Maja Vatović Mrvelj
Maja Vatović Mrvelj was born in 1953 in Dubrovnik. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s she was with her two children and her mother in Dubrovnik. Her then-nineteen year old son volunteered for the Croatian Army at the very beginning of the war. On November 9, 1991, together with six of his co-fighters, he was killed near to the village of Bosanka on Srđ, which was one of the last strongholds of the defence of Dubrovnik. For a long time Maja Vatović Mrvelj was unable to find out what exactly happened to her son and it was only nine months after his death that she managed to trace her son's remains. Apart from a month that she spent on Pelješac, she stayed in Dubrovnik for the whole of the siege. Today she is retired and she lives in Dubrovnik.