#Rebuilding Memory

May 19, 2025 Announcement

 Open Call for Workshop History Lessons

Jan 22, 2024 Rebuilding memory

Tea bushes

Jan 17, 2024 Rebuilding memory

One suitcase

Jan 15, 2024 Rebuilding memory

I am from Abkhazia, born in Tbilisi

Jan 10, 2024 Rebuilding memory

Arches of fire and then Psou

Nov 29, 2023 Rebuilding memory

Nineteen in one | Seymour, 68 years old, a soldier in the Abkhaz war

Nov 26, 2023 Rebuilding memory

"The war must stop" | Irakli, 55 years old, a warrior, in the war in Abkhazia

Nov 19, 2023 Rebuilding memory

Tailor and chocolates | Pepela Iashvili, 85 years old

Oct 05, 2023 Rebuilding memory

One dough ball

Sep 27, 2023 Rebuilding memory

Bandits and a meeting in the mountains

Sep 21, 2023 Rebuilding memory

A year under siege

Sep 12, 2023 Rebuilding memory

Knocking in the days of war

Jul 25, 2022 Meeting

rebuilding memory | Workshops in regions

Nov 29, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Zurab | Zoya, 55, Tskhinvali

Nov 12, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Suliko | Dmenisi, South Ossetia

Oct 28, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Ribs and teeth | Manana Sarauli, Mejvriskhevi

Oct 24, 2021 Meeting

Meeting along

Oct 21, 2021 Rebuilding memory

The old hunter | Mamuka Lomidze, Mkhedrioni

Oct 19, 2021 Conflict

Perceptions of Georgian and Ossetian Youth and Their Memories of the Conflict

Oct 15, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Medications, Blood Pressure Monitor, Adiela | Manana Sarauli, Mejvriskhevi

Oct 11, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Bus driver | Sergo from Mejvriskhevi

Oct 05, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Melko | Sergo, Mejvriskhevi

Sep 30, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Mejvriskhevi | Manana Sarauli

Sep 28, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Revive Memory | History lesson

Sep 28, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Old Piano

Sep 08, 2021 Announcement

open call for workshop - rebuilding memory

Aug 08, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Rebuilding Memory | Nino Lomadze

Aug 07, 2021 Rebuilding memory

A house left in a dream | Anna Dziapshipa

The Kobaladze family left Tskhinvali during the 1991 war. Their big house stayed there, too.

Aug 07, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Temporary address | Natia Sharmiashvili

Aug 06, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Here and there | Mano Svanidze

These unsorted fragments are recordings of conversations with children and young from the Tserovni IDP settlement.

Aug 01, 2021 Meeting

Rebuilding Memory | Screening of video projects

Jul 22, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Good Root Neighbors | Nukri Javakhishvili, Ksuisi

My worst memories are of when we had to go to the neighboring village to sleep at night. It was especially hard because it was winter

Jul 21, 2021 Rebuilding memory

old good friend | Inali From Tskhinval

I am from the village Otrevi. I was already living in Tskhinvali from the beginning of the 90s. My parents were in the village.

Jul 19, 2021 Rebuilding memory

White Cloth (Brassard) | Aslan, Tskhinval

The first time I processed that the war had started was on 5th of August. I was standing in the yard with my friends.

Jul 19, 2021 Rebuilding memory

He, Bulletridden | Aza 68

Нæмыджы фæдтæ цы хъуамæ фæуыдаиккой? Хæдзар сцалцæг кодтам æмæ сæ фæдтæ къултыл дæр æмæ рудзгуытыл дæр нал зыныныц. Гуырдзиæгтæ мидæмæ гом дуарæй æхстой.

Jul 19, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Blisters | Natasha Dzajaeva, from Tskhinval

On the morning of the 8th of August, after the heavy firings the whole night, I ran to my neighbor to see how they were doing.

Jul 16, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Spartaki | Temur, from Tskhinval

But I still can’t understand why they wanted that war.

Jul 16, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Promise | Marina, Tbilisi

Jul 06, 2021 Rebuilding memory

I sat in my empty house and started to cry | Elene Kharauli

We don’t mean anyone any harm, we were born with Ossetians, we were raised with Ossetians, we said. It was exactly so, we got along great before that.

Jul 05, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Truck | Irina, Vladikavkaz, 40

Suddenly, just as the truck was taking a sharp turn, there was gunfire. People didn’t even have time to scream let alone escape.

Jul 03, 2021 Rebuilding memory

The Phone | Vladimer, Tskhinvali

I replay this often, that she calls her son and someone picks up the phone there and tells her he is dead.

