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Sadeta Dizarevic










Sadeta was born in 1956 in Luka, a town in the Srebrenica municipality.  She was only able to receive a formal education for four years.  Sadeta later moved to Stedra, married, and had three children.  Until the outbreak of war, she was a dedicated housewife and mother to two daughters and one son.

Sadeta’s husband was killed in 1993.  Fortunately, she and her children managed to take his body out of the besieged area and give him a respectable burial.  Sadeta and her daughters fled to Tuzla.  Her son attempted to get to safety through the forest, and is still missing.

In 1995, Sadeta began working at BOSFAM.  Following the war, both of her daughters left Bosnia.  One lives in Germany and the other lives in the Netherlands.  They are both married and have families, but it is difficult for Sadeta to be so far away from them.

Despite having to face life in postwar-Bosnia alone, Sadeta manages to be one of the most humorous individuals at BOSFAM.  

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