„Hey! „ „ …man…„ „…what are you doing?„ „…are you up?„ Messenger notifications from my cell phone, on which I had forgotten to turn off the sound, were piercing my ears. It was Lazar, my high school friend, now working on his PhD in history. „ It is Saturday… 8 AM… I am sleeping… what […]

There is a great probability that a lot of Belgradians don’t know what they had for lunch yesterday. But in the whole Serbia you won’t find a person that doesn’t know exactly where they were and what they did on that fatal 24. March 1999. On that day NATO bombing began. The North Atlantic Treaty […]

My father Augustin Heussen was born on the 20th of February 1921 in Krefeld, Germany. The following lines are summarizing impressions and experiences from his diary written during his 1939 Balkan tour. After school on the 17th of July 1939 he was ordered to do his crop service in Königsberg, now Kalinengrad, in East Prussia […]

PICNIC+FRIENDS+BBQ =LABOR DAY Usually Labor day is associated with unions protesting against oppression, or at least with sending strong message by employees to employers that they are organized in claiming their rights guaranteed by the law. You might think that in Serbia, as former socialism country, this tradition is even stronger and more rooted in […]