Katja Boh (1929 2008) was a Slovenian sociologist, diplomat and politician.She was born in a wealthy middle class family in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now the capital of Slovenia). Her father was an Austrian Jew who had converted to Roman Catholicism, her mother was Slovene. During World War II, she was imprisoned by the Nazis. In 1946 she got engaged to Ljubo Sirc who later became a famous economist. The same year, however, Sirc was imprisoned by the Communist regime and triled at the so-called Nagode trial. Due to Sirc's long confinement and later exile, their engagement failed. She had 2 stepchildren (Maja and Ali Boh)and a daughter Katja Boh - Cerjak from her marriage to dr. Boh.She studied sociology at the University of Ljubljana and obtained her PhD in 1974. She dedicated herself to the study of family patterns, becoming one of the leading European experts in the field.