčica - Sunny is the title of a bilingual Croatian-English book written against the crime of silence and suppression still being commited against her and her mother today. The book was published by the Society of former detainees of Serbian concentration camps in 2011. |
Promotion of the book Sunčica - Sunny 15 September 2011 Novinarski dom (Newspapermen House), Zagreb Danijel Rehak [MP3] introductory word of the president of Croatian society of former detainees of Serbian concentration camps Marija Slišković [MP3] author of the project of publishing the book |
It is estimated that about 30,000 people went through the terror of Serbian concentration camps. As many as 3,000 (three thosand) of them were women, and 500 (five hundred) children. The oldest raped woman was a grandmother at the age of 80 (eighty), and the youngest one was a child at the age of only 6 years (six)! |
The book has been translated into English by Nikolina Beljo and Julienne Eden Bušić. Authro of the project and editor of the book is Marija Slišković. Printed by PARVUS d.o.o. in 2011. The book is catalogued at the National and University Library in Zagreb, CIP 776155. |