Franc Farčnik

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FARČNIK FRANC Wikipedia.

«Just as some other Zasavsko region local communities, also the Zagorje KS Franc Farčnik got its name after a dedicated communist. Franc Farčnik (partisan name Kristuš) was born on 30 August 1899 in Prekopa. On Wikipedia and in the Zasavsko chronicle by Roman Rozin we can read that in 1915 he was employed in the coal mine in Zagorje and soon became politically and syndicalist active. In 1920 he became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He worked as an organizer of the SKOJ, in the Union of miners' workers of Yugoslavia and in the workers' cultural enlightenment societies Ledina, Svoboda and Vesna. In 1925 he moved to France, and then politically trained in the Soviet Union, where he remained until 1936. The same year he returned to Zagorje as an instructor of the CPY. In 1937 he participated in the founding congress of the Communist Party of Slovenia in Čebinah. After the beginning of the Second World War he worked in the underground and led a political school. In November 1941 he was caught by the Gestapo. He was imprisoned in Celje, Maribor and at Borl Castle, where he died as a result of torture.»

Electronic source: https://savus.si/ks-franc-farcnik/ Local community Zagorje ob Savi.

On today's day: Franc Farčnik - Kristuš Savus, Zagorje ob Savi.