Lizika Jančar | |
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Born | |
Died | 20 March 1943 | (aged 23)
Cause of death | Shot |
Nationality | Slovene |
Other names | Majda |
Occupation | Espionage |
Known for | People's Hero of Yugoslavia |
Elizabeta "Lizika" Jančar ( nom de guerre Majda) (27 October 1919 – 20 March 1943) [1] was a Slovene Partisan.
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.
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).