Wall of Pain - Zid boli

Wall of Truth about Martyrdom of Croatian People - The Voice of Croatian Victims

Zid istine o stradanju hrvatskog naroda - Glas hrvatske zrtve

The Wall of Pain (Zid boli) in Zagreb is a memorial for all Croatians who were killed or disappeared during the Greater-Serbian aggression on Croatia (1990-1995). It was built in 1993 by mothers and relatives of killed and missing soldiers and civilians upon the initiative of Mrs Zdenka Farkas, and placed around the building where UN Peace Mission to Croatia had its headquarters. It has been built as an appeal for humanity and human rigts addressed to the UN. Croatia was in flame at that time, many towns under siege and fierce bombarding from earth and air.

The Wall of Pain consists of 13,650 red and black bricks.
Relatives wrote the names of missing people on the red ones,
the black ones symbolise the deads.

Each brick symbolizes one tragic story, one life that ended brutally
during the aggression on Croatia.

The bricks were moved to the Zagreb cemetery in 2005,
which caused many protests in Croatia.

Photos and text based on Virtualtourist

Photo by Julija Vojkovic

The wall dissappeared on November 5th, 2005, early in the morning at 5.30 AM, when it was ruined in complete secrecy, the bricks being moved to the Zagreb cemetery.

Photo from Portal hrvatskog kulturnog vijeca

Thousands of Croats of all generations have among their closest relatives many of those with unknown destiny. This can especially be seen during the All Saints Day.

On the All Saints Day (Dusni dan), 2006 (photo by D.Z.)

Some of the victims whose names appear on bricks in the Wall of Pain:

Prepared by Darko Zubrinic in 2006. I express my deep gratitude to Mrs. Zdenka Farkas for kind help.

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