Gradišče na Kozjaku

Common grave of two partisans who fell in the area of Gradišče during a clash between the fighters of Lackov's unit and German soldiers. In 1962, an 8 m high granite memorial with dedication to the fallen fighters of Lackov's unit was erected at the grave.

EŠD 17556

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Details of the event are provided by the source:

Marjan Žnidarič, Spominska obeležja Lackovega odreda, Maribor, 2007, p. 51

The commander of Lackov's unit received on 31 January 1944 the information that a group of Gestapo agents was present at the Holant house in Gradišče. The Lackov fighters decided to surprise and destroy the Gestapo group. They gathered a patrol of twenty fighters from the 1st battalion, which was supposed to be led by the battalion commander's deputy. The leadership of the group was voluntarily taken over by the battalion commander's deputy, Dragutin Babić, who led the attack on the Gestapo agents differently than the unit commander had ordered. The result was that during the clash at Holant, which lasted about an hour, three partisans, the battalion commander's deputy Dragutin Babić, the liaison Slavko Bedina, and the machine gunner Jože Jerbič fell, while one partisan was lightly wounded. Four Gestapo agents also fell.