Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 377

Title

David Rohde Collection on Srebrenica

Date(s)

1990 - 2000

Description Level

Fonds

Extent and medium (processed)

15 Archival boxes, 1.88 linear meters
2 Archival card box, 0.63 linear meters

Context

Name of creator(s)

Rohde, David

Archival history

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.

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

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.

Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Restricted. See conditions on the series level.

Languages

Bosnian, Dutch; Flemish, English, French, German, Serbo-Croatian

Allied Materials

Publication note

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

Description Control

Archivist's note

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