Gomilsko, Strožer Rozalija, Amalija and Franc

Rozalija Strožer. Sistory.

Amalija Strožer. Sistory.

«CELJE 15. AUGUST 1942 […] AMALIJA STROŽER […] AMALIJA STROŽER was born on 2 July 1924 in Grajska Vasi near Prebold. As a farmer's daughter, she helped her parents on the farm. Immediately at the beginning of the uprising, she joined the liberation movement in her home town. The Germans arrested her in July 1942. Her mother Rozalija and her brothers Franc and Ivan were taken to the concentration camp Auschwitz, where her mother and brother Franc died. The younger brother and sister were sent to children's camps from which they returned.

15. VIII. 1942 My dear loved ones at home!

Please forgive me for anything that was ever wrong. Remember me in your prayers! This gives me comfort, because I know that I will be united with my and your father. With love in spirit Your Amalija Strožer

Keep a rose as a remembrance from me

The original is kept by the Slovenians shot.»

Milan Ževart and Stane Terčak [eds.], Farewell Letters of Victims for Freedom, Third Expanded and Revised Edition of the Farewell Letters of Those Shot for Freedom in Occupied Slovenian Styria, Maribor: Obzorja Publishing House, 1978, pp. 281, 282, 309.

Franc Strožer. Sistory.

«Male transport on 20. 8. 1942 (21) from Celje […] Camp number                           60345 Last name and name                   Strožer Franc Year of birth and place              1912, Gomilsko - Žalec Date of death in the camp           + 24. 9. 1942

Camp number                           60346 Last name and name                   Strožer Ivan Year of birth and place              1921, Gomilsko - Žalec Date of death in the camp            [he returned from the camp]

KL Concentration Camp Auschwitz Birkenau (Oswiecim - Brzezinka) Collection, Maribor: Obzorja Publishing House, 1982, p. 518.

Photo: Strožer Rozalija, Amalija, Franc Geneanet, Cemetery Gomilsko - Gomilsko, p. 12.