Lizika Jančar
Slovene partisan (1919–1943)
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Elizabeta "Lizika" Jančar (nom de guerre Majda) (27 October 1919 – 20 March 1943)[1] was a Slovene Partisan.
Lizika Jančar | |
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Lizika Jančar | |
| Born | 27 October 1919 |
| Died | 20 March 1943 (aged 23) |
Cause of death | Shot |
| Other name | Majda |
| Occupation | Espionage |
| Known for | People's Hero of Yugoslavia |
Life
Lizika Jančar was born in Maribor as the daughter of a railway worker that had also worked as a miner in Germany.[2] Jančar became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in 1937 in Maribor. She enrolled as a student at the Medical Faculty in Belgrade after finishing high school in Maribor. She relocated to Ljubljana and became a member of the Communist Party of Slovenia in April 1941, where she helped set up the illegal Kričač broadcaster.[1]
In February 1943 she joined the Dolomite Detachment of the Slovene Partisans and served as a wireless operator for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia to maintain contact with Moscow. She was captured by Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia forces on 19 March 1943 during the battle in the Belca Gorge (Slovene: Belška grapa) above Belica and was shot the following day in Belo.[1][3] A plaque was unveiled at the site, at the Lenart farm, in 1976.[4]
She was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia on 27 November 1953.
Legacy
The Lizika Jančar Dormitory in Maribor (Dijaški dom Lizike Jančar Maribor) is named for her,[5] as is Lizika Jančar Street in Maribor (Ulica Lizike Jančar) and Ljubljana (Ulica Lizike Jančarjeve).