Memorial Plaque for Jože Kokot

Jože Kokot was born on 18 September 1923 as the eldest son of a Carinthian Slovenian family in Köstenberg. In 1942, the eleven-member family was forcibly resettled and had to perform forced labor. Probably due to unauthorized contact with prisoners of war, Jože was deported to the concentration camp Mauthausen in September 1944. From there, he was briefly sent to the forced labor subcamp at the Loibl Pass, and then back to the main camp Mauthausen. There, he was hanged on 25 September 1944. In the porch of the church in Oberdorf near Köstenberg/Kostanje, to the right of the church door, a memorial plaque remembers the 21-year-old victim of Köstenberg. On the light grey stone plate, in the form of a poem in Slovenian, Jože Kokot is remembered. In the upper part, a photo of him is attached.