Grave of Four Fighters, Sv. Vrh

In a common grave, four partisans who fell near the village in 1944 are buried. The tombstone, a stone block with names, was erected in 1977. EŠD 19652

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Franc Erpič. Sistory. date of birth: 24. 7. 1911, place of birth: Tržišče, military status: NOV and POS, military unit, rank: Political Commissar, date of death: 8. 8. 1944, place of death: Sveti Vrh/Mokronog, place of burial: Sv. Vrh pri Mokronogu, cause of death: Shot, perpetrator of death: Home Guards

»8. ERPIČ Franc, born in 1910 in Upper Mladetiče, activist of OF already in 1941. As a member of the district committee of OF, he was killed by members of the black hand on 30 May 1944. (Source: Zoran Hudales, Municipality of Trebnje in NOI3, p. 728)«

Silvo Grgič, Crimes of the collaborators of the occupiers, 2nd book, Killed activists and sympathizers of the Liberation Front and other Slovenians, Ljubljana: Society of Writers of the History of the Slovenian People's Liberation, 1997, Library of NOV and POS, book 89, p. 78.

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Ljudmila Erpič. Sistory. date of birth: 11. 9. 1922, place of birth: Tržišče, military status: Activist OF, military unit, rank: member of the local committee Mokronog, assistant of the head of NZ, date of death: 8. 8. 1944, place of death: Gorenje Lakence, place of burial: Sv. Vrh, cause of death: Shot, perpetrator of death: Home Guards

»9. ERPIČ Milka, born in 1922 in Upper Mladetiče near Tržišče. She was an activist of OF and a member of the local committee of OF, when she was shot by the Home Guards on 9 August 1944. (Source: Zoran Hudales, Municipality of Trebnje in NO13, p. 728; Documentation of the municipal committee of ZZI3 Trebnje)«

Silvo Grgič, Crimes of the collaborators of the occupiers, 2nd book, Killed activists and sympathizers of the Liberation Front and other Slovenians, Ljubljana: Society of Writers of the History of the Slovenian People's Liberation, 1997, Library of NOV and POS, book 89, p. 78.

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Franc Florjančič. Sistory. date of birth: 29. 11. 1908, place of birth: Trebelno, military status: NOV and POS, military unit, rank: head of NZ, date of death: 8. 8. 1944, place of death: Gorenje Lakence, place of burial: Sv. Vrh, cause of death: Shot, perpetrator of death: Home Guards

»Florjančič Franc, partisan, head of the National Protection in Mokronog. He was born on 29 November 1908 in Vrh above Mokronog. On 9 August 1944, the Home Guards captured him and several other partisans at Vrh and killed them 'on the run', as stated in their report.«

Silvo Grgič, Crimes of the collaborators of the occupiers, 1st book, Killed outside of battle and in other ways, wounded and captured Slovenian partisans, Novo mesto: Novo mesto Press, Dolenjska Publishing House 1995, p. 87.

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Stanislava Repovž. Sistory. date of birth: 4. 7. 1920, place of birth: Upper Mladetiče, military status: Activist OF, date of death: 8. 8. 1944, place of death: Gorenje Lakence, place of burial: Sv. Vrh, cause of death: Shot, perpetrator of death: Home Guards

23. REPOVŽ Slavka, born in 1922 in Upper Mladetiče near Tržišče, activist of OF. On 9 August 1944, she, Franc Florjančič and Milko Erpič were arrested by Home Guards from Tržišče in the village of Vrh near Mokronog. They were cruelly tortured and dismembered. Among the criminals was also a Home Guard who boasted about this to the villagers. (Source: Documentation of the municipal committee of ZZB Trebnje and Novo mesto)Silvo Grgič, Crimes of the Occupiers' Collaborators, 2nd book, Killed Activists and Supporters of the Liberation Front and Other Slovenians, Ljubljana: Society of Historians of the Slovenian People's Liberation Army, 1997, NOV and POS Library, vol. 89, p. 78.

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Photo: Fallen for Freedom in 1944, Geneanet, Cemetery of St. Vrh near Mokronog, p. 4.