The book presents the life and activity of the Jewish community in the Goriška region from its beginnings to the tragic end of 1943. The period from the mid-19th century onwards, when the Jews entered the same state-legal framework, has been specially explored. For centuries, the Jewish community gave an important stamp on Gorizia and its land. It was a heterogeneous community consisting of both faithful Jews and assimilated and Zionist-oriented. In the historic Gorizia, this is in the territory of the former Gorica County (up to 1500) and later in the region of Gorizia-Burgenland under the Habsburgs (until 1918), there were two independent Jewish communities, Gorizia and Gradišče ob Soči (Gradisca d'Isonzo). Only the Jewish community in Gorizia, which was joined in 1893 by the few remaining Jews from Gradišče ob Soči, survived the First World War and the disintegration of the Habsburg monarchy. In 1943, the Jewish community in Gorizia was systematically destroyed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 293191168
The Cyril-Methodius Society of Catholic Priests of the People's Republic of Slovenia and the »People's Government« During the Worst Repression The Communist authorities considered the Catholic Church their enemy number one, so they founded the Slovenian Cyril-Methodius Society (CMD), which was the first professional association of priests in Yugoslavia, in order to split the Church, divide the priests among themselves, separate the priests from their bishops, double-cross the heads of the dioceses and restrict the influence of the Vatican. The Catholic Church was under constant surveillance of the secret police (UDBA) and the Religious Commission, with the assistance of the so-called progressive clergy. UDBA created the appearance that the CMD was founded by the priests who were members of the Liberation Front (OF), but the actual mover was UDBA, which was even sending invitations to its meetings. Members of CMD were granted many advantages and privileges. Many joined under pressure, especially older priests, for whom it was the only way to survive. Membership in CMD reached its peak in 1952 with 526 members and then began to decline. Younger priestsin particular were opposed to CMD. The Society existed until 1990, but in 1970 it changed its name to the Slovenian Priests' Association.
COBISS.SI-ID: 7773018
Through the personal story of Jelka Mrak Dolinar the publication reveals the fatal events at the end of the war, the operation of the post-war judicial system and the situation in women’s penal institutions. The story of the family of Jelka Mrak Dolinar speaks of her parents’ refugee experience due to fascist violence in the Primorska region, on how the Germans forced the family to migrate during the occupation period, and their escape from communist violence. When at the end of the war, Jelka wanted to retreat to Carinthia, with the Slovenian Home Guards members and opponents of communism, she got stuck on the train along with wounded Slovenian Home Guards members through a series of circumstances. Her heroic decision not to leave helpless people in distress, unlike other medical personnel, led her to being punished by the post-war authorities. Thus, she and her sister ended up in a camp in Šentvid nad Ljubljano, instead among refugees in Austria, and later in various women’s prisons, whereby the judicial proceedings against her were politically motivated. After being released from prison, Jelka Mrak Dolinar lived in Slovenia for some time; later she moved to Spittal an der Drau, where she still lives today. After many years, she finally got to see rehabilitation on the side of the Slovenian state.
COBISS.SI-ID: 292065792
The article shows how the revolutionary criminal law began in Slovenia at the beginning of the Second World War, with the roots in the decision of the Communist Party of Jugoslavia in 1920 for violence and how it developed during the war and after the communist takeover of the government after 1945. This is a critical comparative legal analysis of the then legal regulations and judgments of the courts and their confrontation with the law of civilized nations. The article also shows the background of the work of the people's courts, political pressures and other features of criminal and administrative criminal repression. It particularly deals with the definitions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia on revolutionary (un)law and the symbolic and actual rehabilitation of the victims of revolutionary justice and the results of the government commission for the restitution of post-war injustices.
COBISS.SI-ID: 42513453
The author presents the importance of a culture of human rights and fundamental freedoms and warns of their violations that characterize undemocratic societies. At the core of human rights and fundamental freedoms is a human, a free being and an autonomous personality. Therefore, the author exposes the life story of one of the most important Slovenian political dissidents, dr. Ljubo Sirc (1920, Kranj-2016, Glasgow). She points at the interweaving of Ljubo Sirc and dr. Jože Pučnik, who was politically convicted and like Ljubo Sirc, was forced to search for a new existence abroad. Both were firmly committed to the values in accordance with which they lived. And among them was freedom in the first place. They raised questions about the structure and functioning of the communist system, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the functioning of civil society and democracy. The article also shows their efforts for freedom and human rights.
COBISS.SI-ID: 42524461