Ružica Spasić

Ružica Spasić was born in 1953 in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to a Croatian family. In 1968 she went to Vukovar to pursue her education, where she has remained to this day. Just before the war in the 1990s she was working and lived with her two sons - one of whom was a minor - and her husband, who is a Serb. With the beginning of the war they found themselves in a difficult situation; they occasionally went to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Ružica Spasić had family, but they would return to Vukovar. In April 1992 they returned to Vukovar permanently. Her older son was mobilised by the army of SAO Krajina and he occasionally had to go to various battlefields. At the time of Operation Storm he was at positions near to Gračac. Following the liberation of Knin, the family anxiously awaited his return, which never took place. After many long years searching for his remains, his body was identified in 2004 and the family finally got to bury Dražen Spasić. During the long search for the remains of her son, Ružica Spasić became active in the Association of Families of Killed and Missing Persons. She did not cease her activities having found her son's remains.