Đina Beritić lived in Dubrovnik (Yugoslavia, today Croatia). Her husband was a sea captain and often traveling, so Beritić moved to Zagreb to her son Tihomil, who was studying medicine there.
As of April 1941 Zagreb belonged to the “Independent State of Croatia.” In 1942, Đina Beritić was asked by her Jewish friend Blanka Fürst to take care of a Jewish child. The two-year-old Dina Büchler was related to Fürst and had been smuggled out of a camp. The child’s mother was interned and her father had been murdered. Đina Beritić took in the child and Blanka Fürst joined a partisan unit.
Between 1942 and 1945, Đina Beritić cared lovingly for the child. Her son Tihomil Beritić also helped out. They had Dina Büchler baptized to disguise her identity. After liberation in 1945, Blanka Fürst picked up Dina Büchler, who was then five years old. The two of them immigrated to Israel in 1948. They remained in contact with Đina Beritić.
In 1994, Đina Beritić was honored by the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.