Válka v Chorvatsku očima dětí. Kvalitativní analýza dětského časopisu Náš koutek z let 1991-1993

This study reflects on the historical experience of the war in Croatia in the beginning of the 1990s through the eyes of children, using a qualitative analysis of their contributions published in the contemporary periodical Náš koutek in the years 1991–1993. The oldest children’s magazine published in the territory of the former Yugoslavia by Czech compatriots in the Czech language became a unique historical source that mediated testimonies about the horrors of war authentically and directly. More than a thousand children from the Daruvar area were separated from their parents and evacuated to accommodation facilities in the Czech Republic, where they remained for a period of nearly five months, and this influenced a significant percent of their contributions. On the basis of analysis of the children’s contributions, it was determined that their experiences from the war can be named through categories of emotions such as fear, love, longing, hope, and pain, which relate to the central phenomenon of change that took place in many aspects of their lives because of the war.