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    The aim of the project Unveiling personal memories on war and detention is to affirm personal memories of all interested witnesses of political events in Croatia and to preserve them from falling into oblivion.Read more

    The methodology which Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past uses in collecting personal memories is partially grounded in the basic methodological principles of the oral history method. It has been used since 1948, when the oral history method was accepted in the scientific community as a technique of documenting history and it enables Documenta, as a human rights organization working on the process of dealing...Read more

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    The CroMe project is financed by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Matra Programme: supporting social transition. The Matra programme supports countries in Southeast and Eastern Europe in the transition to a pluralist and democratic society, governed by the rule of law.Read more

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Slavko Malnar

Slavko Malnar

Slavko Malnar was born on February 8, 1937 in Ravnice near Čabar, where he spent his entire life. When he was less than...

Vida Tućan

Vida Tućan

Vida Tućan was born in 1938 in Zagreb. She is a physical education teacher by vocation, but she has also simultaneously...

Krešimir Sršen

Krešimir Sršen

Krešimir Sršen was born in 1943 in Trn, near to Opuzen. His father participated in the National Liberation Movement, ...

Vojko Ivica

Vojko Ivica

Vojko Ivica was born in 1948 in Split. He comes from a Partisan family. He was brought up in the spirit of antifascism...

Tonči Majić

Tonči Majić

Tonči Majić was born in 1951 in Split. At the age of 21 he was involved in a serious traffic accident, the...

Slovenka Marinković

Slovenka Marinković

Slovenka Marinković was born in 1951 in Leskovac, in Serbia. In 1972 she moved to Split with her husband, a member of...

Toni Vukičević

Toni Vukičević

Toni Vukičević was born in 1966 in Split. He is a lawyer. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s he was starting his...

Maja Mateljan

Maja Mateljan

Maja Marija Mateljan was born in 1966 in Split. During the war in the 1990s she worked for various international...

Stipe Božić

Stipe Božić

Stipe Božić was born in 1951 in a small village called Zavojane, in the Dalmatian hinterland. During the Second World...

Vanja Pagar

Vanja Pagar

Vanja Pagar was born in Split in 1969. He is a visual artist. During the war in the 1990s he often travelled between...

Katarina Bergman

Katarina Bergman

Katarina Bergman was born in 1940 in Donji Varoš, near to Stara Gradiška. She moved to Pakrac in 1957 to pursue her...

Vladimir Bobinac

Vladimir Bobinac

Vladimir Bobinac was born in 1923 in Zagreb. At the beginning of the Second World War he opted for antifascism and...

Ognjen Tus

Ognjen Tus

Ognjen Tus was born in 1950 in Belgrade, to the family of a Yugoslav National Army officer. Both of his parents...

Ružica Spasić

Ružica Spasić

Ružica Spasić was born in 1953 in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to a Croatian family. In 1968 she went to Vukovar to...

Milka Grdić

Milka Grdić

Milka Grdić was born in 1940 in Saborsko, in Lika. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s she was with her family in...

Milica Ergić

Milica Ergić

Milica Ergić was born in 1932 in Gaćeleze, near to Šibenik. Following a childhood in poverty, and living through the...

Savo Počuča

Savo Počuča

Savo Počuča was born in 1947 in Kutjevo, to a Serb father and a Russian mother. In an effort to get an education he...

Zdravko Brlošić

Zdravko Brlošić

Zdravko Brlošić was born in 1951 in Osijek. Before the war in the 1990s he worked for Saponia Osijek, one of the...

Draženka Kosić

Draženka Kosić

Draženka Kosić was born in 1969 in Virovitica. She spent her childhood and youth with her parents in Slatina, before...

Jelena Baketa

Jelena Baketa

Jelena Baketa was born in 1937 in Lika, but she has been living in Lovas since 1939. She was a child born out of...

Nada Bodiroga

Nada Bodiroga

Nada Bodiroga was born in 1956 in Slavsko Polje, in the Municipality of Vrginmost. She spent her childhood and youth in...

Tihomir Miljković

Tihomir Miljković

Tihomir Miljković was born in 1941 in Novi Jankovci. During the Second World War his father was mobilised and later...

Miladin Jakovljević

Miladin Jakovljević

Miladin Jakovljević was born in 1948, in the municipality of Ključ, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1959 his parents...

