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Bosnia is the back drop to this fascinating insight into a twenty
year search to uncover the true identity of a man displaced from
his country and loved ones. Genealogy today is big business.
Websites now offer their services to uncover the truth about our
heritage. Lost royal bloodlines can be uncovered at the click of
the mouse. Family tragedies of old can be revisited once more,
memories cherished at last forever. Imagine however if no records
of our existence remained. DISPLACED tells of such a search of no
recordable beginning. The story strives to uncover the shrouded
blanket, kept in secret for over sixty years, of my own
grandfather's life before his appearance in England in 1947.
Yugoslavia's bloody and violent times of her past are revisited
within my own travels of modern day quest of understanding.
The following pages give an account of a twenty year search to
uncover the mystery that had surrounded grandfather for the
entirety of his life that he had spent living in the United
Kingdom. All that was ever known of him were the basic facts that
he was Serbian by nationality (although I was later to discover
that he in fact lived in Bosnia) and that he was never to return to
his native homeland again. The book is like that of a split
personality, two sides that would never see the other until the
final chapters were acknowledged, recorded and written together. It
describes my own early recollections of the man and the time I
would spend in his presence throughout childhood and teenage years
until his death in 1988. The other persona tells of the other side
that was left behind in Bosnia. The happiness, ever wandering, the
horrors and finally, as the first one is uncovered, the
understanding and joining together of both as finally one. The
search would be a relentless task searching for a man that had no
records of his existence prior to his displacement in 1946.
Searching a country whose own bloodlust and carnage has seen whole
generations of people and records of them disappear forever. A
country whose varied people are so secretive in their own right and
often hide their own pasts with a passion.
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