Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood

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Logavina Street is a six-block-long history lesson. To know Logavina Street is to know Sarajevo, to understand what this city was and what it has become. To know Logavina is to witness the strength and ingenuity that ordinary people can muster when they need to in order to survive.

Here, as elsewhere, the war had turned everything upside down. It had turned rich men into paupers, even light into darkness.

Before the war, residents of Logavina Street looked forward to clear, bright days to stroll downtown. Now they waited for fog and rain, which obscured them from the sniper's view. Before the war, the best homes on Logavina faced south and offered unobstructed views of lovely Trebevic, site of the toboggan and bobsled competitions in the 1984 Winter Olympics. Now, the mountain and former ski chalets were occupied by Bosnian Serbs, their big artillery guns pointing towards Sarajevo.