Devet talcev, Velika Ligojna

The monument represents a rectangular block - a stela made of light grey stone, measuring 1.50 x 0.40 x 0.20 m, into which the names of nine partisans (with errors: "OSEM TALCEV" was corrected to "9 TALCEV") are engraved, and an enclosed area with concrete posts and a metal crossbar, measuring 3 x 2 m. It was unveiled on 22 July 1959.

The fighters Rob, Rodič, Jager, Pelko, Udovič, Turk, Makovec and Kajič were captured on 22 January 1943 in the area of Škocjan - Šmarje in the action of 2nd Bat. MVAC and 2nd Bat. Italian Infantry Regiment COMO.

Fighters Vadnjal, Strojan and Dovč were captured on 21 January 1943 by MVAC and Italian army during the crossing of the railway line in Tlakah near Šmarje. Dovč was shot the following day, 22 January 1943 in Grosuplje, while the others (except Kajič Slavko, son of Lojzet and Marija Maček, born 5 November 1904, partizan of Gubčeva Brigade) were shot on 12 February 1943 on Čelesnik's field, not far from the current location of the monument under the settlement of Velika Ligojna.

ROB Ivan, Slovenian poet, born 17 August 1908 in Trieste, student of Slavic philology, on the terrain in Žalovči he worked as a partisan of Cankar's Brigade, editing radio reports and other propaganda material.

Grgič, Silvo: Crimes of the collaborators of the occupiers, Dol. publishing house, Novo mesto 1995, pages 80, 190, 209, 378 and 379.

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