Memorial for Jožef Kanzian in Hintergupf/Zavrh

Jožef Kanzian was born on September 2, 1927, in a Carinthian Slovenian peasant family near Abtei/Apače. In late summer 1944, he joined his already wanted father with the partisans. At the end of December of that same year, the 17-year-old suffered an accident during a confrontation with Nazi soldiers near St. Margarethen in the Rosental/Šmarjeta v Rožu. Initially, he was buried there, but in October 1945, his body was brought back to Abtei/Apače, where a monument now stands. A monument was erected at the very same spot where Jožef Kanzian lost his life during the partisan battles at the end of December 1944. It is located on a meadow next to the Hintergupf house number 9. The inscription, which is now barely legible in Slovenian, describes how he died from a bullet wound. His image is also almost entirely faded.