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]
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).
References
^ abcTraven, Terezija. 1990."Jančar, Lizika." Enciklopedija Slovenije vol. 4, pp. 262–263. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 296.
^Gestrin, Ferdo. 1961. Pomniki naše revolucije. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 218.
^Ferenc, Tone. 1981. Kronologija naprednega delavskega gibanja na Slovenskem, 1868–1980. Ljubljana: Delavska enotnost, p. 231.