Ivanka Katava

Ivanka Katava

Ivanka Katava was born in 1968 in Stari Jankovci, in eastern Slavonia. At the outbreak of the war in the 1990s she was...

Mijo Šajtoš

Mijo Šajtoš

Mijo Šajtoš was born in 1962 in Stari Jankovci. He grew up in a Rusyn family that had moved to the area of eastern...

Duško Kostić

Duško Kostić

Duško Kostić was born in 1974 in Kneževo, in Baranja, to a Roma family. Even as a child he was aware of...

Radovan Zečić

Radovan Zečić

Radovan Zečić was born in 1971 in Belgrade, but he spent his childhood and early youth with his parents in Zagreb....

Željko Somborac

Željko Somborac

Željko Somborac was born in 1955 in Lovas, in Syrmia. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s, the companies that he...

Đorđe Vučinić

Đorđe Vučinić

Đorđe Vučinić was born in 1970 in Vukovar. At the outbreak of the war in the 1990s he was in Vukovar. A bar that he...

Vjeran Piršić

Vjeran Piršić

Vjeran Piršić was born in 1963 in Rijeka. He comes from a family that experienced unpleasantries and suffering as a...

Jelena Janković

Jelena Janković

Jelena Janković was born in 1953 in Vranjak, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1965 her family moved to Vinkovci in...

Miroslav Varga

Miroslav Varga

Miroslav Varga was born in 1962 in Zagreb, where he saw the beginning of the war. Right at the beginning of the conflict...

Lovre Reić

Lovre Reić

Lovre Reić was born in 1920 in Split. He comes from a family in which Croatian identity and the Catholic religion were...

Željko Šipka

Željko Šipka

Željko Šipka was born in 1954 in Novska. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s he was in Novska with his family....

Siniša Gašparević

Siniša Gašparević

Siniša Gašparević was born in 1981 in Split. Before the war in the 1990s he lived with his parents and...

Lidija Harak

Lidija Harak

Lidija Harak was born in 1968 in the municipality of Bač in Vojvodina, in Serbia. The river Danube divides Bač from...

Miljkan Gvoić

Miljkan Gvoić

Miljkan Gvoić was born in 1929 in Dugo Selo Lasinjsko, a village with a majority Orthodox population. His father spent...

Biserka Momčinović

Biserka Momčinović

Biserka Momčinović was born in 1946 in Zagreb, to a Partisan, antifascist family. Both of her parents were awarded the...

Spomenko Bralić

Spomenko Bralić

Spomenko Bralić was born in 1961 in Donji Miholjac, but he spent all of his life in Rijeka. Having completed his...

Marina Maglov

Marina Maglov

Marina Maglov was born in 1960 in Nova Gradiška. After her marriage she moved to Knin, where she has been living since...

Gordana Stojanović

Gordana Stojanović

Gordana Stojanović was born in 1960 in Virovitica. In her early childhood, she moved to Baranja with her parents who...

Vojo Kutić

Vojo Kutić

Vojo Kutić was born in 1939 in Donji Vakuf, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He moved to Bjelovar in 1961, where he worked in...

Marija Lovrić

Marija Lovrić

Marija Lovrić was born in 1950 in Osijek, in a family that had come to Slavonia from the Dalmatian Hinterland,...

Meri Butirić

Meri Butirić

Meri Butirić was born in 1951 in Trogir, though she moved to Split with her family at the start of primary school. She...

Nenad Boban

Nenad Boban

Nenad Boban was born in 1943 in Split. After graduating from the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo, he started his career as a...

Vinko Pandža

Vinko Pandža

Vinko Pandža was born in 1982 in Split. He comes from a family that originates from Bosnia and Herzegovina. His father...

Aleksandar Antić

Aleksandar Antić

Aleksandar Saša Antić was born in 1973 in Split to a family of an officer of the former Yugoslav National Army. He...

Božo Judaš

Božo Judaš

Božo Judaš was born in the year 1939, but the exact date of his birth is not known. He comes from the small village of...

Slaven Rašković

Slaven Rašković

Slaven Rašković was born in 1984 in Knin. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s he was a pupil in the first year of...

Milan Tepšić

Milan Tepšić

Milan Tepšić was born in 1930, in Gvozd. His family comes from the area of Kordun. In July 1941 his father was taken...

