Golče 3

Plaque commemorating the courier partisan hideout, unveiled in 1959.

EŠD 141

«Gestapo, based on received information, was well prepared for the reckoning with the collaborators of OF, who helped partisans and organizers of resistance against the occupier. Their revenge campaign began on 24 April 1942, when a larger group of German police and Gestapo officers surrounded Golče. They were led by the traitor Hernaus. They arrested Jožet Golobar, who had a well-organized partisan hideout in his home, where partisans, couriers, and political workers Alojz Hohkraut, Vera Šlander – Lojzka, Polde Eberl – Jamski, Vili Vresk – Urban, Ivan Beja – Bela, Jože Gričar – Metod, Rudi Knez – Silas and others gathered. A few days earlier, Jamski had left him, having spent some time in the house recovering from a broken leg that still ached.

The Gestapo officers tortured Golobar in front of his family. They tied him up in a hay net and hung him on a tree, beating him senseless with rifle butts. After a thorough investigation and ransacking of the house, they took him to Jablana in a self-driving vehicle. They also severely tortured him in Gestapo prisons in Trbovlje, but he did not break and did not betray.

On the same day, they also arrested Janez Razpotnik from Vežnice and his brother Bernard. Jožet Golobar and Bernard Razpotnik were shot on 13 May 1942 in Maribor, while Bernard was taken to a concentration camp in Silesia, where he died after a few months.12»

(Boštjan Grošelj, Pomniki viharja /Odmev pretresljivih časov/, Šentlambert: Krajevna skupnost, 2022, p. 9, 10)

Motto: Couriers123