Hrušica - Memorial to the Victims on the White Field

Architect Branko Simčič 1966. The statue was designed in 1981 by the sculptor Jakob Torkar. On 24 concrete blocks, the names and birth dates of the fallen are engraved on metal plaques, two per block.

It is located at the site of the shooting of 45 partisans, who were shot by the occupier on 27 July 1942 as retaliation for the attack of the Cankarjev battalion on a Gestapo car.

Guide through partisan trails, Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 192.

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»Milanka Ivanovič-Janša, Aleksandra, 18-year-old member of the autumn city committee of SKOJ. The text was written in 1942 on Hrušica in memory of the partisans, who were shot on 26 July 1942 on Belem field near Hrušica. The author keeps a typewritten copy of the text. Šo 81.

Spring 1942

Across the bristling rows through fields alone bloomed spring. On the window, a red rose bloomed and with it played the golden light. But right in that budding growth on that sunny golden day like a bitter tear came a drop of dew. O! Homeland! Look once more at their faces for tomorrow the black earth will cover them. With sorrowful eyes they look across the bent pipes into the spring day. Command. Shots sharp echo in the narrow valley rebounding from the steep walls of Mežaklje they return to them, who are dead and have fallen silent for you. The clouds have hidden the sun among the light, gentle greenery splashed the soft blood. In the white town already hang letaks and a long list is on them. Silently the young girl reads them, full of dark dreams. But then a moment full of fear is torn from her mouth by a cry: My brother! The sun sets blood-red. And the warm wind blows through the fields a silent prayer through the graves of the shot partisans whispers.«

Boris Paternu, Slovenian partisan poetry, Third Book, Zaledne, Novo mesto: Tiskarna Novo mesto Dolenjska založba, Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete, p. 88.