Idrija, Doprsni kip partizanske zdravnice Pavle Jerina Lah

Dr. Pavla Jerina Lah (1915–2007) is a legendary partisan nurse, after whom a hospital was also named which operated on the Idrija region during the Second World War.

In 1941 she began working in OF. In 1943 she became the leader of the partisan hospital Pavla, which was named after her. She received a variety of highest honours: the Partisan Memorial Medal in 1941, in 1996 she received the Silver Commemorative Medal of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia with the following justification: on the occasion of the eighty-year anniversary and for her merits in the hardest times of the Second World War, especially in the partisan hospitals, and for her work after the war. She also became an honorary citizen of the municipalities of Idrija, Cerkno and Logatec. In 2010, a statue of hers was also erected in the Health Home of Idrija.

https://www.primorske.si/2010/11/28/pavla-ne-bo-pozabljena

Date of discovery: 20.11.2010