Gal Kirn, in his new book "The Memory of Liberation: Studies on the People's Liberation Struggle in the (Post-) Yugoslav Context" (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts), dedicates one chapter to photographic material from the Unwanted Images archive, in which he explores the representation of liberation, women, and partisan printing houses. Read more...

The year 2024 marks the 81th anniversary of the biggest and bloodiest battle fought by the Yugoslav National Liberation Army, also called the Partisan army, during World War Two. In the years that followed, countless stories and myths have been written about the Battle of Sutjeska, or the so called Fifth Enemy Offensive. However, such mythology is actually to be expected given the dramatic nature of the event itself. Read more...

With a gaze directed at the camera lens and a big smile, Nurse Beba looks at us. The back of the photograph only reveals that it was taken in Dubrovnik, probably in 1945. However, along with the photograph, we also find handwritten documents, an entire confession of Beba, real name Marija Supičić, a nurse in Šamarica, and later a medical referent of the Disabled Home in Hvar located in the Hotel Park. We bring you the reconstructed confession that Beba wrote by hand in the seventies on sheets of paper, which provides valuable information about the functioning of the partisan medical service.