Few days ago my fellow citizen Stipe Juricev came to me with a question: "Mary, do you happen to have an aunt in America?" I was surprised that Stipe asks me something like that.
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How the "lost sister" was found, or aunty, or to put it this way, how Davorka found her family, said Mary Bandl from Vodice for Slobodna Dalmacija, her cousin, daughter of Davorka's sister Mira. The search of family Vlahov for the long lost sister turned into incredible human story with happy ending. They already lost every hope and and settled with the fact that they will never find them and that she is probably not among the living. Then, the miracle happened. The family searched for their Davorka over the internet for decades in the former state and in the independent Croatia. There were no more information about them since. Seventy years ago, Davorka's family knew that Mario and Klara Antic (who had no children of their own) emigrated with little Davorka from Zadar to Italy out of fear, since the then communist rule took over their liqueur factory in nationalization, their villa where they lived in, and all citizen rights, declaring them class enemies.Īfter staying for two years in Italy, Antic family, together with Davorka, who they accepted as their own child, went to live in USA in 1954, and that was the last information about them. Her parents haven't seen or heard about little Davorka ever since she left to Zadar, now late Ivan and Krizanka and sisters Mira, Mileva and brother Frane Vlahov, who are all now in their late years.