Franc Bajt and Bogomir Lukman, under Blegoš

Memorial plaques at the graves of the fighters of the Poljanska četa (Poljan Company), Franc Bajt and Bogomir Lukman, who fell on August 4, 1942 at the Ožbirje borders, accessible from the village of Jelovica.

In the enemy offensive at Blegoš at the beginning of August 1942 against the units of the 1st and 2nd group of detachments, the Poljan Company managed to break through the encircled Blegoš and move towards Malenski Vrh on August 4. Many fighters fell at the Ožbirje borders, Bajt and Lukman took refuge in a natural rocky shelter, but the Germans discovered them and shot them.

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Data on the fighters who fell on August 4, 1942 at the Ožbirje borders:

Franc Bajt - Bojan, born on June 27, 1920 in Ljubljana, a clerk, joined the partisans in May 1942, a partisan, a fighter of the Poljan Company.

Bogomir Lukman - Bogo, born on August 17, 1917 in Glinca near Ljubljana, joined the partisans in May 1942, a partisan, a fighter of the Poljan Company.

Source: Stane Krapež, ed., Monuments of the People's Liberation Struggle in Škofjeloško, Ljubljana: Borec, 1986, pp. 160-161.

Link to the website: http://zbnobskofjaloka.weebly.com/jelovica.html