Kata Sertić was born in Saborsko, on September 26, 1959. During the Second World War a lot of men from Saborsko were in the ustashe army, a lot of people from the village were killed or ended up in Bleiburg. Some members of Kata Sertić's family were in the ustashe army as well. Before the Homeland War she had been working as a radiology engineer in Slovenia. In 1988 she moved to Sarajevo with her daughter and husband. At the time when the war started in Croatia, she was working at the Radiology Institute of the Koševo hospital. She left Bosnia in 1991 and came back to Croatia. She started to work as a nurse in the Ogulin hospital. When the Croatian army established its own medical service, she stayed in the medical service on Kapela, at the battlefield. She had been in the army until 1996. Today, she lives in Saborsko.

Date Submitted: 2012-08-28