Marica Kadić was born in 1959 in Sisak. She comes from the village of Gora, situated between Petrinja and Glina. At the time of the first attacks on Petrinja she was working for the Municipality. In October 1991, together with her family, she went into refuge. Her parents, who lived in Gora, stayed in the area of Banija. She spent her time in refuge in the refugee settlement near to Novo Mesto, in Slovenia. Her husband was mobilised and he was only occasionally in touch with the family. She returned to Croatia with her children in the autumn of 1992 and she settled in the village of Nebojan. Her children started school, and Marica Kadić continued to work in Sisak. Until the liberation of that area in 1995 she lived with her children in a war threatened area. Upon her return to Croatia, she tried, through the International Red Cross and UNPROFOR, to find out what happened to her parents. The only thing she managed to learn was that the village of Gora, where her parents lived, was destroyed and that its inhabitants were killed. To this day Marica Kadić has been unable to find the remains of her parents.