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DERVISEFENDIC HOUSEWIFE "A SYRINGE BRINGS LIGHT" We were having beans for lunch. And since there was too much fat, we were thinking, "what'll we do now?" We don't have any more oil to burn. We don't have anything. Then it dawned on us that we could skim off the fat and use that. So we put the fat in a bowl and put a string in it to be used as a wick. It burned so beautifully that we couldn't believe it. My husband had a syringe, he had some sort of plastic tube, I guess. And when we got some more heating oil again, we would dip the tube in the oil, and with the help of the syringe we were able to use it. ZIBA HADZIHALILOVIC CITIZEN "ADVICE FOR SURVIVAL" As far as light was concerned, that was the most difficult, it seems to me. There was practically no light day and night. In the day the windows were closed with sheets of plastic, because all of the windows had been shattered. At night it was as dark as - we had to spend a thousand and I-don't-know-how-many nights in the dark. But we managed in a pretty intelligent way. We had no candles or lamps, so we took some of the oil that we had for food, and put it in little pots, and out of those we made little oil lamps by adding a wick made of a cork with some string pulled through it. And that's how we lit the apartment. Not having light was one of the difficult things because on most days from '92 to '94 we often had to go into the shelter. Down there it was very dark and damp, and then you go back into your apartment, and there's no light. Therefore, light was one of the important factors. Winter came. It was the first winter of the war. Back to Top |
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