Ig, cemetery, Japelj Uršula

Sistory states First and last name: Uršula Japelj, Father: Mihael, Mother: Uršula, Place of birth: Mihatova, Date of birth: 12. 10. 1895, Place of residence: Iška vas, Old municipality: Ig, New municipality: Ig, Profession (social status): seamstress, Date of death/disappearance: 16. 05. 1944, Place of death/disappearance: Kozlerjeva gošča (Barje), Place of burial: Ig.

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Iška vas

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Japelj, Urška - Mihatova, born 12. 10. 1895, father Miha, seamstress, Iška vas; already from 1941 an activist of OF, in her house the first partisan wounded were treated, her son Janez was an organizer of the national liberation movement in the villages under Krim, the Home Guard arrested her at home and killed her in Kozlerjeva gošča on 16. 5. 1944.»

Ferdo Gestrin, List of members, activists and victims of OF, The World under Krim, 2nd, revised edition, Ljubljana, Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2016, p. 311.

»[under the photograph of Urška Japelj]

Urška JAPELJ, who was killed on 1. May 1944 by members of the 21st Home Guard unit on Matenski travnik near Kozlerjeva gošča […]

28. JAPELJ Urška from Iška vas, born in 1895, seamstress. On 1. May 1944, she was killed by the Home Guards from Barje under the leadership of Franjo Fraklja-Skalar on Matenski travnik near Kozlerjeva gošča.

(Source: Dr. Makso Šnuderl, Fascist Home Guard Terror, p. 17; Jože Vidic, In the Footsteps of the Black Hand, p. 420; Dr. Ferdo Gestrin, The World under Krim, p. 197)«

Silvo Grgič, Crimes of the collaborators of the occupiers, 2nd book: Killed activists and sympathizers of the Liberation Front and other Slovenians, In Ljubljana: Society of Writers of the History of the Slovenian People's Liberation, 1997, p. 127, 128.

»On the same day as Šušteršič, the seamstress Urška Japelj was arrested in Iška vas. Her son Janez Japelj was a political commissar of the VDV (State Security Army) division. Her brother was also a partisan. For the Home Guards, this was sufficient reason to sentence her to death. […]

Let us once again look at the list of people who on 1. May 1944 at ten in the evening were killed by Skalar's Home Guards in Kozlarjeva gošča: […]

3. Japelj Urška, seamstress, 49 years old, mother of a partisan political commissar of the division;«

Jože Vidic, In the Footsteps of the Black Hand, Ljubljana: Založba Borec, 1982, p. 418, 419 [photograph of Urška Japelj], 420, 421.