Gornji Grad, Prislan family

Joseph Prislan. Sistory.

France Prislan. Sistory.

Ivana Prislan. Sistory.

Boris Prislan. Sistory.

»VICTIMS OF WORLD WAR II FROM GORNJI GRAD [..] I. Fallen Partisans [..] - Prislan Boris, father Joseph, born 7. 10. 1919 in Gornji Grad, mobilized into the German army in spring 1943, in September 1943 joined the partisans, captured on 14. 3. 1945 above Šokat and shot, merchant, driver, from Gornji Grad [..] II. Victims of the occupier [..]

• Prislan France, father Joseph, born 12. 11. 1914 in Gornji Grad, in 1942 fled to Vienna, where he was arrested, shot as a traitor on 15. 8. 1942, merchant, from Gornji Grad
• Prislan Iva, father Joseph, born 26. 3. 1909 in Gornji Grad, arrested in July 1942, taken to Auschwitz, where she died on 21. 3. 1943, innkeeper, from Gornji Grad
• Prislan Joseph, father Joseph, born 14. 7. 1907 in Gornji Grad, in 1942 fled to Vienna, where he was arrested, shot as a traitor on 15. 8. 1942, teacher, from Gornji Grad«

Zoran Tratnik, Gornji Grad during World War II, Zbornik, Celje: Museum of Contemporary History, 2000, pp. 173, 176.

»PRISLAN Boris – Prislan family Joseph’s son was born on 7. October 1919 in Gornji Grad. He came from a craftsman’s family. He attended school in Ljubljana and Maribor and trained as a merchant. However, he did not work in this field, but instead worked as a driver in Zabukovica. He did not like the German occupier, but he could do nothing when he was forcibly mobilized into their army in spring 1943. However, the same year in September, he joined the partisans and became a telegraphist in the Prešeren brigade. In March 1945, he went with a group to Gornji Grad and the Germans captured them in the forest above Šokat and shortly afterwards shot them as traitors.

PRISLAN France – Prislan family Joseph’s son was born on 12. November 1914 in Gornji Grad. After the elementary school in Gornji Grad, he attended the merchant school in Šoštanj and then trained as a merchant and worked in the family shop. He joined the resistance against the occupier as an activist and propagandist within one of the Gornji Grad cells. Soon he realized the Germans were watching him, so he fled to Vienna, where he was arrested in July 1942 and taken to Celje. Although they tortured him, they could not extract any confession from him. As a traitor, he was shot on 15. August 1942 in Celje.

PRISLAN Iva – Prislan family Joseph’s daughter was born on 26. March 1909 in Gornji Grad. After elementary school, she completed the domestic science school in Ljubljana and worked in the family shop and inn. She used her position during the war to collect support for the partisans and inform them about what she had heard in the inn. Because of betrayal, Iva was among those arrested by the Gestapo on 6. July 1942. She was taken to the prison in Celje, then to the camp in Borl near Ptuj and finally to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died on 21. March 1943.

PRISLAN Joseph – Prislan family Joseph’s son was born on 14. July 1907 in Gornji Grad. He studied at the gymnasium in Celje and at the teachers’ college in Maribor. The war caught him as a teacher in Črna near Prevalje. The Germans dismissed him and he returned to Gornji Grad, where he joined the resistance within one of the Gornji Grad cells as an activist and propagandist of the OF. Because of suspicion that his activities had been betrayed, he went to Vienna with his brother France. There, the Germans discovered them, arrested them and in July 1942 brought them to the prison in Celje. In the Old Cellar, they were tortured and forced to confess, but to no avail. He did not reveal anything and was shot as a traitor on 15. August 1942.«

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.Image: Letonja - Prislan Jože, Franc, Iva, Boris, Geneanet, Gornji Grad Cemetery, p. 14.

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