Anton “Tone” Kušar

This is his grave in the cemetery. For his memorial at the church, see Anton Kušar . For his memorial at Šentpavel, see Anton Kušar . Yugoslav military police (KNOJ) arrived in Šentpavel on 4 July 1945, where they abducted several men and took them away. They were shot in the woods above the mills on the Reka River, below the hamlet of Razore (in the village of Zagradišče). Although they had been killed immediately, the authorities told the villagers that the men were in prison, and so their families sent regular care packages to them. This continued until mid-August 1945, when a local discovered the men's bodies buried in two pits in the woods. However, before the villagers could rebury them in the local cemetery, the bodies were taken away and reburied anonymously in a mass grave at Saint Ulrich's Church in the Ljubljana neighborhood of Dobrunje. Anton Kušar was Mihael Garbajs ' brother-in-law, from the Gorenc farm. He lived in Bizovik and was the father of four small children. He worked in a leather factory in Ljubljana. On the day he was abducted, he happened to be traveling to Šentpavel in order to gather traveler's joy for binding sheaves of barley (this plant was used for this purpose because mice do not gnaw on it). He had not yet reached the village when he was seized. His wife looked for him all night in vain, and then sent his eldest daughter to Šentpavel to ask about him, where she was told about the abductions. After his death, his wife, Ivana Mulhar Kušar (1903–1974), supported herself as a washerwoman in Bizovik. (Source: Zaveza no. 42, 25 February 2010 )