Graves of the Talcev, Nova vas nad Dragonjo

Graves of the five executed in Nova vas above Dragonja on 2 October 1943 during the German offensive.

On 2 October 1943 the German army began a large offensive on the Primorje and Istria. In this offensive they carried out the operation «Cleaning of Istria». The offensive spread in two directions, part of the German army went towards Portorož, while the other part moved into the interior of Istria towards Hrvaška. The Germans, in cooperation with local fascists, killed and burned villages, shooting at unarmed civilians and men, who had surprised them while working in the fields or at home. They killed everyone they saw, old people, women and children, throwing live people into burning houses… They also burned and killed in the nearby villages on 3 October. In this terrible offensive on 2 and 3 October 1943 the Germans killed more than 200 people in the Slovene Istria and burned 55 settlements.

So on 2 October 1943 the Germans took five young men from Nova vas above Dragonja and executed them on Plovanija, and they were:

Perič Ivan, Pucer Jožef, Grižon Albin and Bolčič Franc, four young men barely 18 years old and one 20 years older, Rojac Matija.

Monuments and plaques on the graves completely restored in the year 2016.

Bojan Česnik: Five graves for five young men. Svobodna_beseda okt. 2023, p. 5