Senada adzem biography

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  In her exclusive interview featured in the February issue of Boca Raton, the director of luxury sales at Douglas Elliman opens up about living as a teenager in war-torn Sarajevo as a young teen. Here are bonus excerpts from our “Behind the Biz” story:

  Editor’s note: Adžem was born in Goražde, in what was then Yugoslavia, and later moved to Croatia. But when war broke out there in 1991, her parents moved the family to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina—which had declared independence from Yugoslavia. In April 1992, the Army of Republika Srpska (comprised of Bosnian Serbs trying to create a new state) encircled and blockaded the city, the start of an almost four-year siege that would claim, by some estimates, nearly 6,000 civilian lives—and wreak untold psychological havoc.

  • “I remember my father coming home one evening with a busload of people. We had a big home. They were refugees; their homes had been taken away. There was shooting in the background. You couldn’t make sense of it; why would your own army turn on you? It would be the equivalent of the U.S. Army attacking its own citizens. There was such confusion.”

  • “Your first instinct is to leave. Where do we have family? Austria? Italy? America? You start packing the basics and planning an escape.

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Surviving Sarajevo
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