
tourism is one of croatia´s greatest assets of his developing economy. visitors do have the impression, that responsible institutions are trying hard, often too hard to attract a steady stream of tourists. whereas the croatian coast is a clear cut issue, provincial cities like zagreb do not have too much to offer in the framework of modern tourism industrie. nevertheless, sauseschritt always brings back a pile of brochures, cd roms and red hearts made of wood: souveniers of the local tourist board. especially the wooden hearts are of exceptional uggliness but do go back to an old custom also known well in germany and austria.
inyourpocket.com explains:
licitarsko srce: these small cakes are traditionally made from honey dough or gingerbread, although try eating one of those that you find displayed in shop windows all over zagreb and indigestion is the likely result rather than the happy love life that is actually the point. shaped as a bright heart and decorated with white framing lines, flowers and mirrors, licitarsko srce have long been offered as love tokens to the object of affection. these days they are adorned with imaginative slogans such as "zagreb" and lie wait to reveal to you the love the locals have for the contents of your wallet.


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the croatian fascination with graffiti finds its public wall of appreciation on this city street just east of glavni kolodvor. a few hundred metres of wall is covered with various images, from human faces to poetry focused on four-letter words. the city actually has local artists update the colourful work of many messages every few years or so. beautiful, bizarre, creative, sometimes crude and very interesting,
writes inyourpocket.com in its zagreb edition.

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children react in a different way than grown-up people. i was wandering for three years. there was no peace. the peasants, if they knew I was jewish, they would have probably killed me. so I had to be very alert, very careful, explains the jewish autor aharon appelfeld in an interview with the boston review when asked by anne person about his terrifying time as a young boy trying to escape the nazi terror.

schon mehrmals wurde in der literatur insbesondere in diesem jahr darauf hingewiesen, daß mit dem aussterben der zeitzeugen des holocaust nunmehr auch die wahrheit darüber auf dem prüfstand stehen könnte. was bleibt sind jene, die ihre kindheit in den konzentrationslagern verbracht hatten und die als zeugen ihrer zeit nie ganz ernst genommen worden waren. der 1932 geborene israelische schriftsteller



the international jury of the 48th annual world press photo contest selected a color image of the Indian photographer arko datta of reuters as world press photo of the year 2004. the picture shows an indian woman mourning the death of a relative who was killed in the asian tsunami catastrophe:


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