| 1. | PROLOGUE |
| 2. | BACKGROUND |
| 3. | SURVIVAL MAP |
| 4. | MAPPED SITES |
| 4.1. | Airport |
| 4.2. | Brewery |
| 4.3. | Bridges |
| 4.4. | Cemeteries |
| 4.5. | City Bakery |
| 4.6. | City Hall (National Library) |
| 4.7. | Dangerous Zones |
| 4.8. | Elektroprivreda Building |
| 4.9. | Gardens |
| 4.10. | Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 4.11. | Hospitals |
| 4.12. | Markale Market |
| 4.13. | Markets |
| 4.14. | Maternity Hospital |
| 4.15. | National Museum |
| 4.16. | National Theater |
| 4.17. | Olympic Museum |
| 4.18. | Oslobođenje Building |
| 4.19. | Parks |
| 4.20. | Post Office |
| 4.21. | Presidency Building |
| 4.22. | Protection |
| 4.23. | Radio-Television Building |
| 4.24. | Railway Station |
| 4.25. | Snipers |
| 4.26. | Tobacco Factory |
| 4.27. | Transportation |
| 4.28. | Tunnel |
| 4.29. | UNPROFOR (the United Nations Protection Forces) |
| 4.30. | Zetra Olympic Hall |
| 5. | PERCEPTIONS |
| 6. | MACRO STORIES |
| 7. | REFERENCES |
The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 AHEAD OF FEAR The Art of Survival #2 |
| 1. | PROLOGUE |
| 2. | BACKGROUND |
| 3. | SURVIVAL MAP |
| 4. | MAPPED SITES |
| 4.1. | Airport |
| 4.2. | Brewery |
| 4.3. | Bridges |
| 4.4. | Cemeteries |
| 4.5. | City Bakery |
| 4.6. | City Hall (National Library) |
| 4.7. | Dangerous Zones |
| 4.8. | Elektroprivreda Building |
| 4.9. | Gardens |
| 4.10. | Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 4.11. | Hospitals |
| 4.12. | Markale Market |
| 4.13. | Markets |
| 4.14. | Maternity Hospital |
| 4.15. | National Museum |
| 4.16. | National Theater |
| 4.17. | Olympic Museum |
| 4.18. | Oslobođenje Building |
| 4.19. | Parks |
| 4.20. | Post Office |
| 4.21. | Presidency Building |
| 4.22. | Protection |
| 4.23. | Radio-Television Building |
| 4.24. | Railway Station |
| 4.25. | Snipers |
| 4.26. | Tobacco Factory |
| 4.27. | Transportation |
| 4.28. | Tunnel |
| 4.29. | UNPROFOR (the United Nations Protection Forces) |
| 4.30. | Zetra Olympic Hall |
| 5. | PERCEPTIONS |
| 6. | MACRO STORIES |
| 7. | REFERENCES |
The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 AHEAD OF FEAR The Art of Survival #2 |
4.30.
Zetra Olympic Hall
"Good bye, dear Sarajevo."
The “Zetra” sports hall was the place where the Winter Olympic Games were closed. Before the siege it was the venue for hockey games, skating championships and concerts. Although it had not been built of flammable material after innumerable hits from the surrounding hills it became engulfed in flames which melted its copper roof. The photo of “Zetra” in flames greatly saddened the President of the Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, who had closed the Winter Olympic Games by saying: “Good bye, dear Sarajevo”. The “Zetra” basement was used as a shelter and the storage space of many humanitarian organizations.
© FAMA Collection Visual Archives, Drago Resner
Sarajevo citizens: In their own words
“We had been ready expecting something like that. We had the hydrants and the extinguishers distributed around, but at the time when ‘Zetra’ was burning there was no water in Sarajevo.”
- Enes Terzić, Director of the “Zetra” Sports Centre
“I had the honour personally to take Mr Samaranch to the balcony from which in 1984, from where 10 years earlier he had closed the Olympic Games in Sarajevo with the well-known words ‘Goodbye dear Sarajevo’. This time I got the impression that he was unable to say a single word, they stuck in his throat when he saw the ruin and destruction of ‘Zetra’ where the UNPROFOR troops had been was wrecked, water, snow, rain.”
- Izudin Filipović, Director of the BH Olympic Committee
“They dismantled all the parts of the cable-car station and all the ski lifts. And in the hotels they even took the switches. When leaving the sporting facilities and the mountains Igman and Bjelašnica ski centres, they burnt and blew up everything.”
- Enes Terzić, Director of the “Zetra” Sports Centre
Video Oral History: The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 (© FAMA Collection, 1997-99.)