Gorica pri Raztezu, Habinc Tonček

Zvonimir Jožef Habinc. Sistory. date of birth: 6. 7. 1926, place of birth: Gorica, military status: NOV in POS, military unit, rank: Kozjanska četa, commander of courier post S 30, date of death: 29. 3. 1945, place of death: Šmartno pri Celju, place of burial: Kostanjek, cause of death: Armed conflict, cause of death: German (occupational) units

«ANTON HABINC - ISKRA [fotografija] son of Anton and Eme, born in Planinc, was born on 6 July 1926 in Kostanjek. He attended primary school in Zdolah and secondary school in Krško, but did not complete secondary school due to the war. He became involved with the national liberation movement already in 1942. Due to his resistance activities, he was arrested and imprisoned by the Germans. From prison, he went to Šmarca in Gorenjsko and worked in a bakery in his aunt's home. However, he stayed there only for a few months. In July or August 1943, he joined the partisans, specifically in the Kamniško-Zasavsko unit. Already in the autumn of 1943, he came to the home territory and became a fighter of the Kozjanska četa. In the spring of 1944, he was commander of the TV post above the Roman Toplici. In the battle with the Germans, he fell as commander of TV post 33 in Šmartno in Rožna dolina near Celje. His comrades buried him on the edge of the village near the Vasko sign on 29 April 1945. His body was transported to the home cemetery in October 1945.»

Šribar Slavko, Škaler Stanko, Fallen in the fire of revolution, Krško: Zveza ZB NOV Občine Krško, 1971, p. 190, 191.

Photograph: Habinc Tonček Geneanet, Cemetery Gorica near Raztez, p. 5.