Dalibor Vašarević

Dalibor Vašarević

Dalibor Vašarević was born on February 9, 1976 in Slavonski Brod, the town with the highest number of children killed...

Goran Božićević

Goran Božićević

Goran Božičević was born in 1962 in Zadar. His father was a highly positioned officer in the Yugoslav National Army....

Eugen Frković

Eugen Frković

Eugen Frković was born in 1950 in Benkovac. He worked at the 'Radnik' construction company. In 1983 he was fired...

Boris Šimić

Boris Šimić

Boris Šimić was born in 1959 in Šibenik. A few months after his birth, his family moved to Zadar. He was educated at...

Slavica Kanić Detelić

Slavica Kanić Detelić

Slavica Kanić Detelić was born in 1926 in the Velika Gorica municipality. At the very beginning of the Second World...

Vera Bukvić

Vera Bukvić

Vera Bukvić was born in 1947 in Popovo Polje, in Herzegovina. In 1967, following her marriage, she moved to Dubrovnik....

Petar Grdić Kinkela

Petar Grdić Kinkela

Petar Grdić Kinkela was born in 1969 in Saborsko. Before the war he worked at the '3. maj' shipyard in Rijeka and just...

Josip Bašić

Josip Bašić

Josip Bašić was born in 1926 on the island of Molat. Still a minor, he joined the resistance movement that existed on...

Zvjezdanka Vlašić

Zvjezdanka Vlašić

Zvjezdanka Vlašić was born in 1942 in Šibenik. Her mother, father and much of her family were involved in the...

Stipo Brdarić

Stipo Brdarić

Stipo Brdarić was born in 1956 in Torjanci, in Baranja. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s he was in Beli...

Savka Babić

Savka Babić

Savka Babić was born in 1944 in Donji Lapac, in an area where the Serb population was greatly affected by the Second...

Brigita Knežević

Brigita Knežević

Brigita Knežević is recorded as having been born on 25th of April, 1940, in Zagreb. She was in fact born in the...

Slobodan Đurić

Slobodan Đurić

Slobodan Đurić was born in 1944 in Belgrade. His family comes from Virovitica, but in 1949 they moved to Bjelovar....

Zlatko Sinobad

Zlatko Sinobad

Zlatko Sinobad was born in 1923 in Benkovac. When he was still a young boy, his father - who was headmaster of the high...

Kristian Petric

Kristian Petric

Kristian Petric was born in 1970 in Split. Kristijan's father comes from the island of Vis and during the Second World...

Natalija Bešlić

Natalija Bešlić

Natalija Bešlić was born in 1983 in Osijek. She comes from a mixed Croat-Serb family. Her mother's family stayed in...

Zrinka Šesto

Zrinka Šesto

Zrinka Šesto was born in 1972 in Vukovar. She completed primary school and high school in Vukovar, where she lived...

Đivo Dražić

Đivo Dražić

Đivo Dražić was born in 1972 in Dubrovnik. During the time of Yugoslavia his family experienced a degree of...

Srđan Dvornik

Srđan Dvornik

Srđan Dvornik was born in 1953 in Šibenik. By vocation he is a professor of philosophy and sociology. During his...

Ante Perković

Ante Perković

Ante Perković was born in 1973 in Zadar. He is a freelance journalist, a publicist, a rock-music critic and a musician....

Vesna Bosanac

Vesna Bosanac

Vesna Bosanac was born in 1949 in Subotica, in Vojvodina, to a family that comes from Eastern Slavonia. After graduating...

Svetozar Jovanović

Svetozar Jovanović

Svetozar Jovanović was born in 1965 in Dubrovnik. His father, a military man, comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina, from...

Lino Veljak

Lino Veljak

Lino Veljak was born in 1950 in Rijeka, to a family originating from the island of Cres,with a pronounced Catholic...

Damir Pilić

Damir Pilić

Damir Pilić was born in 1969 in Šibenik. He comes from a family that moved from Bosnia to the Dalmatian hinterland...

Davor Lucijanović

Davor Lucijanović

Davor Lucijanović was born in 1958 in Dubrovnik. He comes from a well-off Dubrovnik family that has had a long...

Ivo Marinović

Ivo Marinović

Ivo Marinović was born in 1920 in Mikulići in the Konavle region. He started studying medicine in Belgrade, but with...

