Idrijske Krnice, Memorial to Two Beheaded Partisans

The memorial is located on the hill above the road and is set on a stone base, having the shape of a pyramidal block with a raised plaque on the front side. The memorial is built of stone, and the inscription on the plaque is carved.

S. Petelin in his book Vojkova brigada wrote about the witness's account of the incident of Alojzije Tušar: «One was a young boy and they took him with them. Two were tortured in the cell at Sedej. They slashed them with a knife, pulled their hair, beat them with the head against the wall, and stabbed them with a small sharp knife in the eye. The tortured person was beaten by every German or Belogardist who passed by. They tortured them from eleven in the afternoon until five in the evening, and then they still led them alive to the house. When they were still a few meters away from the steamboat, where their memorial is now, a Belogardist told them to go faster, and one of the partisans replied that he could not. The Belogardist then grabbed one of them by the neck and placed his head on the floor, where they one after another beheaded him with a plank (a tool for processing timber). Then they went into the house, took a long table, and placed the head on it, inserting cigarettes into their mouths. On a piece of paper they wrote: «Here they have freedom» and left the note with the heads on the table. The German executioners left behind a document. The entire process of beheading was photographed. The pictures, which were later seized from a dead enemy soldier, are kept in the Municipal Museum in Idrija.»

Date of unveiling: 11.8.1952

Photo: Miloš Kermavnar

Monuments of our revolution, Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1961, p. 250.

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