The erasure of names inevitably accompanies genocide, as it did in my homeland Bosnia in the 1990s. When a force burns libraries and razes religious buildings, it does not want to just get rid of their physical bodies. It wants to create oblivion of origins.
The greatest symbol of this erasure is the water fountain my great-grandfather Fejzo Tuzlic made. Its changing name symbolises everything we went through in the war, which we so stubbornly hang on to.
Traditionally, among Muslims, there is a belief that one of the ways to keep amassing good deeds even after your death is to leave a public good, a khayr, such as a water fountain.
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