Lizika Jančar

Lizika Jančar
Lizika Jančar
Born(1919-10-27)27 October 1919
Maribor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
Died20 March 1943(1943-03-20) (aged 23)
Belo, Province of Ljubljana
Cause of deathShot
NationalitySlovene
Other namesMajda
OccupationEspionage
Known forPeople's Hero of Yugoslavia

Elizabeta "Lizika" Jančar (nom de guerre Majda) (27 October 1919 – 20 March 1943)[1] was a Slovene Partisan.

Life

Plaque in Belo commemorating Lizika Jančar

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

The 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

  1. ^ a b c Traven, Terezija. 1990."Jančar, Lizika." Enciklopedija Slovenije vol. 4, pp. 262–263. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 296.
  2. ^ Gestrin, Ferdo. 1961. Pomniki naše revolucije. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 218.
  3. ^ Ferenc, Tone. 1981. Kronologija naprednega delavskega gibanja na Slovenskem, 1868–1980. Ljubljana: Delavska enotnost, p. 231.
  4. ^ Vidrih, Zdravko. 1976. "Poudarek kmečkemu turizmu." Javna tribuna (16: 126), p. 5.
  5. ^ "Website of the Lizika Jančar Dormitory". Archived from the original on 2012-06-26. Retrieved 2012-07-11.