Muamer Avdic was born in Bosnia in 1991 and left the country with his family not long after that, immigrating to Germany. They eventually made their way to the United States in 1998, settling first in Washington D.C. and then moving to Carlisle.
On 29 April 2022, Emsad Cickusic discussed his life and experience surviving the siege of Sarajevo with students in the class Oral History of the Bosnia Diaspora in Carlisle. Emsad Cickusic was born in 1973 in Tuzla, where he spent his childhood and attended elementary school. In 1988, he applied for and attended military high school in Sarajevo.
Ethan Johnson, born in Sierra Vista, Arizona in 1999, is a second-generation Bosnian-American who currently attends Dickinson College in Carlisle Pennsylvania. Ethan’s mother, Maida Poljakovic, is originally from Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. After briefly seeking refuge in Switzerland with her sister during the war, Maida returned to Tuzla and worked as an interpreter for NATO.