Some of them took these photographs a hundred days after
the town was conquered (at the end of February and in the early
March 1992.)
J. Zentner made the photographs and gave them away to the
refuges from Vukovar.
Without words, only by picture they show all the horror of
suffering of the town and people in it.
Thanks to all who will show these pictures to their friends
and acquaintances. You can help to make the truth come out of the
ruins to the daylight.
Antonija Kukuljica
What you can see on the photographs are not the remnants of
old Vukovar that existed until recently.
It is now a completly different town.
It is said that every town resembles its inhabitants.
This also referred to Vukovar and it also refers today.
Vukovar was good like its inhabitants, gentle like them,
beautiful like them, lively like them.
And they were the same as Vukovar.
When the war began, those who defended Vukovar the way it was
also defended their resemblance with it. Vukovar was attacked by
the people who claimed that it did not belong to its inhabitants
but to them. So they began to make it look the way they looked.
They began to make their self portrait. When work was finished,
Vukovar did not resemble its inhabitants any more, but those who
had attacked it.
That is why their true inhabitants left it. What you can see
on these photographs very much resembles those who destroyed Vukovar
claiming it belonged to them. You can see how they imagine the place
they would most like to live in. They transformed the old Vukovar
in a completly different one.
But this does not mean that old Vukovar does not exist any more.
It cannot disappear because the people who resembled it are still
alive: they are the picture of Vukovar as Vukovar was the picture
of them.
Pavao Pavlicic