Plaque, National and University Library, Sarajevo

Plaque at the entrance to the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, commemorating the fire in 1992 during the Siege of Sarajevo in the Yugoslav War, when the building and over 2 million books and documents were damaged or destroyed, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This national library, designed in 1891 by the Czech architect Karel Parik as the City Hall, reopened as a library in 2014. This building, on the banks of the Miljacka river, is from the Austro-Hungarian period of the city. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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