Dr. Vladimir Bračič, Cirkulane

Memorial plaque on the façade of the multi-purpose hall in Cirkulane, dedicated to dr. Vladimir Bračič, educator, in the school year 1958/59 principal of the Ptuj gymnasium and Slovenian regional geographer-researcher of social conditions in Halozah and Podravje. He was a participant in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army, a socio-political and cultural worker, a multiple editor of the Journal of History and Ethnography, organizer of the Maribor higher education studies first rector of the Maribor university and a meritorious professor of the Faculty of Education in Maribor. Source: Slovenian Identity in Ptuj.

»Mirko Polomski, freedom fighter

In Polom, Vladimir Bračič was reached by the Italian occupation in the spring of 1941. The Italians did not close the Slovenian schools, so he remained in the position of a teacher for the current school year and then in the year 1941/42. However, the occupiers' pressure and violence against the Slovenian civilian population soon led him, as a conscious Slovenian patriot, to the realization that he would have to resist. After the school in Polom was destroyed, he went together with his fellow townsman Franček Kozel from Halozah, who had already been illegally living with him for several months, to the partisans in July 1942, where he became an informant under the partisan name Mirko Polomski. Interestingly, the name Mirko Bračič, under which many knew Vladimir Bračič was used as a partisan name by another partisan, Miran Bradač, a partisan commander who fell in battle in December 1943.

Already in September 1942, Vladimir Bračič was captured and sent to an internment camp in Italy. For half a year he spent in a camp near Padua, after which he was transferred to the notorious camp on the island of Rab. After the capitulation of Italy, he returned to Slovenia in September 1943 and joined the units of the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army on the Primorska region. He remained there until the end of the war, serving as a political commissar of the 19th Slovenian People's Liberation Shock Brigade Srečko Kosovel, then as a commissar of the non-commissioned officers' school of the 30th Division, an instructor in the Italian brigade, a public prosecutor in the 17th brigade of Simona Gregorčič, and a commissar of the non-commissioned officers' school of the 9th Corps.«

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»In Cirkulane, we remember dr. Vladimir Bračič with two public memorials: a memorial plaque, unveiled in 1999 on the multi-purpose hall, and a bust unveiled ten years later, at the primary school. In 2009, they also designed and marked Bračič's mountain trail, which mainly follows the municipal border. In 2019, on the centenary of his birth, we also set up a memorial room in his birth house in the center of Cirkulane. We ceremoniously handed it over on September 27, 2019, on Vladimir Bračič's birthday.«

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