Bled, cemetery, Torkar Anton

History entry: Name and surname: Anton Torkar, Father: Anton, Mother: Marija, Date of birth: 14.06.1920, Place of birth: Ribno, Place of residence: Grad, Date of death/disappearance: 03.07.1943, Place of death/disappearance: Lipanca on Pokljuki, Burial place: Begunje.

»In the summer of 1943, a group was on Pokljuki. Part of the group went to a supply operation in Mojstrano. As all fighters did not have weapons, they primarily took those who had gone into the valley. […] During the operation, the Germans captured Batisti's Lojz from Bohinjska Bela. […] Batisti's Lojz was terribly frightened by the Germans and betrayed the location of the camp. Two days later, in the middle of the night, the Germans silently surrounded the camp and attacked the partisans with the first light. […] Among the dead and captured were people from Bohinj, Gorje, and Blejca, including Anton Torkar, Kunčič's oldest from Bled, […]« Ivan Jan – Srečko, In Pokljuk Battalion, Among Gorenjski Partisans, On the 15th Anniversary of the Uprising, Kranj, 1956, p. 117–118)

»Sports Society Bled, Fallen athletes and wrestlers […] Torkar Anton […]« (Miloš Rutar, Memorials for fallen sportsmen, Participate and Win, Slovenian Sportsmen in NOB, Ljubljana: Borec Publishing, p. 457)