The exhibition is bilingual. It is designed on fourteen mobile panels. The titles of the panels that reflect its content are: Throughout the Time of Ordeal; The Mrak Family War Experience with Fascism, Nazism And Communism; The End of the War and the Escape from Ljubljana; Camp in Šentvid Ljubljana; Court Prisons and a Politically Motivated Judicial Process; KPZ Begunje; KPD Rajhenburg; Brotherhood and Unity Motorway; Freedom; Departue to Austria; Time Heals all Wounds. The opening of the exhibition took place on 23 November 2017 at the premises of the Study Center for National Reconciliation. The opening of the exhibition was addressed by the director dr. Andreja Valič Zver, by historian and journalist dr. Jože Možina, who has cooperated with Jelka for many years, and by the authors of the exhibition, Jelka Piškurić and Neža Strajnar. At the end of the opening also spoke Jelka Mrak Dolinar and her son, mag. Lojze Dolinar. The opening of the exhibition was widely visited and also resonated in the Slovenian media.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 42198061After the end of World War II, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia came into power in Yugoslavia – and in Slovenia. The Party immediately started to reinforce its position with different measures which triggered resistance also in the form of various activities of large and small illegal groups. The Communist rule linked the emergence, organization and operation of illegal groups in Slovenia to the activities of Slovene military and political emigrants, which were settled in the refugee camps in Austria and Italy after leaving Slovenia at the end of the war. Communist regime related illegal groups in Slovenia with two organizations of Yugoslav and Slovene emigrants which were formed in Austria shortly after the end of the war. The first such organization was the National Committee of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, established in late May or early June 1945 in Salzburg. It was an organization that was supposed to take care of the social situation of the Yugoslav (and Slovene) refugees in Austria and it was responsible for their registration. The second organization was the Main Intelligence Centre, founded in St. Johann military refugee camp in Pongau near Salzburg in October 1945 and lead by Slovene Andrej Glušič, Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Yugoslav Army. The main tasks of Main Intelligence Centre were to establish a network of intelligence centres in refugee camps in Austria and Italy, collect information on the situation in the homeland, spread as far in Slovenia as possible and take over any activities linked to organization of and relations between illegal groups. It can be established that the intelligence centres were not well acquainted with the situation in Slovenia. They believed that there was an extensive network of illegal groups, which was not the case. The British and American occupying authorities in Austria, as well as the British Field Security Service and the American Counter Intelligence Corps were aware of the activity of the intelligence centres in the Austrian refugee camps – they allowed such activity only if it was not too obvious and mostly in exchange for information on the situation in Yugoslavia.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 41810221The article discusses the Catholic Church and its relations with the Kingdom of Italy around the outbreak of First World War. It explicitly focusses on the role the Holy See and the local Catholic Church authorities in the Primorska region played in light of Italian territorial expansion tendencies even before it officialy joined the war in the Spring of 1915. It presents the Holy Father‘s peace efforts during the Great War and the opinions of bishops in the Primorska region towards Italy and it joining the War on the side of the Entente. The Catholic Church of the Primorska region entered the war hoping that the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, with a catholic royal family, the Habsburgs, at the helm, would live through it and that its‘ social structure, as they knew it, would persevere. An overwhelming majority of the clergy believed in these goals. Many a priest was willing to give his life for »faith, homeland and the Kaiser«. The responsibilities of the clergy widened as the clashes between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armed forces escalated. Many priests didn‘t prepare themselves and their parishioners for the hard times they would know have to survive, because they underestimated the military strength of Italy under the infl uence of state propaganda and military leadership.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 42468653When the Kingdom of Yugoslavia came under attack on 6 April 1941, the Sokols of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia went underground and started the Sokol Legion while the communist Sokol wing joined the Anti-Imperialist Front on 26 April 1941. In June 1941 this Front renamed itself after Germany attacked the Soviet Union to the Liberation Front (OF). It should be noted that the communist Sokols were neither legal nor legitimate signatories of any documents on behalf of the Sokol organisation. The Sokols in Slovenia were grouped into five independent counties at the time: Ljubljana, Maribor, Celje, Kranj and Novo mesto. None of the county elders who were the only persons holding the right to sign Sokol documents signed the founding documents of the Liberation Front. The servility of the communist Sokols ensured that the communists in the leading OF bodies had the required majority in making decisions that were in line with the execution of the Stalinist revolution program. Perceived political independence of the Sokols in the OF was required only in the first stage of the revolution so that it would appear as a bourgeoise revolution. During World War II the Communist Party enlisted at least 1229 Sokol members. Their average age at the beginning of the war was 20 years. When the Security-Intelligence Service (Varnostnoobveščevalna služba - VOS) was established, it was led by party trained Sokol members, in particular members of the procommunist workers cultural organisation Vzajemnost. At the end of WWII, the communist Sokols called a meeting of Slovenian Sokol organisation for 8 July 1945. At the meeting the Sokol organisation disbanded itself.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 292610560During the period of the communist regime in Slovenia (Yugoslavia), the Catholic Church was under special pressure from the authorities because it was the only organized institution outside the Communist party. When Anton Vovk and Dr. Maksimilijan Držečnik were appointed as assistant bishops, the authorities did not recognize them as such, which does not mean that the secret police police did not constantly control and interrogate them. All the interrogations of Udba contain the demands that Vovk should cooperate with the authorities to acknowledge the blame of the Church or its representatives, to act against priests who were burdened with this guilt, and to recognize illegal relationships with foreign countries. In addition to Bishop Rožman, the stumbling block was also the regency of nunciature. From the operational plans of Udba in the years 1947 and 1948, it is clear that arrests and judicial debates against priests and monks were part of a wider action against the Ljubljana and Maribor diocese. Udba constantly threatened Vovk to would imprison an even greater number of priests if he did not change his attitude towards the authorities. From this it can be seen that it was not at all about the subjective guilt of individual priests, but that the processes were part of a wider plan to destroy or at least disrupt the functioning of the Church as an institution.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
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