Alojz Hrovat

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«Alojz Hrovat, a meritorious trade union organizer and pre-war communist, known especially among shoemakers and construction workers. At the beginning of the uprising, he was a member of the military-revolutionary committee for the Jesenice district, then a partisan fighter and commander of the Kokra detachment. With his comrades, he chose to shoot himself in the pit near Okroglo on 22 April 1942 rather than surrender to the occupier [..]. Once again, the Germans called on them to surrender, but they responded with even more defiant singing and defiant calls. The partisans destroyed their weapons and equipment and fired off their ammunition in the final moments. Only the last few rounds were kept; with these, six of them were shot. Stane Žagar, Jaka Rabič, Ivan Županec, Lojze Hrovat, Stane Pavlin, and Ivan Stroj fell by the dead Poznik and Smuk.» (Ivan Jan, Kokrški odred I, /The People's Liberation War under the Karawanks/, Ljubljana: Knjižnica NOV and POS 26/4, 1980, p. 176, 194)