In 1992,  during the Balkans War, the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in Sarajevo, was targeted and intentionally set on fire. It was burning during several days. As thousands of books were reduced to ashes, millions of written words in small pieces of paper were floating through the hellish air that covered the streets of the city. According to the

locals, they looked like “black butterflies”.

Every 24th of October, the International Day of Libraries commemorates this tragic loss for the cultural and intellectual heritage of the country.

Our students have paid homage to this cultural genocide filling the walls and doors of our school with black butterflies.