Bašelj

DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT:

The monument consists of rough-hewn stones, into which a slab of white Istrian stone is embedded (the total height of the monument is 163 cm, the size of the upright slab is 78*57 cm). The inscription is relief-carved.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT:

Ignac Florjančič, born on 31 July 1906 in Visoko, was seriously wounded in the shoulder on 9 January 1945 during a clash with a Home Guard patrol near Vaškarje. He dragged himself into a nearby building, from which the enemies brought him to the courtyard, tied him up first, and then immediately shot him with a submachine gun. The locals buried him on the hill above the present-day holiday home.

At the natural bunker Vogradnik above Gradišče, a German patrol surprised Alojz Križaj from Nakleg and Jakob Javornik, born on 13 July 1903, from Trstenika. During the clash, Javornik was mortally wounded. Križaj was seriously wounded in the abdomen, but he still had enough strength to crawl on his own to the nearby partisan hospital "Košuta", where he soon died. Both Javornik and Križaj were also buried by the locals on the hill above the former holiday homes "Gamsov raj".

All three were later exhumed and transferred to their home cemeteries.

SOURCES: Memorials of the People's Liberation Struggle in the Municipality of Kranj, p. 59-60.

Guide to Partisan Paths, Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 226.

NOTE: The dates of death of the fallen fighters on the monument are incorrect.

The memorial was unveiled by the local committee of the Slovenian People's Liberation Army and Partisan Liberation Movement Bela in June 1963. It was designed according to the idea of architect Nandet Jocif.

EŠD: 15801, memorial heritage