Savka Babić was born in 1944 in Donji Lapac, in an area where the Serb population was greatly affected by the Second World War. She worked in a day nursery in Split for twenty years. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s, she was in Split. From the very beginning of the war she and her family suffered intimidation and when the economic situation worsened her husband lost his job. The family decided that her husband should go to Serbia with the children, in order to protect them. Savka Babić stayed in Split so as to keep their apartment and her job. At the end of September 1991 she was fired and at the beginning of October she went to Donji Lapac, which became a part of SAO Krajina [Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina]. Following Operation Storm she left for Serbia with the refugee column; she spent her time in refuge in Sombor. In 1998 she returned to Donji Lapac, where she still lives today. The process of reconstruction was a difficult one, and only a part of their house was rebuilt.