Melita Begović
Melita Begović was born in 1965 in Vinkovci. She is a polytechnic professor. She spent her childhood and youth in Vinkovci and was there at the beginning of the war in the 1990s. During one fierce shelling of Vinkovci, whilst her family was in an improvised shelter, her two children aged 18 months and three years and her father were gravely injured. Her children's lives were in jeopardy and they went through a number of operations. Most of their treatment went on in the children's hospital in Klaićeva Street in Zagreb. Whilst the children were in hospital, Melita moved around various accommodation in Zagreb. At the time, her husband was on the battlefield in eastern Slavonia. Following her children's recovery, she resolved to go back to Vinkovci. With her children, she returned on February 23, 1992 and she spent the rest of the war in this war-stricken area. Today she works at a bilingual school in Vinkovci and she is active in the Association of Civil Victims of the Homeland War.