Lizika Jančar

Plaque in Belo commemorating Lizika Jančar

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).