Iški Vintgar, cemetery of the killed wounded near Zeleni vir

EŠD: No, but it once was! Why it was abolished is unknown!

On the rock, traces are visible that a rectangular plaque, most likely a stone one, of about 50 x 30 cm in size, can be inferred from four metal supports still in the rock, spaced 40 x 20 cm apart. There are no traces of the plaque! At the foot of the rock, which is a natural memorial, there are remains of candles, which indicates that people are aware of this burial site and the events that took place during the NOB, and despite the vandalic inscription with a political tone, they visit the burial site of eleven wounded and killed partisans. During the Italian Rogo offensive, which lasted from 13 July to 3 November 1942, (unverified claims!) Italian soldiers, who were crossing the Iška canyon, one day came across a group of eleven wounded partisans on the slopes, who were resting and waiting for transport to a partisan hospital, which was supposedly nearby - Krvavica!? Details are unknown, as it is unknown where the wounded came from and what happened to the fighters who were transporting the wounded and who were guarding the transport. The Italian army shot the wounded and buried them under this rock.

GRMID28037006101 located the burial site and marked it with an icon, but it is about 600 m to the north of the actual location of the burial site and in the description states: grave of 11 deceased wounded from 1942, who were being treated in the partisan hospital "Pod Počivalnikom". Počivalnik is the name of one of the ridges, which is 760 m away from the burial site, in the direction of south-east. Pod Smrekovcem.

Note 1:

In the book by the retired long-serving forest ranger from Mokreč Tomaž Kočarja, "Ig, Iški vintgar" (2001, p. 141), there is also a photograph of the still existing memorial plaque (it was not rectangular). The photograph was taken on 9 February 1998. He showed us the original, but the writing on the plaque is also not readable from it. On the back of the photograph, he wrote: "Monument to the fallen partisans, fighters, and wounded, who were transported during the Rogo offensive in August 1942 to an emergency hospital under Počivalnik" (this is not a literal copy from the plaque).

Source: Guide to Partisan Paths Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 70.