Gedenkort for Elisabeth Fritz in Petschnitzen/Pečnica

Elisabeth Fritz, vlg. Kauz, was born on 4 July 1880 in Petschnitzen/Pečnica near St. Jakob im Rosental/Šentjakob v Rožu. She was the owner of the Kauz-Keusche. Her own nephew denounced her to the Gestapo for "unethical motives", which led to her being deported to the Gestapo prison in Klagenfurt in May 1943 and shortly afterwards to the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück. She died on 15 September 1943 after severe mistreatment. On 15 September 2021, exactly 78 years after Elisabeth Fritz's death in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, a memorial and remembrance site was inaugurated in Petschnitzen with the involvement of the mayor and the Slovenian cultural association jepa. The memorial site consists of a memorial cross with a bench and two memorial plaques in immediate proximity to the now dilapidated Kauz-Keusche in Petschnitzen, where Elisabeth Fritz lived.