Jul 02, 2021 Rebuilding memory

NIVA | Nunu Trapaidze-Begiashvili, from Tskhinvali

This distinction between Ossetian and Georgian didn't exist before, then what happened, I don’t know

Jul 01, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Two troupes in one theater | Maka Geladze

Georgian police were already in Tskhinvali, separately Georgian and Ossetian nationalist leaders were agitating people. 

Jun 28, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Cursed Affair | Tamar Kobaladze, Tskhinvali

It’s a cursed affair to fight over land. Because that’s not what our end is, we won’t leave this earth with more than two meters anyway. 

Jun 28, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Squadron Commander | Gela Atakishvili, war veteran

Jun 25, 2021 Rebuilding memory

War Lessons | Temur Kokoity, Tskhinvali

The first time I was ever afraid was when I was 5 years old. It was the 23rd of November, 1989.

Jun 24, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Two Machine Guns | Vladimer Dzutsovi, Tskhinvali

War started for me when Zviad came to power. Many here swore that war was out of the question, Soviet Union would never allow that. 

Jun 22, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Akaki | Fenia Siukaeva, Prisi

Our village was burned the first time on the 12th of May in 1992. We were making Chacha in the yard.

Jun 18, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Pines and Fir in Gujarati | Luba Gogichashvili

Now my heart aches when my husband tells the story, I yell at him. Don’t remind me of that time, I tell him. What’s it all for?

Jun 18, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Two "teams"

Jun 17, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Wedding Dress | Elina Gabaraeva, Tskhinval

On the 7th of August, half an hour before midnight, the gunfire began. We jumped out of bed, my mother didn’t even know what was happening.

Jun 14, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Bus Stop | Iuza Siukaeva, Znauri

The corpse was washed  up by the river Representatives of the police and representatives of the prosecutor's office also went to examine it.

Jun 08, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Dreams | Alika, Tskhinval [ENG]

This slogan left the most bitter impression on me: Curse the woman who carries an Ossetian in her womb

Jun 08, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Pride of the country | Babo Khatashvili

They shot him and killed him right then and there. That kind of boy, some would say, what kind of mother had raised him?

Jun 01, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Basmach | Koba, Tskhinval

As we were firing farewell shots for him, we could hear a sound on the other side, someone else was firing with us from Georgia

May 27, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Scroll | Ana Jebisashvili, from Znauri

May God protect everyone from the pain I experienced then. I ran off.  In front of the school, a sulfur spring was flowing.

May 21, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Shovel | Khvicha Nadiradze, Znauri district, village Alibari

My mother was Ossetian, and they were cursing her, how could you raise Georgian kids, they said. What am I supposed to do?

May 20, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Haystack | Marina Znanova, Ksuisi

I didn’t change my name or anything at all. You should be what you are. 

May 18, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Bread and Cookies

Georgians aren't liked in South Ossetia today. Were it not for the second war, the generation would have been replaced and there would have been peace.

May 13, 2021 Rebuilding memory

War Daires | Beso Doiashvili | 1991, Tskhinvali

Like I’ve been saying, I have everything written down. When I went there, some people were writing things down, so on one mission, I started too

May 10, 2021 Rebuilding memory

candies, cluster bomb and niche | Mari, 20

Mar 29, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Sandro | Robert Mamisashvili, from Tskhinvali

Mar 06, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Mayzer | War Veteran, Tbilisi

What could I do?ǃ I came back and returned to work. Then I served for twenty years, I participated in every battle. Wherever a bullet fell, I was there.

Feb 27, 2021 Rebuilding memory

Rifles | Robert Mamisashvili, from Tskhinvali

Can you imagine, independence was declared and none of the political leaders had political experienceǃ  That was the cause of all this.

Dec 08, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Rebuilding Memory | Nino lomadze

Dec 05, 2020 Video Story

Two decades before the August war

Dec 03, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Two Machine Guns | Vladimer Dzutsovi, Tskhinvali [ENG]

War started for me when Zviad came to power. Many here swore that war was out of the question, Soviet Union would never allow that. 

Dec 01, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Good Root Neighbors |Nukri Javakhishvili, Ksuisi [ENG]

My worst memories are of when we had to go to the neighboring village to sleep at night. It was especially hard because it was winter

Nov 30, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Head of the village | Babo, Elbakiaantkari [ENG/RUS]

The kids stayed behind, they gave me apartments, and I left them all. All five of them. They didn't want to so they didn’t come.

Nov 30, 2020 Rebuilding memory

One Out of Three | Tamaz Panchulidze, Member of Mkhedrioni [ENG/RUS]

That's where I met Mr, Jaba Ioseliani. He was a regular man. It’s a pleasure to have you part of our group, he said. At first, there were 50 of us.

