Blaž Ažman, Kropa

Blaž Ažman was born on 23 February 1922 in Kropi. His father was a carpenter master, an invalid from the First World War. After primary school, he trained as a mechanical keymaker at the nail and ironworks cooperative in Kropi. In 1941, he completed the industrial metalworking school and passed the exam for an assistant. He had contacts with the first partisans on Vodiška planina at Jelovica, and distributed propaganda material. With his brother Jožet, he went on 10 August 1942 to the Selška detachment of the Gorenjski odred on Vodiška planina at Jelovica, exactly at the time of the German raid against the partisans. During the breakthrough of the detachment on 11 August 1942, Blaž fell near Mošenjska planina. His brother Jože brought him from there to Špik under Kroparski gori and buried him. The locals (Po poti spominov) maintained the grave.

«On the rocky ledge on Dražgoška gora, he was shot by a descending German mountain hunter with a rifle. The dead body was taken under the rock Špik in Kroparski gori and buried.» The partisans who returned home were arrested by the Germans. (Gorenjski partizan)

A small metal plate-medal with an inscription, surrounded by a coat of arms, attached to the rock.

The grave of Blaž Ažman, a member of the Selška detachment of the Gorenjski odred, fallen on 11 August 1942 near Mošenjska planina. The grave is marked with a bronze coat of arms, and in 1948 the KO ZB NOV Kropa built it into the living rock. The plate was cast in the foundry of Železarne Jesenice.

Po poti spominov: radovljiški zbornik, Radovljica: Občinska konferenca SDZL, 1990, p. 125.

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Gorenjski partizan, p. 145.