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S. Sarić, Destruction of archival records in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Arh. vjesn., god. 42 (1999), str. 223-230 The Archives lost a number of their employees; some left the regions in the war or stayed in the areas from which they could not come to work due to the war actions, while a part of employees left their working posts due to different reasons. Just before the war, the Archives in Bosnia and Herzegovina have had 156 employees, 55 of these were Bachelors, a few were with Ph.D., 12 had diplomas, 5 high skilled labourers, 11 skilled and 15 were with elementary education. The major part of the employees were employed by the home Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina (46). Only 3 of them are presently employed. By the end of 1988 in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Federation and Republika Srpska) 95 persons were employed, 33 of them were Bachelors, 12 had diplomas, 31 with completed Vocational schools, 12 with completed elementary school and 5 skilled labourers. Namely, 40% of the employees have remained after the war, but recently we have reached 70%. However, qualification structure is not so good as it seems from the figures. The Archives succeeded to save and keep the archive documentation during the war despite the shortage of employees; they even organised a few exhibitions participating in numerous cultural performances that took place in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and even abroad ("Days of Bosnia and Herzegovina's culture in Austria" -Vienna) Vjesnik Arhiva i Društva arhivista Bosne i Hercegovine (Gazette of the Archive and the Association of Archivists of Bosnia and Herzegovina), XXXII/1

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1994-95; Vodič Arhiva Bosne i Hercegovine (Guidance of the Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina), 1987; Oslobođenje, 22 and 26 August 1992. Summary DESTRUCTION OF ARCHIVAL RECORDS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Bosnia and Herzegovina has experienced not only the war destruction, but also sudden changes caused by political and economic transitions. The destiny of cultural-historical monuments' and archive materials, during 'the war; has been different. The quantity of archive material; equipment, processing technics and devastated surface areas depended on the territory in which certain facilities of archives or institutions were based. Certainly that facilities and archive materials based in Sarajevo, 229