Cemetery of the Talcé, Retnje

Cemetery of 21 partisans, who were brought by the Germans from the prison in Begunja and shot here on 26 July 1942, as a retaliatory measure for the destruction of a German police car. The cemetery is marked with a monument and planting, arranged on 22 (according to another source 26) July 1962.

Originally, there was a marble plaque here.

From the monument to the monument NOB in the municipality of Tržič, Tržič: Družbenopolitične organizacije, Skupščina občine, 1981, p. 70.

Guide through partisan trails, Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 275.

EŠD 28944

"Simple visiting wife of Alojzij Hlebčar from Retenje sent a handwritten copy of her text in the tone of old folk songs to the editor of the publishing house Borec, Črtomir Šinkovc, in 1966. With a recording of her letter, in which the author says, 'I cannot remain silent, so that our partisans would not be forgotten,' it was published in TV-15, in the section Partizanska ljudska pesem, no. 11, 21. 3. 1967, p. 6. Se 66, PI 113.

Retenjsko polje

Lie, lie just field just field of the craggy land. Across the field walks a sorrowful beautiful young girl. Across the field walks, speaks and has black tearful eyes. She had a handsome young man a very handsome young man who gave his head to the fascists that is why it is so bad for her that is why her eye weeps because she has no more love left. On the field in Retnje her lover sleeps on the call to glory he does not wake.

Lie, lie just field across the field a white road goes. On the road stands a monument which reminds us of terrible days when the partisans were brought they were thrown on the road and all their lives were given for peace, love, freedom. If you pass by this road and you remember these horrors remember the partisans who here in the grave peacefully sleep They gave their lives for us for us, for peace, for freedom. Therefore, you, Gorenjski people never forget these horrors never forget your comrades – they gave themselves for us. Even if their bodies are cold Slovenia always honors them. And let the wide world know that here a beautiful flower sleeps that we were expelled our homes all burned down – that is why Retnje, dear you never forget our partisans!"

Boris Paternu, Slovenian partisan poetry, Third Book, Zaledne, Novo mesto: Tiskarna Novo mesto Dolenjska založba, Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete, p. 71.