GRM near Ponikva - local cemetery, grave of the partisans, courier Alojz Strajnar

When the partisans took Trebnje in May 1944, the local committee of the Liberation Front (OF) of Trebnje moved from Blatnica hill to Odrga in the Kuntarjevo house, which was suddenly attacked by the homeguards on 11 June. Two couriers, Alojz Strajnar from Češnjevka and Jože Slak from Rožnega Vrha, were killed. The homeguards also obtained the typewriter of the local committee, as the activists could not take it with them. (source: Hudales, Zoran: Municipality of Trebnje in the NOB, page 690)

73. Alojz Strajnar, born in 1925 in Češnjevka near Trebnje, was a courier of the local committee of the Liberation Front (OF) in Trebnje. On 11 June 1944 (the date is not the same as on the gravestone!) he was captured by the homeguards and executed on Temenica (source: Documentation of the municipal committee of the Liberation Front (ZZB) of Trebnje) which is mentioned in the book Grgič, Silvo: Crimes of collaborators of the occupiers, page 310)

74. Jože Slak, from Rožnega Vrha, an activist of the Liberation Front (OF) and courier of the local committee of the Liberation Front (OF) of Trebnje. On 11 June 1944 the homeguards suddenly attacked the seat of the local committee of the Liberation Front (OF) of Trebnje, which was located in Odrga. At that time they killed him and Alojz Strajnar from Češnjevka (source - Zoran Hudales, Municipality of Trebnje in the NOB, page 690) otherwise also Grgič Silvo: Crimes of collaborators of the occupiers, page 303)