Elvis Spiodic is an 11-year-old boy who survived the Srebrenica genocide when the Army of Republika Srpska entity murdered over 8,000 Srebrenica citizens, in August 1995. Two decades later, he returned to Srebrenica with several of his peers. They formed an association of concentration camp survivors.

“I am the boy in the photo. The photo was made in August 1995 when we crossed to Tuzla and this photo is of huge significance. I had a cast on my leg and I couldn't leave the lorry that brought me there. Everyone who got off the lorry was killed. That cast had saved my life,” said Elvis Spiodic.

Instead of playing in the playground, several thousand children ended up in the car-battery factory, used as a concentration camp. Eleven-year-old Elvis Spiodic was among them.

Every new arrival to Potocari, a settlement near Srebrenica where the camp was based, opens up old wounds and traumas which marked this man's life.

“When the fall of Srebrenica happened, I was taken to the car-battery factory with my family. I was wounded and I had a cast on my leg. I spent a night there,” Spiodic said. “It was a horrifying night full of terrible scenes. A night I will remember for the rest of my life. Serb soldiers dressed in UN uniforms came, panic arose, women and children started crying.”

The next day, he was separated from his family. He ended up in the notorious lorry with the other wounded inmates. The lorry drove straight to death.

“We were taken to Tuzla but ended up in a settlement near Tuzla, where we were dropped off. Those of us who were able to get off the lorry were all killed. Only one man and I remained in the lorry,” Spiodic adds.

After a total of 15 days, he was taken to Tuzla. Today he considers himself a lucky man because he survived the Srebrenica genocide. He lost his father and numerous friends and distant family in the genocide.