Nov 29, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Mustache | Anna Medova, Tskhinvali [Eng/Rus]

Before getting out of my father's car, I broke off a small part of the car, for some reason I really wanted to leave a keepsake. 

Nov 27, 2020 Rebuilding memory

The Wake | Vepkhia, Khurvaleti [ENG/RUS]

Then one period they really attacked us. That was later, after 2008.

Nov 24, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Haystack | Marina Znanova, Ksuisi [ENG]

I didn’t change my name or anything at all. You should be what you are. 

Nov 22, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Backers | Marina, Khurvaleti [ENG/RUS]

They would storm in homes. Some were kidnapped. The things they did!

Nov 19, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Daughter of an Ossetian Mother | Marina, Tskhinvali

It all started for me with Adamon Nykhas meetings. I never missed it.

Nov 18, 2020 Rebuilding memory

old good frined | Inal From Tskhinval [Eng]

I am from the village Otrevi. I was already living in Tskhinval from the beginning of the 90s. My parents were in the village.

Nov 18, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Mousy-Mouse | Nona Melanashvili, from Kekhvi [ENG/RUS]

We spent our childhood in war and battle fronts.

Nov 09, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Candles | Mzia Chovelidze, Akhali Khurvaleti [ENG/RUS]

There’s no house, no land, my son is dead, I’ve got only his grave there.

Nov 07, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Sign /map | Gocha, from Ksuisi [Eng/Rus]

The entire night, the Ossetians scorched us, didn’t have any mercy on us. I was on the front lines.

Nov 06, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Bus Stop | Iuza Siukaeva, Znaur [Eng]

The corpse was washed  up by the river Representatives of the police and representatives of the prosecutor's office also went to examine it.

Nov 05, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Hill | Roin Okropiridze, Disevi [ENG/RUS]

I hoped to return, but who will let you go back in? My house is no longer alive.

Nov 02, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Spartaki | Temur, from Tskhinvali [ENG]

But I still can’t understand why they wanted that war.

Nov 01, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Cursed Affair | Tamar Kobaladze, Tskhinvali [ENG]

It’s a cursed affair to fight over land. Because that’s not what our end is, we won’t leave this earth with more than two meters anyway. 

Oct 29, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Scroll | Ana Jebisashvili, from Znauri [ENG/RUS]

May God protect everyone from the pain I experienced then. I ran off.  In front of the school, a sulfur spring was flowing.

Oct 26, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Akaki | Fenia Siukaeva, Pris [ENG]

Our village was burned the first time on the 12th of May in 1992. We were making Chacha in the yard.

Oct 24, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Autumn Lilacs | Ella, Tskhinval [ENG]

On the 6th of August, we were at the cafe, Farn, in the city center. Who would’ve thought that a bomb would fall out of the sky and hit the cafe in two days?

Oct 22, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Applications | Fatima Margieva, Tskhinval [Eng/Rus]

I was against the breakdown of the Soviet Union. It was dangerous. People still remembered what had happened in 1920.

Oct 16, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Basmach | Koba, Tskhinval [ENG]

As we were firing farewell shots for him, we could hear a sound on the other side, someone else was firing with us from Georgia

Oct 13, 2020 Rebuilding memory

The second fire | Manana Khachapuridze, Tskhinval [ENG/RUS]

The war started on November 23, 1989, for us. They wanted to hold a rally here. So many people came down to the villages including many from Svaneti.

Oct 07, 2020 Rebuilding memory

After the war | 1991/1992. South Osetia

Armed clashes broke out in the city. There were murders.  An emergency curfew was declared in Tskhinval.

Oct 04, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Liana | Zina, Ortubani [ENG,RUS]

When the unrest started, my aunt got up and took her grandkids, all the little ones, and ran off to  Vladikavkaz.

Sep 29, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Pines and Fir in Gujarati | Luba Gogichashvili, 76 [ENG]

Now my heart aches when my husband tells the story, I yell at him. Don’t remind me of that time, I tell him. What’s it all for?

Sep 24, 2020 Rebuilding memory

White Cloth (Brassard) | Aslan, Tskhinval [ENG]

The first time I processed that the war had started was on 5th of August. I was standing in the yard with my friends.

Sep 21, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Interrogation | Alikhan Khuriev, from Dmenisi [ENG/RUS]

A few times they brought us out like they were going to take us somewhere. I always thought they were about to execute us.

Sep 15, 2020 Rebuilding memory

I sat in my empty house and started to cry | Elene Kharauli, village Nedlati [ENG]

We don’t mean anyone any harm, we were born with Ossetians, we were raised with Ossetians, we said. It was exactly so, we got along great before that.

