Homec, cemetery, Burja Valentin

Valentin Burja, Sistory: Date of birth: 13. 08. 1922, Place of birth: Nožice pri Domžalah, Place of residence: Nožice pri Domžalah, Old municipality: Domžale, New municipality: Domžale, Occupation (social status): worker, Date of death/disappearance: 11. 02. 1945, Place of death/disappearance: Homec, Country of burial: Slovenia.

»Valentin Burja-Zdravko was born on 21 August 1921 in Nožice in the Domžale municipality. They had a small farm. His father was a temporary mason. Valentin attended a grammar school. During the war, he was employed in the warehouse of the LGW factory in Kranj. He joined the partisans in the autumn of 1943, joining the Šlandrovo brigade. His sister Marija and his brother Mirko were also partisans. He was killed on 11 February 1945 at seven in the evening near the railway station Homec. He went to the location in Homec through deep snow, but his life was cut short by a home guard unit. At that time, he was the local secretary of SKOJ.«

Jože Vidic, Sedem krst za Ronkarjevo družino, Ljubljana: Založba Borec, 1978, p. 373.

»90. BURJA Valentin-Zdravko, born on 21 August 1921 in Nožice pri Domžalah, worker. Activist of OF and secretary of the local committee of SKOJ in Domžalah. The home guard unit killed him on 11 February 1945 at seventeen near the railway station in Homcu, while he was going there for a meeting. (Source: Jože Vidic, Sedem krst za Ronkarjevo družino, p. 373)

Silvo Grgič, Zločini okupatorjevih sodelavcev, 2nd book, Umorjeni aktivisti in simpatizerji Osvobodilne fronte ter drugi Slovenci, Ljubljana: Društvo piscev zgodovine NOB Slovenije, 1997, p. 46.

Note: On the gravestone and in Sistory, the year of birth is listed as 1922, whereas in the books Sedem krst za Ronkarjevo družino and Zločini okupatorjevih sodelavcev, it is listed as 1921.

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