11 Voices of Srebrenica

Camp Vught National Memorial

26 June 2025 - 26 October 2025

Over 62,000 Bosnian-Dutch live in the Netherlands. Thirty years after the genocide in Srebrenica, their stories are still hardly heard. How do you live on with war trauma, in a society that does not know your story, does not understand or perhaps does not even want to see it? And what can we learn from these people if we listen to them?

The 11 Voices of Srebrenica is a multimedia project that places the stories of Bosnian Dutch people and their experiences of the Srebrenica genocide at its centre through a podcast.

Photographer Robin de Puy created a visual counterpart to the podcast through photography and film, portraying the people behind these stories. The exhibition brings together portraits, photographs, and video footage from Bosnia and Herzegovina, alongside short documentaries. Together, these layered narratives explore the lives of Bosnian Dutch people, tracing their experiences from the past to the present. A selection of this work was also published weekly in de Volkskrant.

HyperFocal: 0 — A house in Srebrenica, riddled with bullets. Thirty years later, the destruction of the village is still clearly visible.

July 11, 2025 commemorates 30 years since the Bosnian Serb army took the UN safe area of Srebrenica and committed genocide. 8372 men and boys were killed, tens of thousands deported. The city was under siege for years, shelled and starved. The genocide in Srebrenica is considered the largest war crime on European soil since World War II.

“For this series I dive deep into the memories of those portrayed and try to make connections between the past and the present. It is not a far- from home issue and the urgency is high. We need to learn from history. After all, our present is shaped by understanding our past.” – Robin de Puy