GRAD BORL - torture chamber

In the castle of Borl were Gestapo prisons with a torture chamber between 1941 and 1943. Prisoners were initially held in farm buildings, later in farm premises. Here were first imprisoned Slovenes who had been expelled by the occupier to Croatia and Serbia, and later also members of the national liberation movement. The prisoners were tortured by the Gestapo in various ways and sent from here to the death camps, to concentration camps or to forced labor.

In the summer of 1942, a plan was made for the liberation of the prisoners. Borl was supposed to be first attacked by the Slovenj Gradec partisan unit, while at the same time the prisoners would resist. However, this action did not take place, as the preparations were betrayed and the Slovenj Gradec partisan unit was destroyed.

In 1956, a memorial room was established and a memorial plaque was unveiled on the garden courtyard.

Source: Guide through partisan trails, Ljubljana 1978.

Monuments of our revolution, Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1961, p. 207.

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