My life
Krinka Vidaković Petrov, Acting Director of the Staro Sajmište Memorial Centre in Belgrade
BE SOFT LIKE COTTON AND SOLID LIKE STEEL The new director of the Staro Sajmište [Old Fairgrounds] Memorial Centre is a professor, scientist and ambassador, whose special interests include Hispanic studies and Judaism. Her father was a respected Yugoslav diplomat, which is how she came to live in Cairo, Chicago and Havana, and it was also thanks to him that she got to meet Che Guevara. Her husband, who died recently, was prominent writer and professor Aleksandar Saša Petrov. Her ancestry encompasses various professions, but they were patriots above all. The life motto of this diligent and competent woman is that it isn’t enough to only look to the future, because that future is unbearably easy and false if the past isn’t incorporated into it. 50
January
