As a Serbian, whose parents had been killed, little Zorka was placed in a camp. The Jastrebarsko Children’s Concentration Camp for predominantly Serbian war orphans was run by Ustasha guards and Catholic nuns. Over the years, some of the children managed to escape the worst fate by being adopted. This happened to Zorka too – one day she was adopted by an Ustasha officer, Slavko Dasović, from Zagreb. After a year spent in the camp, she did not even remember her name. When asked about it by her “future Dad”, she replied: “97” (her camp number).
She testified: “I was born on 27 January 1937 in the village of Kruhari in the vicinity of Sanski Most. I was named Zorka. My surname is Delić. When I was adopted in Zagreb, I was named Zorica–Marija Dasović. One time, I didn’t know the date of my birth. I was told I was born on 10 April. It was the date and day when the Independent State of Croatia was established. It is interesting how I was ‘’changing’’ religion. I was born as a Serb of the Orthodox religion. In the process of adoption I became a Croat of the Catholic religion. When I was married, they wrote that I was a Yugoslav who had no religion. The last birth certificate which I got in Sanski Most, which belongs to the B&H Federation, was saying that I have no religion and nation.” (Cited from the book “I was saved by having sweet eyes”: http://jadovno.com/arhiva/zorka-delic-skiba-en.html)
After the war, in 1948, her older sister managed to locate her in Zagreb with help from the Red Cross.