Bobovek - Memorial of the NOB

Area where three partisans fell during World War II; granitic memorial in the shape of an irregular pyramid (113 cm x 105 cm x 23 cm) with a red five-pointed star on top and an engraved inscription in red. Author: unknown.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT: The memorial was erected in memory of the following fallen partisans:

Luka Svetelj-Alojz, born 18.10.1900 in Šenčur, activist of the OF, after his arrest he was imprisoned in the Slovene Carniola prisons. On 14.6.1943, he was shot by Gestapo agents near this memorial.

Alojz Snedic-Bor, born 25.6.1912, joined the III. Slovene Carniola Detachment at the end of 1943. Due to betrayal, he was captured and shot on this area on 19.5.1944.

Janez Šenk, born 19.12.1911, was a 44-year-old partisan of the Kokrška Detachment, captured on 18.1.1945, tortured and killed in the Slovene Home Guard prisons on Zlaté Polje in Slovene Carniola (note: military unit "Alarmkompanie Oberkrainer Selbstschutz). The Slovene Home Guards transported the already dead body on 20.1.1945 near Bobovka, where he was buried in an unmarked grave in the forest.

Sources:

Monuments of the People's Liberation Struggle in the Municipality of Slovene Carniola, Slovene People's Liberation Army and Partisan Army of Yugoslavia, Slovene Carniola Municipal Committee, Kranj 1975, p. 108.

Guide to Partisan Paths, Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 227.

Jan, Ivan, Torn Curtains: The Occupier and the Gorenjska Slovene Home Guard, 3rd edition, Ljubljana: Society of Writers of the History of the People's Liberation Struggle of Slovenia, 1994, p. 260.

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The memorial was erected by the Local Committee of the Slovene People's Liberation Army and Partisan Army of Kokrica, it was unveiled in 1968.

The monument was restored in 2018, but it was vandalized in January 2019, the perpetrators were motivated by the red star.