Grave of the 7th Corps Kočevska Poljane

At the burial site of Kočevske Poljane, on the right side of the road towards Črmošnjica, there is a cemetery and memorial to 219 fallen fighters of the VII Corps of the national liberation army (hereinafter NOV) and partisan units of Slovenia (hereinafter POS), who fell in the vicinity of Poljane or died en route to partisan hospitals.

The cemetery is approximately 12 x 8 m. In the centre is a terrace made of cut granite slabs, with two staircases leading to it. On each side of the terrace is a 3 m wide cemetery, covered with turf and planted with ornamental shrubs. On the terrace is a 2.5 m high four-sided prism with an engraved floral motif and a five-pointed star.

In 2010, BOBEN MILANČEK 1943 – 1945, a child who was wounded in his mother's care during the homefront attack on Jamo near Dvor in 1945, died during transport to a partisan hospital in the Medicova House in Podturn and was buried at the burial site in Kočevske Poljane.

The author of the cemetery and memorial is architect Miloš Lapajne. It was designed by the Main Committee of the association of fighters and the Municipal Committee of the association of fighters of Novo mesto in 1959. It was renovated by the Association for the Maintenance of Partisan Cemeteries in Rog and workers of Kamnoseštva Jakša from Krška in October 2005.

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Guide through partisan trails, Ljubljana: Založba Borec, 1978, p. 124.