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Happy New Year!

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May the year ahead take you on an exciting new adventure, complete with life-changing experiences and deeper friendships. ~Sanela

Snuggle up with a cozy winter read. Remember Me and Haunting from the Past are available wherever books are sold.

Happy New 2022!

SRETNA NOVA GODINA!

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Merry Christmas!

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“A little smile, a word of cheer, a bit of love from someone near, a little gift from one held dear, best wishes for the coming year!” 

May the calories of the holidays disappear by New Year! 

Merry Christmas!

“Ms. Jurich is a master story teller with a historically important background that must be read in its entirety to be appreciated.” – iSTAR

Read

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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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