Gornja Bistrica, memorial plaque to victims of fascism

A committee OF was formed for Upper and Middle Bistrica in February 1944, with August Doma as secretary, and the members of the committee were Martin Krapec, Angela Doma, Jožko Kustec and Ivan Horvat. The area gave a great blood tax. In addition to the national hero Jakob Molk-Mohar, the memorial plaque mentions five other locals. Jožef Vučko, a peasant boy, employed in Leoben, escaped in June 1944 from there with a Russian woman who was in the same factory doing forced labor. Both joined the Styrian partisans. In the autumn of 1944, Ivan Žunič-Radovan met him in Stari Žagi on Kočevsko, where he was a partisan in the Levstik Brigade. He was assigned to the group of Ferda Godina, which in late autumn 1944 went to Prekmurje. As Godina ordered the Russian woman to leave in Ljubno with the regional committee for Styria, he remained there alone. But soon both of them headed on their own towards Prekmurje and unexpectedly appeared at the courier station TV-15 in Kogo and then at the crossroads tried to cross and swim across the Mura. The river was not friendly to them and Vučko drowned. They later found him frozen by the Mura. The Russian woman, Angelo Pilipenko from Kiev - partisans called her "Pino" - were later captured by Hungarian soldiers and handed over to the collaborators, who shot her on January 15, 1945 near Ljutomer.

The merchant August Doma was arrested in the afternoon of May 9, 1944 as the first in the wave of mass arrests as a collaborator of NOG and then secretary of the OF committee. On that day, Hungarian soldiers arrested courier Danilo Gomilščak, who was intended to go to August Doma for the taking over of propaganda material. Doma was tortured in the prison Murska Sobota and then taken to the prisons in Čakovce, where on June 22, 1944 he was sentenced at a sudden military court. He was sentenced and interned in Germany, where he died in May 1945 in the camp Dachau.

Martin Doma, a merchant from Upper Bistrica, joined the partisans on the Pohorje, where he fell as a fighter of the Pohorje battalion. He was buried in Gradec.

Jožef Ifko, a farmer from Upper Bistrica, was arrested as a collaborator of NOG in the May raids of 1944. After interrogations and torture, he was sentenced on June 22, 1944 at a sudden court and sent to Dachau, where he died in 1945.

Adam Horvat, a farmer, did not want to return to the Hungarian army. Soldiers tracked him down and with the help of informers discovered him on February 13, 1945. On that day, all three Bistrices were surrounded, many men were arrested and tied and taken to Beltinci. Horvat was shot on the Bistrica cemetery in front of all the arrested and before the common grave.

The plaque was unveiled by the municipal committee of Beltinci NOV ZZB on July 22, 1958.