Gozd, Sušnik Rajko

Rajmund (Rajko) Sušnik. Sistory.

»Victims by parish and locality […] Smrečje in Črni […] z. š.                                                   2. surname, name, local name                SUŠNIK Rajko, LOGARJEV h. št.                                                 04 date of birth                                   24. 08. 1934 date of death                                 10. 06. 1944 place of death                                  Mala planina circumstances of death                      accident with weapons cause of death activity of the victim social status                                 child«

Milan Šuštar [ur.], Collection of Victims of the Second World War in the Municipality of Kamnik, Kamnik: Municipality, 2004, p. 13.

»The author has already mentioned in the subsection Events during the War on p. 148–149, based on written and oral sources, described in detail the consequences of the downed American bomber, which crashed on 29 May 1944 on Mali planina in the Kamniške Alpe. The plane was shot down above Zagreb, its target being Austria. The rescue of the surviving crew members is described in detail, who had timely parachuted from the plane near Kamnik. Unfortunately, no one remembered that on 3 June 1944, two children of the local population died in the wreckage of the mentioned plane, namely eight-year-old Janez Prodnik from Kregarjev and his ten-year-old cousin Rajko Sušnik. The children, with knowledge of their mothers, joined the local population going to St. Primož velet, asking them to ring the bell for the deceased Stranjan. On the way, they met two local people going to Velika planina. The children decided to go with them to Mala planina, driven by curiosity to see the remains of the crashed plane. While inspecting the wreckage, they encountered an explosion, which took their lives. I wonder if there was really no one nearby who could have prevented the children from exploring the wreckage of the plane. Rozi Prodnik received the murdered man Viktor in December 1943 from the Kamniška Bistrica valley, and on 3 June 1944, she also received the dead son Janez from Mala planina. A painful fact, difficult to understand.«

Angelca Turnšek, On the Book of Tomaz Kočarj Kamniška Bistrica - Bistriški gozd1, in: Kamniški zbornik, XVIII, Municipality of Kamnik, 2006, p. 390.

Photograph: Sušnik Rajko Geneanet, Cemetery Gozd - Stahovica, p. 10.