Marija Lovrić
Marija Lovrić was born in 1950 in Osijek, in a family that had come to Slavonia from the Dalmatian Hinterland, following the Second World War. She spent her childhood and youth in Osijek, apart from a period of seven years during which she worked in Germany. She founded a family and had two sons. Her husband was one of the directors of Pošta [the Post Office] in Osijek. In November 1991, at the time when Marija Lovrić and her young sons were in refuge in Zaprešić, three armed figures wearing Croatian Army uniforms took her husband away, and since then all trace of him is lost. In court proceedings which started many years later, those responsible for the crime were identified and in 2009 they were found guilty. Until 1994, when her husband - a missing person - was proclaimed dead and when Marija Lovrić managed to acquire certain social rights, she and her children were barely subsisting. Today, Marija Lovrić lives in Osijek with one of her sons.