Franc Ksaver Meško in Jakob Soklič

" 1941 were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the transit camp Šmartno near Slovenj Gradec. He later wrote that they were mistreated there only because they were conscientious Slovenes, among them were (apart from him) Jakob Soklič and Karel Destovnik – Kajuh. He survived more than two months in prison and the same year (1941) the Nazis deported him to Croatia and then to Bosnia. In Palah in Bosnia and Herzegovina he received a spiritual service, but at the end of 1941 he was captured by the militia. In February 1942 he managed to cross Bosnia and Serbia into the Ljubljana region and took refuge in the monastery in Stična, where he awaited the end of the war. " (Franc Ksaver Meško, Obrazi slovenskih pokrajin)

" 1941 he was arrested and imprisoned for three months. He was exiled to Croatia, but escaped to Stična and led the fleeing priests there. In 1945 he returned to Slovenj Gradec." (Jakob Soklič, Obrazi slovenskih pokrajin)