Apače

Text on the old memorial:

At this place rest the fighters of the II. group of detachments, fallen on 25 August 1942 in the fight for the freedom of the Slovenian people. Glory to the fallen heroes.

The fallen partisans were the company commissioner in the Kranjčev battalion Jože Vidergar - Senko and the fighter named Škorc. They were the first two fallen partisans in the Koroška region. The II. group of detachments found itself in the Koroška region during an attempt to break through from Dolenjska to Štajerska, after it had failed on the southern side of the Karavanks. The partisans established a camp above the farm Lesjak in Robežah. In the clash, it is said that 10 Germans fell. Vidergar was from Polje near Ljubljana, and he adopted an illegal name after his daughter. Wounded in the abdomen, he committed suicide with a bomb. The first name on the memorial is Jožef Kanzian, the eldest son of Lesjak, who fell on 28 December 1944 at Zavrhu. There, on the memorial plaque, it said:

Jožef Kanzian, p. d. Lesjak's son in Robežah, lost his young life here, which was taken from him by a bullet fired by a Hitler Youth boy. Born 2 September 1927, fallen 28 December 1944.

Fallen for freedom, 22-24

Islands. Apaches