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Many people have been asking me how I found the courage to share my story. I am not courageous in any way. I had to heal a little before I could talk about this event. Trauma is very personal. I did not even know that I was traumatized. I just could NOT talk about the war.
Writing everthing down helps me a lot. As a child I had no one to talk to about my experiences in Srebrenica. I was 7 years old when we arrived in Vienna in August 1995. In september I started grade school. My parents, my brother and I had to get used to living together again.
My father was mostly a stranger to us. We knew him only from photographs. My mother, like me, was severely traumatized. In Austria we had to live like nothing ever happend. We were still afraid. Afraid that the Austrian government would send us back to Srebrenica.
