Dušan Poženel-Đuro

Rojen was born in 1911 in Bazovici near Trieste. In 1942, he completed the main preparatory work and drafted the plan for attacking partisans at Huda Jama mine. He clashed with a German soldier on Kuretnem. German Bence shot him and captured him by the knee. To avoid falling into his enemy's hands alive, he shot himself in the head.

A. Mavri, Primorski emigranti v Laškem.

»Pavla Rovan-Jana, 36-year-old activist, exiled to Serbia in 1941. Dušan Poženel was a miner at Huda Jama mine and joined the partisans as early as 1941; he fell in 1944. The author retains the manuscript text. Go 75.

Spominu Dušana Poženela

Born of rocky Kras
the nation's love has nourished you
in Bazovici during those times
people of ours sheltered you.

Hard times had dimmed your image
yet grown were your youthful wings.

The storm passed over the Kras
but our fighters' spirits it did not break.

To the north towards us you went

to seek a loaf in the deep mine shaft

and again endured, brother to brother
nor could you dampen your stubborn spirit.

On our beautiful land

foreign hordes ravaged and sowed ruin
plundering its essence.

Then as an eagle from the rocky peaks

you unfurled your proud wings

in defense of our native valleys
whose embrace filled them with safety.

Beneath you, a cohort of zealous fighters grew
who rose from poverty's depths
guidance led them on their way.

A fiery dawn in that mountain range

shone its beam upon you
quenching the smoldering ember—

the eagle's wings broke.«

Boris Paternu, Slovene Poetry of Resistance, Third Book /Behind/, Novo Mesto: Dolenjska Založba, Institute of the Faculty of Philosophy, 1996, p. 304.