Meri Juričko

Meri Juričko

Meri Juričko was born in 1955 in Split. She is a lawyer by vocation. In 1977 she started working at the Civil...

Zeev Milo

Zeev Milo

Zeev Milo was born in Zagreb in 1922. He comes from a Jewish family who were in Zagreb at the beginning of the Second...

Zvonimir Krstulović

Zvonimir Krstulović

Zvonimir Krstulović was born in Supetar, on the island of Brač, in 1963. When he was seven years old, his family moved...

Zdravko Pavičić

Zdravko Pavičić

Zdravko Pavičić was born in 1961 in Slavonski Brod. His parents come from Lika, but after the Second World War they...

Ane Desin

Ane Desin

Ane Desin was born in 1922 in Mikulići in the Konavle region. Apart from the period that she spent in refuge during the...

Melita Begović

Melita Begović

Melita Begović was born in 1965 in Vinkovci. She is a polytechnic professor. She spent her childhood and youth in...

Gonzaga Peras

Gonzaga Peras

Sister Gonzaga Peras was born in 1946 in Domašinec, in the Međimurje region. At the age of fourteen she decided to...

Veljko Grković

Veljko Grković

Veljko Grković was born in 1959. His family comes from Lika. He spent his early childhood and youth in Zadar. He was in...

Sanja Sarnavka

Sanja Sarnavka

Sanja Sarnavka was born in 1954 in Skopje, in Macedonia. Her father was a serviceman, a member of the People's...

Vladimir Čalić

Vladimir Čalić

Vladimir Čalić was born in 1928 in Krbavica, in Lika. The area suffered greatly during the Second World War; he...

Milan Tadić

Milan Tadić

Milan Tadić was born in 1967 in Donji Lapac. He grew up in Germany. He was married in 1990 and set up a driving school...

Božidar Jurjević

Božidar Jurjević

Božidar Jurjević was born in 1963 in Dubrovnik. After studying at the Visual Arts Academy in Sarajevo, he returned to...

Enver Babić

Enver Babić

Enver Babić was born in 1957 in Foča, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a result of the modest economic circumstances of...

Tatjana Škrbić

Tatjana Škrbić

Tatjana Škrbić was born in 1957 in Osijek. She is an economist by vocation. Very early in life she became interested...

Mario Curić

Mario Curić

Mario Curić was born in 1966 in Dubrovnik. His family came to the Dubrovnik area from eastern Herzegovina in the 1960s....

Meri Kirlić

Meri Kirlić

Meri Kirlić was born in 1940 in Čilipi. His father held anti-communist beliefs and he was killed in 1944 by Partisan...

Nurija Sefić

Nurija Sefić

Nurija Sefić was born in 1956 in Bosanska Krupa. In 1960 his family moved to Sisak, where he still lives to this day....

Milena Perčin

Milena Perčin

Milena Perčin was born in 1949 in the village of Trbounje, in the Municipality of Drniš. She is a nurse. At the...

Ane Bokun

Ane Bokun

Ane Bokun was born in 1951 in a small place called Podimoć, in the Dubrovnik Municipality. Ane, her husband and their...

Martin Čičin Šain

Martin Čičin Šain

Martin Čičin Šain was born in 1952 in Vodice. From 1973 he worked as a member of the Yugoslav Police, and later the...

Zemina Jaroš

Zemina Jaroš

Zemina Jaroš was born in 1959 in Bizovac, near Osijek, to a family that comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina. When she was...

Marinko Biškić

Marinko Biškić

Marinko Biškić was born in Tuzla, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1962. His family comes from a small village near to...

Ivo Škorić

Ivo Škorić

Ivo Škorić was born in 1964 in Germany. His mother's parents were Volksdeutsche. During the period of Yugoslavia, her...

Željko Obradović

Željko Obradović

Željko Obradović was born in 1967 in Donji Lapac. His family suffered grave losses in the Second World War. During the...

Metodije Prkačin

Metodije Prkačin

Metodije Prkačin was born in 1947 on the Pelješac peninsula. His family comes from Herzegovina: in 1905 they moved to...

Ivan Župić

Ivan Župić

Ivan Župić was born in 1965 in Sinj. Although members of his family did not fight on the side of the occupying forces,...

