Idrijske Krnice, Partisan Sanitation Memorial

The memorial represents a rectangular granite slab erected on a natural rock. The inscription is carved into the slab.

S. Petelin in the book Vojkova brigada writes: «…someone has indeed given the Germans away, where one of the posts of the hospital «Pavla» was. From Idrija two German columns set out towards it. The partisan sentry Pavle Tušar noticed one of the columns and ran towards the post to warn his comrades of the danger. The Germans from the other column spotted him and shot him. The sentry fell, but the shots alerted the partisans in the hospital to the danger. In the last moment they withdrew with all the wounded. One of the nurses was indeed wounded by the German soldiers and even captured, but she escaped. Nevertheless, they got two boys (there they healed their wounds, which they had received while playing with a hand grenade, which exploded on them) and Anica Prebil, who had been shot in Erjavčeva house. This was not the only victim, which is why the Germans accused Erjavč of supplying the hospital with meat. Furious, because the wounded had escaped with the personnel, they locked up Matevž Erjavč with his wife, the shepherd, a woman who had helped with weaving at Erjavčevi, and another householder, whom they had brought with them, killed them, and set the barn on fire. Only the old man escaped.»

Date of the event: 15.6.1944

Date of unveiling: 8.9.1974

Photo: Miloš Kermavnar

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