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Article: Refugees in Sarajevo are glad to have the shelter of the old orphanage. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 29, 1994
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina _ It is a place bleaker than anything out of a Dickens novel.
The walls, painted institutional green, seem to hold a century of dankness, cold and misery. So little daylight penetrates into the constantly flooded hallways that you cannot find a room without a flashlight _ not that anyone here could afford one.
The building at 90 Logavina St. was constructed as an orphanage in the 1890s, and later housed refugees from both world wars. It was briefly a jail. Many Logavina residents consider the building cursed with bad karma and avoid going near it.
But it is a welcome sanctuary for more than 50 refugees who escaped from conditions so ...
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