[1] Born in Croatian family in Prilep, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day North Macedonia) in 1921, Štefan graduated in Krk, Croatia in 1939.
[citation needed] During the Second World War she lived in Karlovac by her uncle Lujo Štefan, with whom she run actions of liberating and saving Jews of Nazi-puppet NDH prosecutions.
These groups of authors depicted Serbs as a genuine "genocidal nation" whose collaborators during WWII, with the blessing of the Serbian Orthodox Church, cleansed Serbia from Jews and committed much worse crimes than the Ustaše.
[3] According to John K. Roth, in her work From Fairy Tale to Holocaust, Štefan falsely alleges that Serbia ran an independent state during the Second World War (the country was under German military occupation).
[4] Štefan advocated the unproven theory[5] that the Jasenovac concentration camp was used by Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav communist regime to imprison political prisoners after World War II.