France Dejak

France Dejak (20 September 1925, Dolenje Laze near Ribnica, Slovenia - September 2003, Cleveland, United States[1]) was a survivor of the Kočevski Rog killings of members of the Slovene Home Guard, repatriated by the British 5th Corps in Carinthia to the Titoist regime immediately after the World War II.

Dejak described the survival and escape many times after the end of the Cold war and he did it in detail for the first time in an interview published by Mladina magazine on 3 November 1989 to journalist Gorazd Suhadolnik.[2]

He, France Kozina, and Milan Zajec were the only ones among the survivors of the mass killing who managed, with the help of the tree, which during the dynamiting slid down into the cave with its trunk still hooked on the edge of the cave, climbed out of it and escaped.[3][4][5][6]

His escape story copied by Janez Janša and claimed as his father's story

The France Dejak's account was claimed by Janez Janša as his father's story copying its details.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Julka Žagar (2003). In memoriam France Dejak. Zaveza št.50, Nova Slovenska Zaveza, Ljubljana
  2. ↑ Bernard Nežmah (2003) Človek, ki ga niso opazili (A Man Who Was Not Noticed, Mladina magazine, Ljubljana, 5.3.
  3. ↑ Milač, Metod (2002). Resistance, imprisonment & forced labor: a Slovene student in World War II, Studies in Modern European History, Vol. 47, P. Lang, ISBN 0820457817, page 207.
  4. ↑ Corsellis, John & Marcus Ferrar (2005) Slovenia 1945: memories of death and survival after World War II, I.B.Tauris, ISBN 1850438404
  5. ↑ Zajec, Milan; Dejak, France; Kozina, France (1998). Poročila treh rešencev iz množičnega groba v Kočevskem Rogu, Mohorjeva družba, ISBN 9783850135948
  6. ↑ France Dejak - Beg iz jame, Zaveza št.2, transcribed from the Radio Študent, Nova Slovenska Zaveza, Ljubljana
  7. ↑ Totalitarna kultura smrti in zgodba družine Janša. Družina. 25 March 2009. Accessed: 2012-04-01. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/66boYDLp5 )
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