Miro Vulić

Miro Vulić

Miro Vulić was born in 1944 in the village of Strujići, in Trebinje Municipality. In 1960 he came to Dubrovnik in...

Ante Lešaja

Ante Lešaja

Ante Lešaja was born in 1931 on the island of Korčula. He spent the period of the Second World War on Korčula...

Ana Pejanović

Ana Pejanović

Ana Pejanović was born in 1948 in Slavonski Kobaš. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s she lived in Slavonski...

Pero Novaković

Pero Novaković

Pero Novaković was born in 1933 in Čilipi, in Konavle. He comes from a left-wing family who were landowners before the...

Mišo Mihočević

Mišo Mihočević

Petar Mišo Mihočević was born in 1949 in Knin, but he spent his childhood and youth in Dubrovnik. He was educated in...

Marko Sjekavica

Marko Sjekavica

Marko Sjekavica was born in 1981 in Dubrovnik. He comes from an old Dubrovnik family which lost a large part of its...

Robert Hausvička

Robert Hausvička

Robert Hausvička was born in 1968 in Dubrovnik, in a family of Czech origin. He spent his childhood and youth in...

Marina Desin

Marina Desin

Marina Desin was born in 1952 in Molunat, in Konavle, to a land owning family which, as well as leasing land, was...

Slavica Pauković

Slavica Pauković

Slavica Pauković was born in 1950 in Glinsko Novo Selo. Since 1961 she has been living in Petrinja. At the beginning of...

Marica Kadić

Marica Kadić

Marica Kadić was born in 1959 in Sisak. She comes from the village of Gora, situated between Petrinja and Glina. At...

Anton Hauswitschka

Anton Hauswitschka

Antun Hauswitschka was born in 1965 in Dubrovnik. His great grandfather came to the area of Dubrovnik with the...

Maja Vatović Mrvelj

Maja Vatović Mrvelj

Maja Vatović Mrvelj was born in 1953 in Dubrovnik. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s she was with her two...

Đorđe Jovičić

Đorđe Jovičić

Đorđe Jovičić was born in 1945 in the village of Drenovac, in the Municipality of Glina. At the beginning of the...

Unveiling personal memories on war and detention

Unveiling personal memories on war and...

Unveiling personal memories on war and detention

Unveiling personal memories on war and...

Veljko Vičević

Veljko Vičević

Veljko Vičević was born in 1956 in Zagreb. For some time during Yugoslavia he was a youth functionary and he got to...

Krešimir Ivančić

Krešimir Ivančić

Krešimir Ivančić was born in 1963 in Pakrac, but he spent all of his life in a village near to Daruvar, called...

Siniša Maričić

Siniša Maričić

Siniša Maričić was born in 1926 in Skopje, in Macedonia. His father was an architectural engineer so the family moved...

Slobodan Jakovljević

Slobodan Jakovljević

Slobodan Jakovljević was born in 1968 in Vukovar. During the political turmoil and the break-up of Yugoslavia he was in...

Mirsad Tokić

Mirsad Tokić

Mirsad Tokić was born in 1969 in Zagreb. He grew up in a multinational environment with a belief in the values that...

Marija Lukšić

Marija Lukšić

Marija Lukšić was born in 1951 in Dubrovnik, in a family that comes from Herzegovina. At the beginning of the war in...

Ante Prkačin

Ante Prkačin

Ante Prkačin was born in 1953 in Slavonski Brod in a family that comes from eastern Herzegovina. At the end of the War,...

Mate Vuković

Mate Vuković

Mate Vuković was born in Saborsko, Lika, in 1961. During WWII, some members of his family were involved in the Ustashe...

Anka Zjačić

Anka Zjačić

Anka Zjačić was born in 1950 in the village of Srijane near to Omiš. She married a JNA [Yugoslav National Army]...

Sovjetka Režić

Sovjetka Režić

Sovjetka Režić was born in 1946 in Metković. During the Second World War her father was the organiser of an uprising...

Sniježana Matejčić

Sniježana Matejčić

Sniježana Matejčić was born in 1958 in Požega. During the Informbiro period her father was denounced and imprisoned...

Gordan Bosanac

Gordan Bosanac

Gordan Bosanac was born in 1973 in Zagreb. There was a degree of resistance within his family towards the predominant...

