Graveyard of the Talcé, Spodnje Radvanje

A memorial obelisk made of dark stone commemorates hundreds of victims who were shot in April 1945, just before the end of the war. The memorial, unveiled in 1955, was designed by architect Jaroslav Černigoj.

Monuments of our revolution, Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1961, p. 229.

Arih, Aleš. Monuments of war, revolution, freedom: Art gallery Maribor, May 1985. Maribor: Institute for the Protection of Monuments, 1985, no pagination.

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"In April 1945 the Germans killed many more victims in Maribor than they announced with their final proclamation about the shooting of partisans. When they emptied the Maribor prisons, they transported numerous political prisoners to Spodnje Radvanje under Pohorje. There they divided them into groups and shot them quickly on the local firing range. The victims were placed on the edge of the bomb pits, so that they fell directly into the graves. After liberation, in June 1945, during the clearing of the bomb pits, they found 104 bodies, although there were more victims, but at that time they could not examine all the bomb pits due to hygienic reasons. In Spodnje Radvanje the Germans killed about 200 people. Most of the victims lie where the Gestapo shot them, some were buried in a common grave at the Radvanjsko cemetery.

These victims of fascist violence stand to the left of the old firing range at the cemetery memorial. The memorial is also placed at the Radvanjsko cemetery."

Guide through partisan paths, p. 524

Lists of victims are not available, nor were all of them exhumed and officially buried.