Ivan Završnik, Pokopališče Šmartno ob Dreti

Ivan Završnik, Sistory: title: Šmartno ob Dreti, date of death: 01. 06. 1944, place of death: Razgorca, cause of death: armed confrontation, cause of death: German (occupational) units

»[text under the photographs] Fallen in battle near Razgorca on 1 June 1944: Ivan Završnik from Valog (left) and Ivan Rahten-Andrič from Šmiklavža (right). [..] SS police officers resisted angrily, but they could not hold their positions. After half an hour they had to retreat. Unfortunately, several partisans were wounded in the meantime. At first, no one knew from where the deadly bullets were coming. Only after a careful inspection of the battlefield did they notice one of the police officers who had climbed a tree and was hiding there, firing deadly shots from above. This was therefore a repetition of something similar to what happened four days earlier in Maršje Grabno. Only when they forced the sniper down from the tree did the partisans stop firing, but by then five partisans had already been wounded. Among the fallen were Ivan Završnik from Valog near Šmartno ob Dreti, [..] LIST OF BORCEV TOMŠIČEVE BRIGADE DURING THE PERIOD FROM 13 JULY 1943 TO 1 APRIL 1944* [..] Završnik Ivan-Ivan * 1926 Šmartno ob Dreti 24 t 1944 Črnova«

Franci Strle, Tomšičeva brigada 1944, Maribor: Založba Obzorja, 1995, pp. 449, 576, 679.

Photograph: Ivan Završnik, Geneanet, Cemetery Šmartno ob Dreti, p. 4.