Reflections on the project HiperCatalunya (2003)

Life Writing between Fact and Fiction: Croatian World War II Women Diarists

“…7 The notorious title of Juhn's diary, 'The Black Notebook', spurred my interest as the text was typewritten with notes added by hand, presumably more than fifty years ago, but left unpublished. 8 With Bulić's diary kept out of the reach of readers for 5 When quoting Lujza Wagner's war diary in this article I use the published version (GRKOVIĆ JANOVIĆ 2008). For quotes from the diaries of Vinka Bulić and Ina Juhn, I use their surnames to signal that the excerpts are from the manuscripts/primary sources (BULIĆ and JUHN).…”

“…Wagner went as far as burying it behind her house. 30 The war also put significant pressure on family dynamics, whether people were separated or stayed together. Vera Ehrlich was, according to her sister's interpretation preserved in her diary, far too intellectual for the modest and uneducated Partisans on the Dalmatian islands.…”