In order to understand the reasons and extent of the evil that Greater Serbia committed against the heroic Cro-
atian city of Vukovar and the whole of Croatia, we must repeat constantly, corroborate credibly, read hermeu-
tically, and interpret artistically the historical facts in the name of truth. Contributing to this task is the latest
bilingual book, The Resurrected Faces of Vukovar 1991 – 2021 Julienne Eden Bušić, a permanent resident of the
Republic of Croatia – her second beloved homeland. As a translator, senior advisor in the Office of the Presi-
dent of the Republic of Croatia (1995 – 2000) and a writer, she conceived the book in two parts, based on genre.
The historical Vukovar remembrance of foreign policy commentator and Vukovar native, Tihomir Vinković,
then a selection of the author’s 1998 reports on identified mass graves on behalf of the Commission for War
Victims and Missing Persons (…) as well as the shocking chapter War in Vukovar by historian Ivo Lučić and the
academic paper, The Suffering and Resurrection of Raped Vukovar Detainees 1991 –1992: Does Postmodern
Culture Tolerate Suffering? in the light of reflections on the first European postmodern genocide in Croatia
and the attitude towards the suffering of Vukovar detainees, which was presented by Croatian professor Sanja
Knežević at the Eighth Regional Conference of the European Association of Women in Theological Research
2012 in Split, as well as the discussion, A Brief Review of the Disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Battle of Vu-
kovar by historian Ante Nazor – are all imbued with exceptional artistic contributions; for example, patriotic
verse, Who are those who go against tanks? from a published poem dedicated to Vukovar by the Croatian poet
Tomislav Marijan Bilosnić, with a moving excerpt from the author’s award-winning novel Živa glava / Living
Cells inspired by the testimony of a young Croatian woman who was sexually and serially abused at the begin-
ning of the Greater Serbia occupation in Vukovar, and the author’s moving story, The Ring about the marriage
of the daughter of a widowed rape victim, and then with an intimate story, My father, an Orthodox priest…
about war heroism in the defense of the homeland of the highly-decorated Croatian defender, Nenad Gagić,
who is an ethnic Serb, and finally with reproductions of paintings and statements by Austrian artist Hermann
Pedit (1933 – 2014) who was present at the Vukovar exhumation of victims in 1998 and then, at his “Night of the
Soul” exhibition at the Mimara Museum, which opened on September 16, 1999 with a meticulous review, Dark
Body, by Academic Tonko Maroević, presented his opus dedicated to the Serbian war victims (…)
dr. sc. Lidija Bajuk