Graveyard of the Fallen, Trebnje

The memorial represents a tomb with a stone sarcophagus, on which are carved over 180 names of known and unknown fallen fighters and victims of fascist violence. It is precisely in the centre of the local cemetery in Trebnje, where it was placed in 1963.

The authors of the memorial are architects Jože Zamljen and Pavel Miklič.

On 15th October 1944, the volunteers of the 32nd and 39th battalions succeeded in breaking through the heavily weakened 2nd Zidanškov brigade, which had come from Štajerska to Dolenjska via Šlandrovo. On the Trebnje cemetery, the volunteers of the 32nd battalion succeeded in surrounding a group of partisans from the 2nd Zidanškov brigade. When these partisans ran out of ammunition, sixteen of them were captured, tortured and then killed. The intelligence service of the 4th home guard battalion acknowledged the killing of the prisoners, as they wrote: "The 32nd battalion captured quite a number of partisans, the prisoners were not dealt with for security reasons."

To all the named individuals, the commander of the Main Staff of NOV and POS Franc Rozman - Stane issued the award on the day before. The volunteers shot the awards into the faces of the partisans and cut their throats.

Grgič, Silvo: Crimes of collaborators of the occupiers, p. 341/342.

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