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Quilt Weavers

Nura Suljic (above)

Nura was born in 1960 in a small village named Podkorjeno, part of Srebrenica.  She has a pleasant childhood and was married in 1982.  She had three children and lived in Pusmulice until Srebrenica fell in 1995.

Nura came to Tuzla on July 12, 1996 and moved amongst collective centers in Dubrave, Sicki, and Simin Han for a year.  Many other members of her family did not make it out of Srebrenica and are still missing. She has no news of her husband, Bajro, who was working in Serbia when the war began.

Nura must be both father and mother to her three children.  She has worked at Bosfam since 1995, and the money she receives from the carpets is her only source of income. 

Sajma Avdič (right)

Sajma was born in 1962 in Pobuđe, part of the Bratunac Municipality in Northeastern Bosnia. She finished elementary school and married at the age of 18.

With her husband she had a son and daughter. Sadly her husband died in 1990 and in 1992 Sajma took her children to Slovenia. In 1996 Sajma returned to Srebenik with her children.

Behija Hamzić was born in Pljeulju, Montenegro in 1954. She finished elementary school in Montenegro and in 1969 moved with her family to Sarajevo. In 1979 she married her husband and moved to Bijeljina, a town in Northeastern Bosnia, where she lived until 1994. In 1994, Behija and her family were forced to relocate to Tuzla as refugees, where she remains today.

Enisa Nukić (left)
Enisa was born in Bosanski Petrovac (West Bosnia) in 1954, where she finished school. In 1971 she married and moved to Poljice, in Lukavec municipality, where she still lives with her husband.

Enisa has two sons and three grandchildren. One of her sons lives in Austria. 

Read more information by visiting BOSFAM's partner page. BOSFAM's website also has more information about its history, as well as a web shop where you can buy the carpets the weavers make.

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