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   Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.

Escaping into a book is the easiest way to entertain one self. 

“Remember Me is a thought-provoking novel about a dark time in recent history. Unforgettable!” ~Readers’ Favorite

Follow Selma’s journey through love, despair, hope, and peace in author Sanela Jurich’s Remember Me. Experience the brutality of the Bosnian Genocide, but see how God’s hand restores Selma’s life tenfold. Understand the courage it takes to face your attackers and relive the pain in the name of justice. Discover whether love can blossom from beneath the rubble of war.

“When I was fifteen years old, my whole life changed in a blink of an eye…”
Sanela Ramic Jurich is an author and a public speaker. Born in Prijedor, Bosnia in 1976, she was fifteen years old when the war first started. Her books, Remember Me and Haunting from the Past were based on her own memories of that war. She now lives in Chicago with her sons.

Merry Christmas

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You make the stars shine brighter and the winter days warmer just by being in my life. Merry Christmas to my favorite people in the world – readers, reviewers, supporters. For your Christmas time, I wish you many blessings, much happiness, and even more love.

“When I was fifteen years old, my whole life changed in a blink of an eye…”
Sanela Ramic Jurich is an author and a public speaker. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two sons.

Seven year book-anniversary!

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By: Sanela

 

Displayed at Piccolo restaurant in Chicago

Today marks seven years since the release of my first novel, Remember Me (Sjeti me se). It was the proudest day of my life; I wrote a book about the hardest time of my existence; time that I would rather forget, but I dug deep, found the courage, and put it all on paper. Now I know that as long as my books are out there–and books are forever–what happened in Prijedor back in 1992, is not going to be forgotten and to me, that fact, is the biggest accomplishment of my life. I did not forget! 
All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn’t make it out. I wanted to bring them back to life and so, I wrote a book about them. 
My book, Remeber Me (Sjeti me se) can be purchased in both English and Bosnian anywhere books are sold. 

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Ratko Mladic guilty of genocide, sentenced to life in prison

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By James Masters, CNN

Wed., November 22, 2017

(CNN) – Former Bosnian Serb army leader Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after being found guilty of genocide for atrocities committed during the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995.

Mladic was charged with two counts of genocide and nine crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1995, during which 100,000 people were killed and another 2.2 million displaced. He was found not guilty on one charge of genocide, but received a guilty verdict on each of the other 10 counts.

The trial, which opened in 2012, took place at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. The ad hoc court was established to prosecute crimes committed during the Balkans conflict.
Mladic was accused of orchestrating a campaign of ethnic cleansing, including the slaughter of thousands of Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995. It is the worst massacre to have taken place in Europe since the Second World War.
 

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“Unforgettable!”

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BOOK REVIEW

Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers’ Favorite

Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers’ Favorite

“Remember Me is a thought-provoking novel about a dark time in recent history. The characters of Selma, her parents, grandparents, neighbors and friends who lost a lovely way of life are well-created and believable. The reader will agonize over the way innocent people were killed, their homes destroyed, their surviving families get grief-stricken but somehow carry on. That Selma survives and goes on to regain her life is a tribute in novel form to a people who survived against all odds. “Sjeti Me Se”, Johnny’s last words to Selma, is a novel that should be widely read and remembered. Unforgettable!” ~Readers’ Favorite 
https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/remember-me/1

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

 

Author Sanela Ramic Jurich was born in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1976. She moved to the United States of America in 1993. Remember Me was Sanela’s first novel. 

I used to call it Home

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By Sanela (August 10, 2017) 

Vuka Karadžića 23, Prijedor, Bosnia 

Today marks exactly 24 years since I moved to America. Although the circumstances under which I had to move were unbearably painful, I can’t help but feel fortunate and incredibly lucky to be given such a privilege – a second chance at life. Chicago is and forever will be my home, however, I’ve been feeling so nostalgic today; memory after memory to the point of feeling sick to my stomach. I had to go there even if only via Google Earth. And I found it – home. One of only two buildings there that haven’t been renovated; our and Johnny’s grandmother’s building across the street. I’m so glad they still look the same as they did back then. — feeling emotional.  Continue reading →