CroMe interview with Ana Raffai

This female narrator was born in Zagreb in the late fifties. After a short introduction to her father, who wanted to study Theology but chose not to, because of problems with the Yugoslavian state institutions, she tells about her youth in a Catholic family during the seventies and her activities for the Institute of Theological Culture of Laymen. In 1985, she started working. She got married to a Hungarian man and they started a family. It was during that time that the war began, which brought a lot of stress and fear to her as a young mother. From July 1991 until the end of 1993 she followed her husband to Austria and Switzerland, where he found a job. Because they were pacifists and her husband objected against military service during the war, they had to be very careful each time they had to return home for new visa. They met a Catholic priest who was involved in the Peace Movement, which they kept supporting over the years, until today.