Valerija Bojc

In memoriam

Valerija Bojc was nicknamed "Velca" in her family. She became a member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, where she took the name Akvina. During her hospital work in the Second World War she treated patients on all sides of the conflict, including allied soldiers, among them U.S. Air Force Captain Maurice Brash in fall 1944. The nuns helped some military patients escape and also kept others hidden and treated them in secret. She was imprisoned by the Germans for her involvement. After the war, she was imprisoned several times by the Communist authorities. On 9 August 1948 she was sentenced to thirteen years of forced labor and five years of loss of civil rights on charges of "assisting the organizers and promoters of treason in Slovenia, being a member of a Četnik gang, and smuggling mail to war criminals." She was imprisoned in Rajhenburg Castle, which the communists had converted into a penal institution for female political prisoners. She fell ill under the harsh conditions at the prison and was taken to the hospital in Ljubljana in 1951, where she died on 6 April. Sources: - http://www.vace.si/akvina.htm - http://www.vace.si/bojcdominko.htm

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