Vinko Martinšek

In memoriam

Vinko Martinšek lived at the Loščar farm in Črni Vrh. He was also known by his Partisan name "Omejcev Vencelj" (Vencelj from the Omejc farm) because his mother's maiden name was Omejc. He was born at Črni Vrh no. 25 on 31 March 1919 and made his living working on the local farms. He was a well-known accordion player. In late fall of 1941 he was transported by the German authorities to work in Austria, but fled in the winter of 1942. In May 1942 he joined the Partisan forces in the Polhov Gradec Hills. He served them as a courier, carrying message across the wartime border, which was protected with landmines and barbed wire. He was skilled at demining, and gathered live mines and brought them to the Partisans to be used as grenades. He was killed while gathering mines on 9 March 1943 by a "muštafarica" landmine that had been laid atop another. His comrades dragged his body into the woods and later buried him. The mines he had gathered that day were used in an attack against Italian forces in March 1943. Source: Mrovlje, Janko. "Zapiski o Poljanski četi — spomini in gradivo (I)." In: Loški razgledi 35: 93-125, pp. 328-329.

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