Dušan Poženel-Đuro

Born in 1911 in Bazovica near Trieste. In the summer of 1942, he carried out the main preparatory work and planned the partisan attack on the Huda Jama mine. At Kuretno, he fought with the Germans. German Bence shot and hit him in the knee. To avoid falling into the enemy's hands alive, he shot himself in the head.

A. Mavri, coastal emigrants in Laško.

«Pavla Rovan-Jana, a 36-year-old activist, expelled in 1941 to Serbia. Dušan Poženel was a miner at the Huda Jama mine and joined the partisans already in 1941, falling in 1944. The author preserves the handwritten text. Go 75.

In Memory of Dušan Poženel

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The rocky Kras gave birth to you the people's sorrow embraced you when in Bazovica at that time

the blood of our people was spilled.

Hard times carved your face but your young wings grew.

The storm raged over Kras but our oaks were not broken.

To the north you went to seek

in the deep mine your born bread and again you suffered, brother with brothers but your defiant spirit did not falter.

On our beautiful land

foreign hordes rushed in and covered it in darkness our holy places were trampled.

Then, like an eagle from the Kras cliffs you spread your proud wings

in defense of our native land which our blood has drenched.

Beside you, in the strong battalion a company of loyal fighters grew who rose from the depths of suffering

and were led by revenge.

The glowing dawn on that hill

spread its pale light when your heartbeat ceased –

the eagle's wings were broken.»

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Boris Paternu, Slovenian Poetry of Resistance, Third Book /Zaledne/, Novo mesto: Dolenjska založba, Scientific Institute of the Faculty of Arts, 1996, p. 304.