GORNJA RADGONA-Memorial plaque for fallen firefighters in NOV

Those who opposed fascism included also numerous members of fire brigades, and this was also the case in the Radgona area. Three members of fire brigades fell in Radgona, among them Maks Korošec, who was connected to the OF by Ivan Nemec-Vojko already in 1943. In May 1943, he was a member of the district committee of the OF for the area of G. Radgona and T* Radenec, and in August he became a member of the district committee of the OF for Ljutomer and G. Radgona. He participated in sabotage actions, the mobilization of new recruits, and in the establishment of local OF committees. On 30 November 1943, the Germans arrested him and took him to the Ljutomer and then to the Maribor prisons. As a partisan, he was shot in Zreče on 9 March 1944. Among the names we also find the name of courier Franc Horvat, who was brutally murdered by the Vlasovists on 10 March 1945 in Polic. The memorial plaque was unveiled on 22 July 1958.

Source: Pomniki NOB v Slovenskih Goricah in Prekmurju, Drago Novak, Ivo Orešnik, Herman Šticl, Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota, 1985

Po "Sistori.si" Maximilian Alexander Korošec, born 28.09.1913 in Gornji Radgona, Jakob Kampuš, born 24.04.1918 in Gornji Radgona, fell in Pirešica and Franc Horvat, born in Gornji Radgona.