Elizabeta "Lizika" Jančar (nom de guerre Majda) (27 October 1919 – 20 March 1943)[1] was a Slovene Partisan.
Lizika Jančar | |
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 Lizika Jančar | |
| Born | 27 October 1919 |
| Died | 20 March 1943 (aged 23) |
| Cause of death | Shot |
| Nationality | Slovene |
| Other names | Majda |
| Occupation | Espionage |
| Known for | People's Hero of Yugoslavia |
Life
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Lizika Jančar was born in Maribor as the daughter of a railway worker that had also worked as a miner in Germany.[2] Jančar became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in 1937 in Maribor. She enrolled as a student at the Medical Faculty in Belgrade after finishing high school in Maribor. She relocated to Ljubljana and became a member of the Communist Party of Slovenia in April 1941, where she helped set up the illegal Kričač broadcaster.[1]
In February 1943 she joined the Dolomite Detachment of the Slovene Partisans and served as a wireless operator for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia to maintain contact with Moscow. She was captured by Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia forces on 19 March 1943 during the battle in the Belca Gorge (Slovene: Belška grapa) above Belica and was shot the following day in Belo.[1][3] A plaque was unveiled at the site, at the Lenart farm, in 1976.[4]
She was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia on 27 November 1953.
Legacy
editThe Lizika Jančar Dormitory in Maribor (Dijaški dom Lizike Jančar Maribor) is named for her,[5] as is Lizika Jančar Street in Maribor (Ulica Lizike Jančar) and Ljubljana (Ulica Lizike Jančarjeve).
References
edit- ^ a b c Traven, Terezija. 1990."Jančar, Lizika." Enciklopedija Slovenije vol. 4, pp. 262–263. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 296.
- ^ Gestrin, Ferdo. 1961. Pomniki naše revolucije. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 218.
- ^ Ferenc, Tone. 1981. Kronologija naprednega delavskega gibanja na Slovenskem, 1868–1980. Ljubljana: Delavska enotnost, p. 231.
- ^ Vidrih, Zdravko. 1976. "Poudarek kmečkemu turizmu." Javna tribuna (16: 126), p. 5.
- ^ "Website of the Lizika Jančar Dormitory". Archived from the original on 2012-06-26. Retrieved 2012-07-11.