Vladimir Bobinac was born in 1923 in Zagreb. At the beginning of the Second World War he opted for antifascism and joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia. In December 1941 he was arrested by the Ustaše surveillance service and imprisoned. He remained in prison until May 1942. Following the end of the Second World War he continued his education; in 1947 he enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Since he was the President of the Faculty's People's Student Youth, following the Informbiro Resolution, he was expected to actively participate in the boycotting and denouncing of his colleagues, which he refused to do. As a consequence, in 1949 he was banned from the Faculty and a case was brought against him, for disloyalty to the state. In 1951 he was sent to Goli Otok, where he was imprisoned until 1953. He was both a witness and a victim of the terror that reigned there. Following his release from Goli Otok, he managed to complete his university course. However, as a former convict from Goli Otok , he encountered problems when looking for employment. Following the change in political circumstances and normalisation of relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR, he got a job as a history teacher on the island of Krk. He was an occasional tour guide around Goli Otok and had many ideas as to how to preserve the memory of all that happened on that island. He died aged 91 on Krk on 4 May 2014.