Memory of Trepça
The project “Memory of Trepça: 100 Confessions of the Workers of Trepça” has collected the confessions of 100 different workers of Trepça: miners, engineers, administrators, directors, and various employees in its sectors. These stories were collected through autobiographical interviews conducted by the 7Arte organisation in collaboration with researchers of the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Philology of the University of Pristina. The video recordings will be preserved as evidence of a memory of Trepça that has made the contemporary history of Kosovo. They will be placed in museums, libraries, archives, websites and the transcripts will also be published as a book. In the future, it is also intended to translate them into English.
Why have these life stories of Trepça workers been collected?
Trepça is identified with modern Kosovo, both economically and politically. The stories of the workers of Trepça will monumentalize the untold memory of Trepça, of its miners. The collective memory of economic and industrial life has not been collected enough in Kosovo. These narratives will become one of the rare collections of the memory of industrialization in Kosovo. At the same time, they will also reflect the political, social and psychological memory of life in Kosovo.
Who needs this reminder of Trepça?
Interviews with the workers of Trepça, especially those who remember the time of rapid industrial development, but also the transformation in the managerial structure of Trepça, will be transformed into important documents for historiographical, sociological, anthropological studies and so on. They will become documents of the man of the underground of Kosovo, photographs of the memory of the miners who were the main economic beacons of the time.