Slovenian Historical Tours
Tour of GORENJSKA-UPPER CARNIOLA: Crngrob Mass graves; Škofja Loka: Castle tour; mass graves discussion; Begunje na Gorenskem: castle tour; mass graves
Tour of Ljubljana: Police headquarters basement tour; visit the SCNR (Study Center for National Reconciliation) office, and listen to presentations on revolutionary violence by SCNR historians; visit to the Museum of Contemporary History, and get an overview of the mass graves research and digs in Slovenia and see part of the collection of items found of grave victims; Žale cemetery
Tour of DOLENJSKA-LOWER CARNIOLA: Turjak castle; Kočevski Rog, including Jama pod Macesnovo gorico/mass grave, possibly Ferdring concentration camp.
Brestanica castle–former Nazi concentration camp and former communist prison/concentration camp for non-criminal women
NOTRANJSKA-INNER CARNIOLA: Pivka Military Museum; optional tour at Postojna Caves; Brezarjev graben is a mass grave just outside Ljubljana. Dr. Monika Kokalj-Kočevar of the Contemporary Museum of History will give participants a short presentation on the communist Partisan crimes committed here.
Route of refugees fleeing Tito; Ljubel tunnel, to Viktring (Vitrinj) Austria, Bleiburg (Pilberk), to Maribor. Route to be guided by Nova Slovenska Zaveza
Visit Dobrava cemetery: The Dobrava Cemetery was established in 1985 in the area of the Stažun forest, located on edge of the city of Maribor, and it was meant to become the main city cemetery. Inside the cemetery is a monument for more than 15,000 victims, mostly Croatian, killed by communist Partisans after the war in May 1945. They were killed in the woods in Tezno in May 1945, which lies near the memorial. The cemetery also holds the remains of the victims from the Huda Jama massacre.
Kidričevo: The Sterntal Camp (Slovene: Taborišče Šterntal, German: Lager Sterntal) was a communist concentration camp/death camp located in Kidričevo, Slovenia for ethnic German Slovene citizens.
Teharje Death camp: The Teharje concentration and death camp near Teharje, Slovenia, was run by the Yugoslav secret police (OZNA) after the end of World War II in Yugoslavia
Huda Jama, a hidden mass grave of over 1,400 Slovenian victims of post-war massacres was found in the tunnel of the mine in Huda Jama near Laško
a one day tour in Trieste, Italy: site of Rice shop Gestapo murders and Bazovica cave
I am primarily interested in visiting sites of revolutionary/communist violence
I would like to visit sites of communist violence, Nazi violence, and fascist/Italian violence
I prefer a tour in October (costs are lower)
I prefer a tour in May
I prefer a 5-day tour
I prefer an 8-day tour
I am interested in 1-day tours leaving from Ljubljana during summer