Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times Highlight

When I asked Wendy whether she had spoken much to him about the war, she shook her head. “Ognjen is a child, and I don’t want him to know too much about ugly things. He knows some basic things and this is enough.” What about his identity, I asked—in a town where children were sent to school in shifts segregated by ethnicity, how did he think of himself? She seemed taken aback by the question. “I am a Croat,” she said after a pause. “But I am not some orthodox Croat. I am a normal person, and I have my family, and I don’t care about Croats and Serbs.”