Jakob Mlakar

This is the memorial for Jakob Mlakar in Sostro. For the memorial to him in Šentpavel, see: Jakob Mlakar . 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. Jakob Mlakar was the father of five young children (two sons and three daughters). He lived at the Polak farm (Slovene: "pri Polakovih"). On the afternoon he was abducted, he and his daughter Jožefa "Pepca" had returned from taking manure to the fields with the oxen. While she was waiting with the oxen and her father was getting some food, five men in Partisan uniforms came to the farm and took him away. (Source: Zaveza no. 42, 25 February 2010 )