Ihan, cemetery, K[e]ržan Feliks

Sistory states: First and last name: Feliks Keržan, Father: Janez, Mother: Katarina Date of birth: 09. 05. 190, Place of birth: Ihan, Place of residence: Ihan, Old municipality: Ihan, New municipality: Domžale, Profession (social status): farmer, Date of death/disappearance: 22. 12. 1944, Place of death/disappearance: Gusen/Mauthausen, Place of burial: Gusen/Mauthausen, Country of burial: Austria.

»61310 Kržan Feliks, 9. 5. 1900, Ihan, farmer – 21. 1. 1944, Ihan, died 22. 12. 1944, Mauthausen« (France Filipič, Slovenci v Mauthausenu, Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1998, p. 390)

»KRŽANOVA ARETACIJA. On the morning of 13th January 1944, as had happened several times before, partizan Franc Vidmar-Silvester announced himself at Feliks Kržan-Tablar’s house, saying he wanted to cut him down and shave him. His wife Angela also visited him at that time.

In the afternoon, when the lady placed the tablecloth on the table, the inhabitants of the house noticed, just over a hundred meters away from the house, a column of twelve Ihan weaponsmiths walking on foot towards the settlement. It seemed as though everything would go smoothly. Suddenly the Germans started shooting at the forest. Exactly because of these shots, partizan Silvester decided to leave Tablar’s house. He climbed directly into the forest. The weaponsmiths followed him to the forest on the hillside, but further they did not dare to go. Therefore, they became even more suspicious of the Tablar family. Two foreign women were in the house at that time – already mentioned Angela Vidmar and partizanka Ivanka Kokalj-Zdenka, who had been on sick leave at Tablar’s for several months. All the partizan literature was quickly burned. First, the Germans took the father and kept him guarding while they searched the house and looked for partisans. When they legitimised him in front of the house, the 'vahmajster' said with a fat face: 'This is Feliks Kržan!' Everyone was most afraid of what would happen to the partizanka. Fortunately, she was not suspicious at all, not even when she asked if she could go home. [..] Angela Vidmar and Feliks Kržan were then taken to Domžale. [..] Vidmar and Kržan agreed on the way that they would say nothing about the escaped partisan. Despite the torture and suffering, they kept their silence during the interrogation in Kamnik.

After ten days, Vidmar was taken to Begunje, [..]

Feliks was sent to Begunje for six weeks after a ten-day interrogation in Kamnik, from there to Dachau, where he died on 12th December 1944 according to official notice. Miha Gostič, who was with him in the camp, said that he was shot by a Gestapo man because he could not lift a stone with his foot, and that was already quite some time before the stated date. The Germans threatened the locals that they would be expelled, but they were not.«

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FELIKS KRŽAN-Tablar, born on 9th May 1900. He was an activist of NOB. He was arrested on 13th January 1944. He died on 12th December in the year in Mauthausen. (Stane Stražar, Svet pod Taborom, Kronika Ihana, Ihan: Odbor za praznovanje 750-letnice Ihana, 1974, p. 279, 292)

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