Public Memory of Victims Executed at Suhi Bajer in Ljubljana

Abstract

Suspects accused of having committed acts against the state were executed at the Suhi Bajer gorge, beneath the hill Golovec in Ljubljana during World War I. The identities of the bulk of them remain unknown to this day. In the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes they were celebrated as heroic victims of the Austrian regime. In the press, Suhi Bajer was mentioned in the context of political conflicts. Organized by the ORJUNA, memorial ceremonies were held there from the mid-1920s onwards. A memorial commemorating the executed victims was erected on site by a special committee in 1934 and their mortal remains were transferred to the ossuary at the Žale cemetery in 1939. At the present, this site and the memorial lie abandoned.