Memorial Plaque for NS Victims from Zell-Pfarre/Sele-Cerkev

In memory of NS victims from Zell Pfarre/Sele fara, the community erected a memorial plaque. Under the shelter of the church, at the main entrance on the right, 25 individuals with different fates are named specifically. Some were resistance fighters, such as Franc Gregorič, Feliks Malle and Valentin Dovjak, for example, who can be attributed to the Green Cadres (deserters and Wehrmacht refusers who took refuge in the forest), others such as Fortunat Robelek fought as partisans. However, most of the victims were civilians who supported the resistance fighters and were arrested in the context of the betrayal of the Hlipovčnik bunker, such as Johann Užnik or Peter Kelih. Others, such as Helena Dovjak, died after the forced deportation of the Carinthian Slovenes in 1942 in Anhalte or concentration camps. Why exactly these 25 victims are named on the plaque is not clear.