Gorenje, Primožič Franc, Lojzka and Martin

Franc Primožič. Sistory.

Alojzija Primožič. Sistory.

Martin Primožič. Sistory.

»LIST OF VICTIMS AND LETTERS […] On 23 June 1942 […] Alojzija Primožič, born 25 May 1904, caregiver, Paška vas, Šmartno ob Paki«

Stane Terčak, Celjski Stari pisker, Ljubljana: Založba Borec, 1976, p. 144, 146, 148.

»18 July 1942 - with Borla […] 11846 Primožič Franc, 28 September 1899, Paška vas, farmer - 30 May 1942, Paška vas, died 14 December 1942, Mauthausen«

France Filipič, Slovenes in Mauthausen, Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1998, p. 196.

»CELJE 23 JUNE 1942 […] ALOJZIJA PRIMOŽIČ […] MARIBOR 21 MAY 1942 […] MARTIN PRIMOŽIČ […] [text to the left of the photograph]

MARTIN PRIMOŽIČ

was born on 29 October 1906 in Paška vas. He trained as a blacksmith and set up a blacksmith workshop in his home village. In Paška vas, he joined the liberation movement. The Germans arrested him in May 1942. His sister Alojzija was shot by the Germans on 23 June 1942. His brother Franc died in the concentration camp Mauthausen.

Dear brothers Miha and Karl

I have been sentenced to death and when you read this I will already be dead. I don't know what has happened to Franca Lojzo, please take care of my children if you can. Whatever is yours will be his, if you can now and later. I beg you and I greet you for the last time brother Martin I was at confession You can have the clothes and smaller items, whatever is needed to be retrieved is all in the book, the money is at home 450 RM to Gestapo in Celje and 260 RM to the tax office

Original kept by brother Mihael Primožič.«

Milan Ževart and Stane Terčak [eds.], Letters of Victims for Freedom, Third Expanded and Revised Edition of the Letters of the Victims of Freedom Shot in the Occupied Slovenian Styria, Maribor: Založba Obzorja, 1978, p. 156, 162, 183.

» »FALLEN AND VICTIMS In the former municipality of Šmartno ob Paki, fell in the fight against fascism as fighters, victims, internees in Nazi camps and victims of fascist violence: […] PAŠKA VAS […] Alojzija Primožič, born 25 May 1904, caregiver, shot 23 June 1942 in Celje. Franc Primožič, born 28 September 1899, farmer, died 3 December 1942 in Mauthausen. Martin Primožič, born 29 October 1906, blacksmith, shot 21 May 1942 in Maribor.«

Milan Ževart, Stane Trčak, From the Rising to the Victory, The National Liberation War in the Šaleška Valley and Šmartno ob Paki, Published on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of liberation in memory of the fallen fighters and victims of fascist violence, Union of Associations of Fighters of the NOV Municipality of Velenje, Maribor: Založba Obzorja, 1966, p. 285, 287.

Photo: Primožič Franc, Lojzka, Martin Geneanet, Cemetery Gorenje - Šmartno ob Paki, p. 10.