It is also told through significant places, city symbols, and landmarks. However, somehow the most untold stories are through this city's greatest wealth—its people. These are the stories that would make memoirs of Sarajevo endless. Every day anew, they would have a new continuation.
That's why we decided to portray Sarajevo through several people who have a special connection with the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the day Sarajevo celebrates freedom, our interviewees blow out candles and cut cakes. April 6th is a double celebration for them—a birthday and Sarajevo City Day.
"When I walk these streets, I feel like I belong here," a boy named Muhamed Mehmedić tells us at the beginning of the conversation, showing us what children's sincerity means in practice.
This spontaneous but very emotional and sincere statement marks his belonging to Sarajevo, even though he moved with his family kilometers away to Vienna. He tells us that he considers it a modern city, and in Sarajevo, he loves nature and his people.
Ilhana Šabanović is only a few years older, but she is also bound by love for this city. She told us how she has visited other cities but always gladly returns to her home.
"I realized that Sarajevo has so many other things that other cities would like to have but don't, even though they are much more visited and bigger than Sarajevo," she emphasizes.
On the same day, the same year, but in another hospital, her peer Ajna Tičić was born. When asked how she sees the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the next 10 years, she says she expects new buildings and shops, but she likes it just the way it is now.
"On the day I was born, my dad said that I would defend Sarajevo, so that is also special to me," she answers when asked what makes this city different from others for her.
At the beginning of the conversation, Edina Čomor Arnaut conveyed that she is very happy because someone remembered the "April 6th children," as she called all those born on this date.
In her voice and through her words, one cannot help but notice her love for Sarajevo, which is no surprise because she replaced an unfulfilled career as a professor of security and defense with tourism.
Through such tours, she presents all the beauty, history, and values of this city.
"I always remember my 18th birthday. It happened that red chairs were set up for the killed Sarajevo citizens, and I couldn't celebrate my birthday because it was a Day of Mourning, so I postponed it and celebrated a few days later... Sarajevo and I complement and respect each other," Čomor Arnaut told us.
A fan of the football club Željezničar and a student of the Ninth Elementary School, that's how Ammar Žunić described himself, who today turns ten years old.
He tells us that he loves matches he attends with his family, but also, with childlike honesty, admits that we should add love for ćevapi to that list, without which he cannot imagine walks through Baščaršija.
Rijad Mušinović, a student of the First Bosniak Gymnasium, represents students in whose words, through which he speaks about history, the outlines of new generations we will be proud of can already be noticed.
Precisely because, to shape a better future, it is essential to know our past. It seems that new generations know this very well. Perhaps it is time for new stories, some more beautiful and better ones that could start right from Sarajevo.