Sep 09, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Blisters | Natasha Dzajaeva, from Tskhinval [ENG]

On the morning of the 8th of August, after the heavy firings the whole night, I ran to my neighbor to see how they were doing.

Sep 02, 2020 Rebuilding memory

The Phone | Vladimer, Tskhinval [ENG]

I replay this often, that she calls her son and someone picks up the phone there and tells her he is dead.

Aug 27, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Family Cemetery | Qristo, Upper Achabeth [ENG,RUS]

Now we reminisce and exist. If it were you, wouldn't you reminisce? Wouldn't you think, it was like that, it was like this, wouldn't you miss it?

Aug 25, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Smell of Soil | Marina, Tskhinval [ENG]

The houses were always burning around us, like you see in the movies. You just sit there helpless, just watching.

Aug 21, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Grave in the Vineyard | Elbrus, Tskhinval [ENG/RUS]

My parents had left their village on the 8th of August. Half way through, my mother’s legs started hurting.

Aug 19, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Shovel | Khvicha Nadiradze, Znauri district, village Alibari [ENG]

My mother was Ossetian, and they were cursing her, how could you raise Georgian kids, they said. What am I supposed to do?

Aug 16, 2020 Rebuilding memory

In the morgue | Irina, Tskhinval [ENG/RUS]

Georgian snipers stood on the heights across the river, and they were shooting up the city from there.

Aug 12, 2020 Rebuilding memory

War Lessons | Temur Kokoity, Tskhinval [ENG]

The first time I was ever afraid was when I was 5 years old. It was the 23rd of November, 1989.

Aug 10, 2020 Rebuilding memory

NIVA | Nunu Trapaidze-Begiashvili, from Tskhinvali [ENG]

This distinction between Ossetian and Georgian didn't exist before, then what happened, I don’t know

Aug 08, 2020 Video Story

One war on both sides of the barbed wire

Aug 06, 2020 Video Story

villages destroyed by bulldozer

Aug 04, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Wedding Dress | Elina Gabaraeva, Tskhinval [ENG]

On the 7th of August, half an hour before midnight, the gunfire began. We jumped out of bed, my mother didn’t even know what was happening.

Aug 01, 2020 Rebuilding memory

War Diaries | Beso Doiashvili | 1991, Tskhinvali [ENG]

Like I’ve been saying, I have everything written down. When I went there, some people were writing things down, so on one mission, I started too

Jul 30, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Basement | Zaira Slanova, Tskhinval [ENG,RUS]

We didn’t sleep after that night. They fired all the time. On the 7th, Saakashvili spoke and said there wouldn’t be a war.

Jul 27, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Dreams | Alika, Tskhinval [ENG]

This slogan left the most bitter impression on me: Curse the woman who carries an Ossetian in her womb

Jul 25, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Two troupes in one theater | Maka Geladze, Tskhinvali / Tbilisi [ENG]

Georgian police were already in Tskhinvali, separately Georgian and Ossetian nationalist leaders were agitating people. 

Jul 22, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Truck | Irina, Vladikavkaz [ENG/RUS]

Suddenly, just as the truck was taking a sharp turn, there was gunfire. People didn’t even have time to scream let alone escape.

Jul 18, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Promise | Marina, Tbilisi [ENG]

When they used to change their last names and try to convince me that they weren’t Ossetian, my heart would always break

Jul 09, 2020 Video Story

How were Ossetian Villages Abandoned? | Gujareti

Jul 08, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Flowers | Vera Khabelova, 68 [ENG/RUS]

The whole village was fleeing. They left everything behind, fled with the shirts on their back.

Jul 04, 2020 Rebuilding memory

“First, Talk to Us About the Occupation” | Interview with Inga Kelekhsaeva [Eng/Rus]

In the morning my mother called. She watched a Georgian news program on Facebook, where they used the video that my mother took of me

Jul 02, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Maskless | Papa Sandro, Village Elbaqiaantkari (ENG/RUS)

They came in and took the cattle from everybody who had them. They had automatics and things.

Jun 29, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Pride of the country |Babo Khatashvili, 76 [ENG]

They shot him and killed him right then and there. That kind of boy, some would say, what kind of mother had raised him?

Jun 23, 2020 Rebuilding memory

He, Bullet ridden | Aza 68 [ENG/RUS]

We sold our house in Tbilisi. We better leave, I said. ‘Cause, you’re going to a foreign country, and you need to bring something with you, right?

Jan 04, 2020 Rebuilding memory

Two Big Stone | Dali, Velebi