Grave of the hanged Slovenian couriers Pavel Lupšina Triglav and Stanko Zorko Murčija, Kraljev Vrh, Croatia

Opposite the grave of Ivan Krkač is a common grave containing two previously unknown fighters, buried in 1944. The grave was built in 1965.

In it are buried two Slovenian couriers, Pavel Lupšina Triglav and Stanko Zorko Murči, who maintained contact with the Zagorska partisans, but who were hanged in Jakovlje. They were captured in Zagorska Selica together with Antun Sladović from Zagorska Selica and taken to Pregrada in custody. From the prison in Pregrada they were taken to Jakovlje, where they were hanged in revenge near the Solarsko forest on 17 July 1944. They were buried at the site of the hanging, and after the war, in 1946, their remains were exhumed. Barica, Sladović's wife, took and buried Sladović's remains in the cemetery in Zagorska Selica, while the remains of Triglav and Murči were buried in Kraljevo Vrhe. In their honor, a memorial monument was erected in 1965. The Boračka organization from Jakovlje was not able to find their real names, but only knew their partisan names: Triglav and Sutla (although it was actually Murči). On the grave it is written that two unknown fighters of the NOV were buried there, hanged in Jakovlje in 1944. Through my research, I established the names of both hanged couriers - Pavel Lupšina, born in 1919 in Dolenja Vasi near Brežica, and Stanko Zorko, born in 1923 in Zverinjak (today Gornji Lenart) near Brežica.

Source: Šimunković, M. (2019). Naslijeđe revolucije – Vodič kroz spomen obilježja posvećena Narodnooslobodilačkoj borbi u zaprešićkom kraju. Zaprešić: Proksima i UABA Zaprešić.

https://www.academia.edu/63673918/Naslije%C4%91e_revolucije_Vodi%C4%8D_kroz_spomen_obilje%C5%BEja_posve%C4%87ena_Narodnooslobodila%C4%8Dkoj_borbi_u_zapre%C5%A1i%C4%87kom_kraju

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