Vera Winter was born in 1923 in Glamoč, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She comes from a family of teachers. During the period of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croat and Slovenes, the family moved all over the country, as her father would get work. At the beginning of the Second World War, her family was in Zagreb. Vera Winter was a student at the time. She criticised the Ustaše government for the poverty that had stricken the people, and so she was locked up in prison in Petrinjska Street, where she spent more than a month. She was in Zagreb when the War ended. Upon earning a degree in economics and working in Zagreb for a short time, she was directed to go to Belgrade to work at the Federal Ministry. Because she was friends with a Croatian man, who was suspected of being a Soviet spy, in 1950 she was deported to Goli Otok. In 1953 she was transferred to the female camp, at the nearby island of Sveti Grgur. She was released the same year. She first talked about her experience as a prisoner on Goli Otok in 1989. She died aged 92 on 30 August 2015.