Abstract
The keeping or discard of objects is not always within people’s power range. War and the escape from war are instances when people are violently separated from their possessions due to massive destruction. At the same time, few objects might be saved or regained in later stages of life. This paper is about objects that people who fled the war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s as children were able to preserve. In my analysis, I point out how the biographies of people and things are entangled, joining and parting at various points in time. As people’s and things’ biographies do not inevitably align with each other, the conditions that facilitated such a keeping or recovery are reconstructed. The article concludes that agency does not always reside with humans but is distributed between people, things and the material and social infrastructures that both are embedded in.
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