>> We Jews have a word for this:

Pogrom <<

Photos taken in the refugee camps in Belgrade and Skopje, January 2000 Photos: Karsten Koal, Felix von Gruenberg, Kurt Holl

"They came into our house with machine guns. They said, "Get out, or we kill you!" My wife - she is Serbian - defended me at the door, "I am not going to leave my house. You will have to kill me!" The elders came to rescue us. We fled while those Albanians were plundering our homes and destroying them. I have lost all of my possessions. I have left all of my life in Kosovo. I only saved the Talmud. They said we had been collaborators - but for them everyone was a collaborator who did not want the secession. They threw out everybody who was not Albanian: Serbs, Turks, Gorans, Montenegrians, Roma and us Jews. We Jews have a word for this: POGROM.

Cedda Prlincevic, head of the Jewish community in Pristina (August 1999)

 

In the refugee camp Podgorica, September 1999 Photo: Theo Fruendt

In the refugee camp Obrenovac, January 2000 Photo: Felix von Gruenberg

In the refugee camp Podgorica, September 1999 Photo: Theo Fruendt

In the refugee camp "Deponia" Belgrade, January 2000 Photo: Kurt Holl