Ivan Mujić

Ivan Mujić

Ivan Mujić comes from Lovas, in eastern Slavonia. He was born in 1954. At the outbreak of the war in the 1990s, he...

Hrvoje Klasić

Hrvoje Klasić

Hrvoje Klasić was born in 1972 in Sisak, into a family that respected the values proclaimed by the SFRJ [Socialist...

Drago Hedl

Drago Hedl

Drago Hedl was born in 1950 in Osijek. His father's family is of German origin; they came to Slavonia in the 18th...

Ružica Bisaha

Ružica Bisaha

Ružica Bisaha was born in 1956 in the village of Potnjana near Đakovo, in Slavonia. She spent her childhood and youth...

Štefica Krstić

Štefica Krstić

Štefica Krstić was born in 1946 in Sarvaš, a suburb of Osijek. Her parents came to Slavonia after the Second World...

Jasna Puljić

Jasna Puljić

Jasna Puljić was born in 1968 in Vinkovci, in Eastern Slavonia. Her paternal grandfather was killed during the Second...

Gojko Matić

Gojko Matić

Gojko Matić was born on May 18, 1929 in Divoselo, a settlement which is today a part of the town of Gospić. At the...

Stanislava Gregurinčić Žilić

Stanislava Gregurinčić Žilić

Stanislava Gregurinčić Žilić was born in 1935 in Petrinja. She comes from a Partisan family. One of her aunts was...

Željka Raković

Željka Raković

Željka Raković was born in 1956 in Sisak. She spent the duration of the war in the 1990s in Sisak, with her two...

Đurđa Gmaz

Đurđa Gmaz

Đurđa Gmaz was born in 1950 in Sisak. Her family comes from the Sisak region, and was involved in agricultural work....

Darko Vasiljević

Darko Vasiljević

Darko Vasiljević was born in 1974 in Dubrovnik. His family comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina. On November 10, 1991,...

Vladimir Solar

Vladimir Solar

Vladimir Solar was born in 1941 in Sveti Ivan Žabno near to Koprivnica. He is a doctor. Until the outbreak of war in...

Joško Jelavić

Joško Jelavić

Joško Jelavić was born in 1937 in Trpanj, on the Pelješac peninsula. Before the war in Croatia he worked as a...

Vedran Benić

Vedran Benić

Vedran Benić, a well-known journalist and a long-time correspondent for HTV [Croatian Television] from Dubrovnik, was...

Vladimir Onofri

Vladimir Onofri

Vladimir Onofri’s family comes from the island of Korčula. After completing his studies in biology at the University...

Jany Hansal

Jany Hansal

Jany Hansal was born in 1949 on the island of Mljet. Some of her family left for America and other parts of the world as...

Feđa Šehović

Feđa Šehović

Feđa Šehović was born in 1930. He comes from a Partisan family. As an 11 year old boy, thanks to his uncle, he joined...

Miško Ercegović

Miško Ercegović

Mihovil Ercegović was born in 1947 in Dubrovnik. A part of his family suffered losses during the Second World War, and...

Zoran Šangut

Zoran Šangut

Zoran Šangut was born in 1970 in Vukovar where he spent a happy childhood and early youth. At the beginning of the war...

Zdravko Bazdan

Zdravko Bazdan

Zdravko Bazdan was born in 1946 in Dubrovnik. He spent his youth in Belgrade, where he also completed his education. He...

fra Josip Sopta

fra Josip Sopta

Josip Sopta is from an area of Herzegovina in which a majority of the population was involved with the Ustaše Movement...

Mile Radovanović

Mile Radovanović

Mile Radovanović was born in 1944, close to Bjelovar. His family on his father’s side suffered in the Second World...

Milić Martinović

Milić Martinović

Milić Martinović was born in 1959 in Vojnić, in Kordun. The village that he comes from, Johovo, lost 27 of its...

Jasenka Borojević

Jasenka Borojević

Jasenka Borojević was born on October 3, 1946, in Sisak. During the Second World War her father spent time in the...

Mira Đaković

Mira Đaković

Mira Đaković was born in Bjelopolje, near Korenica, in Lika. Her family was affected by the Second World War, during...

Mira Repac

Mira Repac

Mira Repac was born in Bihać, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1968. Her family suffered losses in the Second World War....

