Gorica, Central Cemetery, Grave of 174 Partisans

LSI 2: 130 (image) Grave of 71 known and 103 unknown fighters. Among them are also 6 fallen in the Nanoška battle. The partisans who fell in the Nanoška battle in April 1942 were buried in the cemetery in Gorica and in 1972 reburied in a common grave of resistors against fascism. On the plaque are the names of only two fallen in the Nanoška battle, namely Emilo Puntar (as Milko Pintar) and Anton Vičič (as Antonio Caucci). The false identification done by the captured comrades and also the superficiality of the Italian authorities contributed to the fact that the fallen do not have properly marked graves or their names are incorrect or corrupted. Buried there are also Ivan Sancin, Ivan Kreševič, Jože Dolenc and Leopold Pupis, among the 103 unknown resistors who were killed by the fascist regime without knowing who they were.

Source: Primož Plahuta, Monuments of the Nanoška battle, svobodnabeseda.si/casopis-SB-97-november-2023 page 7