Ivanka Trohar

In memoriam

Ivanka Trohar Yugoslavian (Croatian) national war hero, decreed by the President of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, July 24, 1953. After elementary school, she did not continue her education because her parents did not have money. She learned the tailor trade and became self taught. In 1939, at a course for Esperanto , she met the managers of SKOJ (Communist Youth Union of Yugoslavia) and became a member. After the occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941, and member of SKOJ, she worked on preparations for an armed uprising, collecting food, clothing, weapons, and ammunition. She was also a member of the District Committee of SKOJ Delnice, performing tasks in the liberated and semi-liberated territory. At the beginning of 1942, she became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In March 1942, she was arrested by the Italian police, but was released the same day due to lack of evidence. After being released from prison, she joined the partisans and became a fighter of the " Matija Gubec " battalion. She participated in the attack and liberation of Mrkopalj, and all actions of the Goran Partisan Company. She also worked organizing local youth in partisan units. In the same year, Ivanka led 30 young men and women through the forests, past occupied garrisons, to the District Youth Counseling of Gorski Kotar in Drežnica, near Ogulin. She organized the collection of material aid for the Serbian youth of Drežnica, who suffered from the attack of enemy units, and formed working groups to reconstruct the village. These working groups also participated in the evacuation of the wounded from Partisan hospital no. 7, during an enemy attack. In November 1942, Ivanka, as a representative of the youth of Gorski Kotar, participated and gave a report at the First Congress of the United Union of Anti-Fascist Youth of Yugoslavia (USAOJ) in Bihać. In 1943, she became a member of the KPH District Committee for Fužine, the USAOH District Committee Secretariat, the SKOJ District Committee for Gorski Kotar, the Fužine District NOO. By this time, war efforts had damaged her health, so in 1944 she was referred for treatment. At the time of the enemy's offensive in October 1944, she was working near Brod na Kupi. She was captured, tortured and interrogated for about 20 days in prisons in Delnice, Vrbovsko, Ogulin and Karlovac, by the Ustashas. After that, the German Court in Karlovac sentenced her to death, which was carried out on October 31, 1944 (or the beginning of December 1944). She was hanged in the village of Novac or Draganić near Karlovac. She is buried in the Fužine cemetary with her maternal grandparents. (Source: Wikipedia).

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