ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a theoretical overview of collective memories, social reconstruction of the past, formation of dangerous memories and their transgenerational transmission. It explores the empirical research on collective memories of several war events among two generational groups of Sarajevans and East Sarajevans. Sarajevo and East Sarajevo belong to two different entities: the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Srpska, and inhabitants of the two cities were on opposite sides during the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Transmission of different chosen traumas and difficult memories is still taking place in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe argued for the temporary suspension of teaching of the 1992–1995 period until historians in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the support of international experts, establish a common approach to the study of the period in schools. The analysis implies why school was mentioned as a source of information about the war only once.
