Welcome Nevena Bajalica, Fortunoff Fellow

Please join us in welcoming Nevena Bajalica, as a Fortunoff Fellow, thanks to funding from the Claims Conference.

Bajalica is a researcher, educator, and project manager specializing in Holocaust education, human rights, and combating antisemitism and other forms of discrimination. She is the co-founder and program manager at Terraforming, an organization based in Novi Sad, Serbia dedicated to fostering Holocaust remembrance and improving teaching and learning about the Holocaust through innovative educational initiatives. Since 2011, Nevena has been a member of the national delegation of the Republic of Serbia to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). She previously coordinated projects for the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, focusing on Holocaust education in the Western Balkans, and worked on international development initiatives with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her research background includes contributions to the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), where she worked as a regional expert and author of the official independent historical report Srebrenica - A 'Safe' Area, commissioned by the Dutch government to reconstruct and describe events before, during, and after the fall of the UN enclave Srebrenica in the former Yugoslavia.

As Fortunoff Fellow, Bajalica will produce an annotated critical edition of a testimony for our as part of our Claims Conference Grant Unlocking Survivor Testimony: A Program to Produce Critical Annotated Editions of Non-English Holocaust Testimonies.