Ivan Lombar

Sistory states Name and surname: Janez Lombar.

»Lombar Ivan-Jošt, born on 4 August 1919 in Bohinjska Bistrica, a lawyer from Huj member of the regional committee of OF Kranj. On 21 March 1944, a crowd of later homefront fighters captured him and took him injured to Kranj, where he was killed on 23 March 1944. (KUVZ, fasc. 31 z-6699 in A Slovenia)« -- Silvo Grgič, Crimes of collaborators with the occupiers. Second book, The murdered activists and sympathizers of the Liberation Front and other Slovenes, Ljubljana: Association of Historians of Slovenia NOB, 1997, p. 203.

»In the Šorlijeva mill, an illegal political workers' meeting had already been held since 1941. With the help of local informers 'raztrgancev', the Germans surrounded and attacked Šorlijeva mill on Mali Rupi on 21 March 1944, when a regional conference of functionaries of KPS, SKOJ, OF, VOS and representatives of partisan technicians was taking place there. Most of the conference participants managed to escape from the enemy circle, but activists Maks Jeza - Droh, Milena Korbar - Irena, regional secretary of SKOJ, Ivan Lombar - Jošt, secretary of the regional committee of KPS Kranj, were killed.« (Albert Jakopič et al, A Guide through Partisan Routes, Ljubljana: Borec Publishing House, 1978, p. 221)