Memorial Plaque for Valentin Lausegger at the Cemetery Windisch Bleiberg/Slovenji Plajberk

At the front wall of the cemetery near the entrance gate to the cemetery Windisch Bleiberg, there is a memorial plaque that commemorates Valentin Lausegger and Roki Lausegger. The 1912 born Valentin in Windisch Bleiberg worked in the local mine and joined the partisan resistance during the NS regime. Towards the end of 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the Dachau concentration camp. The memorial plaque notes that he died there in 1945; in fact, he died after being transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp on 4 April 1945. His brother Roki fell in 1944 as a soldier of the German Wehrmacht in France.