Štefanija Mršić

Štefanija Mršić

Štefanija Mršić originates from the area of Varaždin, but at the beginning of the 1970s she married and moved to the...

Željko Brala

Željko Brala

Željko Brala comes from Posedarje, 25 kilometres from Zadar. He was born in 1968 in Zadar. In March 1991 he joined the...

Dragica Vajnberger

Dragica Vajnberger

Dragica Vajnberger was born in Zagreb in 1919 into a Jewish family of artisans. Daughter of Ervin and Margita, her...

Eva Akerman

Eva Akerman

Eva Akerman was born into a Jewish family from Varaždin. She was a pharmacy student when the Independent State of...

Marko Đukić

Marko Đukić

Marko Đukić was born in 1946 in Donji Lapac into a family of agricultural workers. The family did not suffer any...

Miro Tomić

Miro Tomić

Miro Tomić was born in 1969 in central Bosnia, in the Municipality of Kakanj. During the Croat-Muslim conflict in June...

Slavko Komar

Slavko Komar

Slavko Komar was born in 1918 in Gospić. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. He became a member of SKOJ...

Dušan Ljubičić

Dušan Ljubičić

Dušan Ljubičić was born in 1952 in Krupa, a settlement near Obrovac, in Zadar County. Prior to the war in the 1990s...

Vesna Levar

Vesna Levar

Vesna Levar was born in 1968 in Belišće, in Osijek-Baranja County. During the Second World War her mother was deported...

Sonja Leka

Sonja Leka

Sonja Leka was born in Karlovac in 1965. Her family suffered grave losses in the Second World War. She spent her...

Milan Nakarada

Milan Nakarada

Milan Nakarada was born in 1939 in Ličko Petrovo Selo. His father was an Orthodox priest. Both of his parents were...

Đuro Kresović

Đuro Kresović

Đuro Kresović was born in Modrino Selo, in Šibenik hinterland on December 2, 1937. During the Second World War his...

Zorka Jovetić

Zorka Jovetić

Zorka Jovetić was born in 1959 in Lička Jesenica, in Lika, where until the war in the 1990s the majority of the...

Ivan Žagrović

Ivan Žagrović

Ivan Žagrović was born in 1944 in Saborsko. He grew up in a poor family, the child of a single mother. His father was...

Tonči Vedrić

Tonči Vedrić

Tonči Vedrić was born in 1974 in Posedarje, in the Zadar hinterland. In 1993, at the age of nineteen, he joined the...

Mihovil Pavlić

Mihovil Pavlić

Mihovil Pavlić was born in 1928 in Jelov Klanac, in the municipality of Rakovica. The area suffered greatly in the...

Kata Sertić

Kata Sertić

Kata Sertić was born in Saborsko, on September 26, 1959. During the Second World War a lot of men from Saborsko were in...

Petar Grdić Maćan

Petar Grdić Maćan

Petar Grdić Maćan was born in 1970 in the village of Saborsko, in the Lika region. His maternal grandfather, an...

Vesna Bogunović

Vesna Bogunović

Vesna Bogunović was born in 1959 in Gračac, in the Lika region. During the Second World War her family suffered...

Marko Bičanić

Marko Bičanić

Marko Bićanić was born in 1962 in Saborsko, in Lika. During the Second World War, a large number of Saborsko...

Mileva Babić

Mileva Babić

Mileva Babić was born in Željava, in Lika, in 1933. The village is near to the Željava underground airbase which...

Sava Ćalić

Sava Ćalić

Sava Ćalić was born in 1924 in the village of Krbavica. Her family suffered great losses in the Second World War: out...

Petar Rapaić

Petar Rapaić

Petar Rapaić was born in 1926 in the village of Krbavica, in Lika. In that area there was a strong Partisan movement...

Jovo Kovačević

Jovo Kovačević

Jovo Kovačević was born in 1957 in Donji Lapac. During the Second World War his family supported the Partisan...

Miljenko Turniški

Miljenko Turniški

Miljenko Turniški was born in 1961 in Subotica, in Vojvodina. He comes from a family which, as a result of the...

Slavko Degoricija

Slavko Degoricija

Slavko Degoricija was born in 1931 in the village of Kompolje, in Lika. After graduating from a teaching college, he...

Pino Bačić

Pino Bačić

Pino Bačić was born in 1953 in a family that comes from Vela Luka, on the island of Korčula. He lived and worked in...

