Graves and memorials to the fighters of NOV and the victims of fascism at the old cemetery in Trbovlje.

Source: Trbovlje, Pomniki našega boja, p. 77.

On the old cemetery there was a memorial PADLIM ZA SVOBODO. When the cemetery was moved in the 1970s, the memorial was not relocated to the new site. On the new memorial, only the names of the fallen were copied...........................

On the southern wall there were 63 individual graves with 102 buried fighters NOV on the former municipal cemetery in Trbovlje. All were arranged in a row, as individual graves with identical commemorative plaques attached to the cemetery wall and a central larger burial site with a central commemorative plaque. The graves of the fighters are also mentioned in various literature: Vodnik po partizanskih spomenikih, Založba Borec 1978 (“On the old cemetery, near the building of the municipal assembly, a common burial site of Trbovlje revolutionaries was arranged”) and Krajevni leksikon III, DZS 1976, p. 412 (“S. from the municipal assembly, the cemetery is on the Brods, where there is a row of graves of fallen fighters NOB, among others, the grave of the national hero Alojz Hohkraut”) In the 1970s, a new cemetery was built for the town of Trbovlje near the settlement Gabrsko. For unclear reasons, part of the cemetery with the graves of the fighters was abandoned and transformed into an ordinary park. The cemetery wall with the graves was demolished. The burials were not carried out, so the remains of the fighters are still buried at the same place. On the site of the partisan graves, a bench with a staircase in the shape of an amphitheatre was made. Here, those who have not yet been moved to the new cemetery do not have any memorial placed. Their names are only inscribed on the memorial to all the fallen in NOV, in the commemorative park of the new local cemetery in Gabrsko.