Headline : An Afghan museum, that buried its artifacts after Taliban takeover, is reborn online

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The Afghanistan Memory Home Museum creates "memory boxes" with personal belongings and photographs and documents for those who suffered or died in the country's conflicts. This memory box memorializes Kawsar Qubadian and includes her sweater and slippers. Afghanistan Memory Home hide caption

At first, it was a small museum in a nondescript office building in Kabul, with a seemingly mundane collection — like a 14-year-old's schoolbooks and black sandals. The teenager had died in Kabul in a 2015 attack on civilians by a branch of the Islamic State, ISIS-K, which has been responsible for several deadly campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan.The schoolbooks and sandals were among hundreds of items that belonged to Afghans who died in the many conflicts that have roiled the country.

The physical facility — known as the Afghanistan Memory Home Museum — no longer exists. Because the Taliban had threatened the museum's organizers, they decided to close when the Taliban marched into Afghanistan's capital city in 2021 and took power.

But the museum still survives. Documents and artifacts were hidden, buried and smuggled out of the country. And eventually a virtual incarnation emerged. In addition, some of the rescued artifacts were displayed at the U.N. Convention for the Afghan War Victims, held in The Hague, on December 3. "Truth telling and bearing witness are important ... helping to acknowledge, honor and memorialize what victims have suffered — and their resilience as survivors," said Volker Turk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, addressing the event.

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