Ihan Cemetery, Cerar Martin

Sistory states: First and last name: Martin Cerar, Father: Nikolaj, Mother: Marija, Native name: Makovčev, Date of birth: 07. 11. 1912, Place of birth: Imenje, Place of residence: Imenje, Old municipality: Moravče, New municipality: Moravče, Profession (social status): worker, Date of death/disappearance: 23. 08. 1944, Place of death/disappearance: Bišče; Country of burial: Slovenia.

Note: The date of death in Sistory (23.) differs from the date of death in the book Svet pod Taborom (25.) and in the book Crimes of the Collaborators of the Occupiers 2 (25.).

«On 25 August 1944, around half past eight in the evening, immediately in the dark, the Home Guard in Bišče attacked three partisans from the ambush. Martin Cerar-Milčinski, known as Makovčev from Imenje, who was the secretary of the party committee of the KPS Zasavje I., was killed in the process.»

(Stane Stražar, Svet pod Taborom, Kronika Ihana, Ihan: Committee for the Celebration of the 750th Anniversary of Ihan, 1974, p. 287)

»9. Cerar Martin-Milčinski, known as Makovčev from Imenje, activist and secretary of the KPS district III, Zasavje, Ljubljana district. On 25 August 1944 at 20:30, he was attacked and killed by the Home Guard from Domžale, among whom there were more than twenty from the Ihan area. (Source: Stane Stražar, Svet pod Taborom, p. 287)«

(Silvo Grgič, Crimes of the Collaborators of the Occupiers, 2nd book, Murdered Activists and Sympathizers of the Liberation Front and Other Slovenians, Ljubljana: Society of Writers of the History of the Slovenian People's Liberation, 1997, p. 52)

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