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    The aim of the project Unveiling personal memories on war and detention is to affirm personal memories of all interested witnesses of political events in Croatia and to preserve them from falling into oblivion.Read more

    The methodology which Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past uses in collecting personal memories is partially grounded in the basic methodological principles of the oral history method. It has been used since 1948, when the oral history method was accepted in the scientific community as a technique of documenting history and it enables Documenta, as a human rights organization working on the process of dealing...Read more

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Kata Sertić

Kata Sertić was born in Saborsko, on September 26, 1959. During the Second World War a lot of men from Saborsko were in the ustashe army, a lot of people from the village were killed or ended up in Bleiburg. Some members of her family were in the ustashe army as well. Before the war in the nineties she had been working as a radiology engineer in Slovenia. In 1988 she moved to Sarajevo with her daughter and husband. At the time when the war started in Croatia, she was working at the Radiology Institute of the Koševo hospital. She left Bosnia in 1991 and came back to Croatia. She started to work as a nurse in the Ogulin hospital. When the Croatian army established its own medical service, she stayed in the medical on Kapela, at the battlefield. She had been in the army until 1996. Today she lives in Saborsko.

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