Memorial to the expelled from Slovenia, Lazarevac

In the year 1975, a memorial, a work of Miloš Vastič, was unveiled in Lazarevac in gratitude to the Lazarevčans, who in World War II in 1941 accepted 300 Slovenians from the sixth transport of Slovene refugees to Serbia. Forty-four years after its unveiling, representatives of the municipality of Lazarevac, the municipality of Trbovlje, and the Slovene embassy reached an agreement on its restoration. On October 17, 2019, Bojan Sindjić, mayor of the municipality of Lazarevac, Maja Krajin, deputy mayor of the municipality of Trbovlje, and Roman Weixler representative of the Slovene embassy in Belgrade, and in the name of DIS Iztok Tolar, together with members of the music school Marko Tajčević, unveiled the restored memorial with a short ceremony. This commemoration signifies gratitude to Slovene refugees for the inhabitants of Lazarevac, where the refugees found new temporary homes. It has been confirmed that there has been long-term good cooperation between the municipalities of Lazarevac and Trbovlje.

Photo source 1,2 GEMinfo, 3 VESTNIK DIS 129-130