Anita Vedrić

Anita Vedrić

Anita Vedrić was born in Zadar in 1980. Her family comes from Islam Latinski, a little village in the Zadar hinterland....

Vesna Jakumetović

Vesna Jakumetović

Vesna Jakumetović was born in Vukovar in 1962. The beginning of the war found her with her father and mother in...

Nera Vrkaš

Nera Vrkaš

Nera Vrkaš was born in 1954 in Makarska. Members of her family participated in the Movement of National Liberation....

Darko Smolić-Ročak

Darko Smolić-Ročak

Darko Smolić Ročak was born in 1961 in Sukošan, near to Zadar. Members of his family fought on opposite sides during...

Ladislav Bognar

Ladislav Bognar

Ladislav Bognar was born in 1942 in Slavonski Brod. He comes from a Partisan family. Until the war in the 1990s he was a...

Miro Bogdanović

Miro Bogdanović

Miroslav Bogdanović was born in 1954 in Split. His father was a JNA [Yugoslav National Army] officer who moved from...

Slaven Tolj

Slaven Tolj

Slaven Tolj was born in 1964 in Dubrovnik. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo. At the end of the...

Lukša Peko

Lukša Peko

Lukša Peko is an artist and painter, born in 1941 in Dubrovnik. His father was a prominent member of HSS [Croatian...

Nikola Miljević

Nikola Miljević

Nikola Miljević was born in 1951 in the village of Šibine, near to Glina. His family suffered during the Second World...

Ivica Horvatić

Ivica Horvatić

Ivan Horvatić was born in 1946 in Glina. By vocation, he is a sanitary engineer and he spent his working life in the...

Bruno Čavić

Bruno Čavić

Bruno Čavić was born in 1956 in Zagreb, in a family with a very complex history. Just after the war, some family...

Hajrudin Hromadžić

Hajrudin Hromadžić

Hajrudin Hromadžić was born in 1971 in Bihać, in northwest Bosnia. He comes from a family which adopted the...

Julijana Rosandić

Julijana Rosandić

Julijana Rosandić was born in 1952 in the village of Klakar, east of Slavonski Brod. She comes from an old Slavonian...

Vera Winter

Vera Winter

Vera Winter was born in 1923 in Glamoč, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She comes from a family of teachers. During the...

Milica Miladinović

Milica Miladinović

Milica Miladinović was born in 1951 near to Kruševac, in Serbia. She moved to Croatia in 1972, after being married....

Drago Pilsel

Drago Pilsel

Drago Pilsel was born in 1962 in Buenos Aires, in Argentina. He has of very mixed roots: German-Czech-Croatian on his...

Drago Marter

Drago Marter

Drago Marter was born in 1960 in Španovica, a village near to Pakrac that after the Second World War had its name...

Gordan Vukić

Gordan Vukić

Gordan Vukić was born in 1966 in Split. His family comes from Unešić, from the Dalmatian hinterland. Members of his...

Mirjana Vujčić

Mirjana Vujčić

Mirjana Vujčić was born in 1960 in Banja Luka, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the beginning of the 1960s her family...

Marko Gojević

Marko Gojević

Marko Gojević was born in 1959 in Kijevo, in the Dalmatian hinterland. During the Second World War, his father was...

Nojko Marinović

Nojko Marinović

Nojko Marinović was born in 1948 in the village of Bruška, near to Benkovac. He is one of four children and because of...

Luko Piplica

Luko Piplica

Luko Piplica was born in 1970 in Dubrovnik. His family comes from Cavtat where he has also spent his whole life. Until...

Luko Brailo

Luko Brailo

Luko Brailo was born in 1950 in Dubrovnik. After studying economics he got a job at Dubrovački vjesnik, where his...

Zdenka Golušić

Zdenka Golušić

Zdenka Golušić was born in 1943 in Sarajevo. At the age of four, she moved with her family to Zagreb. She stayed there...

Ana Raffai

Ana Raffai

Ana Raffai was born in 1959 in Zagreb. Her family legacy was based on Catholic values. During the time of Yugoslavia her...

Predrag Lucić

Predrag Lucić

Predrag Lucić was born in 1964 in Split. His paternal grandfather was a Partisan whose stories about Partisan battles...

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