Dolenji Logatec, Vilar family

Terezija Vilar. Sistory. date of birth: 4. 9. 1892, place of birth: Dolenji Logatec, military status: Civilian, date of death: 16. 4. 1944, place of death: Gorenji Logatec, place of burial: Dolenji Logatec, cause of death: Killed, perpetrator of death: Black Hand

Danica Terezija Vilar. Sistory. date of birth: 25. 4. 1920, place of birth: Dolenji Logatec, military status: Civilian, date of death: 16. 4. 1944, place of death: Logatec, place of burial: Dolenji Logatec, cause of death: Killed, perpetrator of death: Black Hand

»27. VILAR Danica, daughter and 28. VILAR Terezija, mother, born in 1892. They were the wife and daughter of a pharmacist from Logatec. On the night of 16 April 1944, members of the Black Hand broke into their house and searched for the father, who had been hidden in a bunker and escaped the next day. Instead of him, they killed the mother Terezija and the daughter Danica. (Source: List of female victims of the Black Hand's violence in the RO ZZB; Jože Vidic, Following the Footsteps of the Black Hand, pp. 510-511)«

Silvo Grgič, Crimes of the Collaborators of the Occupiers, 2nd book, Killed Activists and Supporters of the Liberation Front and Other Slovenians, Ljubljana: Society of Writers of the History of the Slovenian People's Liberation, 1997, Library of NOV and POS, vol. 89, p. 365...................................

Karol Vilar. Sistory. date of birth: 10. 12. 1918, place of birth: Dolenji Logatec, military status: Activist of the OF, date of death: 23. 6. 1942, place of death: Ljubgojna, place of burial: Dolenji Logatec, cause of death: Execution by military or special court, perpetrator of death: Italian occupying units

»With a large force, on 23 June 1942, they carried out the shooting of eight partisans in Horjul. The command of the Sardinian Grenadiers Division ordered a squad of 50 men from the third battalion of the Black Shirts and at least 200 grenadiers for guard duty, and the first battalion of the first regiment was assigned to take control of Lesnica Hill, where they thought partisans were, and to monitor the area around Horjul. They shot: [..] and Karol Vilar (Dolenji Logatec, 1918). They shot them because they did not investigate within a certain period those who justified seven local traitors on Drenov Hill and in Horjul, including the mayor of Horjul.«

Janez Kos, Gramozna jama, Ljubljana: ČZDO Komunist, TOZD Komunist Ljubljana and Zavod SRS for the Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage, 1982, p. 17, 18.

Photograph: Vilar Terezija, Danica, Drago Geneanet, Cemetery Dolenji Logatec, p. 4.