Gramozna jama

By the decision on the shooting of the first victims on 24 April 1942, signed by the commander of the XI Army Corps General Mario Robotti and the high commissioner Emilio Grazioli, the first victims – Ernest Eypper and Mirko Gašperin – were shot on 1 May 1942 at the military firing range on Dolenjska Street in Ljubljana. In Gramozna Cave, the first victims were shot on 13 May 1942, with the first youth victim being Milan Šušteršič. More than 124 victims fell, among them the organizational secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia Tone Tomšič, painter Hinko Smrekar and a number of other activists of the OF. At the entrance to Gramozna Cave stands a tall obelisk, the work of architect Vinko Glanz, who also designed the complex in 1955; it was opened in 1957. In 2003, Gramozna Cave, with its memorial complex and monument to the victims, was declared a cultural monument of local importance.

Sources:

Pomniki naše revolucije, Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1961, p. 56.

Benedik, Franc… [et al.]. Vodnik po partizanskih poteh. Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 16.

Pavle Lešnjak and Djuro Šmicberger, Uporni Bežigrad: delavsko gibanje in narodnoosvobodilni boj v občini Ljubljana-Bežigrad: 3. zvezek, Ljubljana: OK SZDL Ljubljana-Bežigrad, 1989, pp. 146-147.

Decision on the declaration of Gramozna Cave in Ljubljana as a cultural monument of local importance, Uradni list RS, no. 76/2003, Ljubljana 2003. http://www.uradni-list.si/1/content?id=44728

Photo: Domen Kaučič

List of victims of Gramozna Cave, Wikipedia

There are 176 names listed on Wikipedia.

On the monument, 5 unknown persons and 141 names are listed. Of these, 8 names are not listed on Wikipedia.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gramozna_1_feb_maj_42.JPG

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