Gornji Grad, Volovšek Ivan

Janez Volovšek. Sistory. date of birth: 8. 5. 1924, place of birth: Gornji Grad, military status: NOV in POS, military unit, rank: VI. SNOUB Slavka Šlandra, 2. bat., date of death: 24. 1. 1944, place of death: Črna, country of burial: Slovenia, cause of death: Killed, perpetrator of death: German (occupational) units

»VICTIMS OF WORLD WAR II FROM GORNJI GRAD […] I. Fallen partisans […] - Volovšek Ivan, father Ivan, born 8. 5. 1924 in G. Gradu 17, mobilized in 1942 into German army, fell ill, went on leave home and then joined the partisans on 30. 12. 1943, as a partisan wounded, captured and with other partisans burned on 24. 1. 1944 in some house on Koroškem, peasant son, samski«

Zoran Tratnik, Gornji Grad during World War II, Collection, Celje: Museum of Recent History, 2000, p. 174.

»VOLOVŠEK Ivan – Doberžev Son Ivan was born on 8th May 1924 in Gornji Grad. He worked on the family estate and occasionally helped other farmers as well. In 1942 he was mobilized into the German army. From Mittelwald in Bavaria he was sent on an operation to Partenkirchen. In July 1942 he was home. Upon returning he jumped off a train in Šmartno ob Paki, but did not get in contact with the partisans. In order to protect his parents, he again reported to the Germans, went to the eastern front, from where he came back home with forged documents. Now he got in contact and joined the Šlandrova brigade. During the attack on the post in Črna he was wounded. With other wounded he stayed at Podbrežnik, where the Germans discovered them and on 24th January 1944 they burned them alive.«

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: Dobrževi - Ivan, Geneanet, Cemetery Gornji Grad, p. 6.

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