Gornji Grad, Šebenik-Mahtig Frančiška

Frančiška Šebenik. Sistory. date of birth: 28. 12. 1883, place of birth: Bočna, military status: Civilian, date of death: 2. 10. 1942, place of death: Maribor, place of burial: Gradec, country of burial: Austria, cause of death: Talec - shot, perpetrator of death: German (occupational) units

«VICTIMS OF WORLD WAR II FROM UPPER GRAD […] II. Victims of the occupier […] - Šebenik Frančiška, father Matija, born in Purnat 28. 12. 1883 in Bočna, married in Upper Grad, 11. 9. 42 arrested, shot as a partisan (in Maribor) 2. 10. 1942, farmer and innkeeper, married, mother of three adult children«

Zoran Tratnik, Upper Grad during World War II, Collection, Celje: Museum of Modern History, 2000, p. 177.

ŠEBENIK Frančiška – Prodnikova The daughter of Matija Purnat was born on 28th December 1883 in Bočna. With her husband Franc Mehtig, with whom they had five children, she learned the craft of baking in Upper Grad, which she continued to do after her husband's death. In her second marriage with the blacksmith Alojz Šebenik, she also had five children in Dol Na Produ. After the occupation, she actively supported the resistance movement and carried food and other supplies to the partisans in a basket. She was also betrayed and the Germans arrested her on 13th September 1942. During interrogations in Celje's Old Piskar, she bravely admitted that she provided food and clothes to the partisans, but did not involve anyone else in her activities. From Celje, she was taken to Maribor, where she was shot on 2nd October 1942 as a partisan.

Electronic source: https://zb-nob-zgornja-savinjska.si/predstavitev-zrtev-nacisticnega-nasilja-in-padlih-borcev-nob/zrtve-s-podrocja-gornjega-gradu/ Access: 18. 9. 2025.

Photograph: Šebenik Frančiška, Geneanet, Cemetery Upper Grad, p. 14.