Mitja Ferenc
Mitja Ferenc (21 March 1960) is a Slovenian historian.
Mitja Ferenc was born in Ljubljana as the son of the renowned historian and partisan veteran Tone Ferenc. He graduated from modern history at the University of Ljubljana in 1985.
Since 2000, Ferenc has been researching the mass graves of people killed by the Yugoslav Communist regime after the end of World War II on Slovenian territory.[1] Between 2002 and 2004, he was member of the Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia established by the Slovenian Government to document the 581 mass graves[2] from Communist era found in Slovenia.[3]
Mitja Ferenc contributed to the European Public Hearing on "Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" organised by Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (January–June 2008) and the European Commission. His work was featured in the chapter "Secret World War Two Mass Graves in Slovenia".[4]
He works at the University of Ljubljana, where he teaches history of Southeast Europe in the 20th century. He has also written several books on the history of the Gottschee German community.
Major works
- Franja Partisan Hospital (Ljubljana: Ministry of Culture, Cultural Heritage Office of Slovenia, 2002).
- Gottschee: the lost cultural heritage of the Gottscheer Germans (Louisville, CO: Gottscheer Heritage and Genealogy Association, 2001).
- Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na Kočevskem - Former German Linguistic Island in the Kočevje Region (Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, 2007).
- Prikrito in očem zakrito: prikrita grobišča 60 let po koncu druge svetovne vojne ("Hidden to the Eyes: Hidden Graves 60 Years After the End of World War Two") (Celje: Muzej novejše zgodovine, 2005).
- Prikrivena grobišta Hrvata u Republici Sloveniji - Hidden Graves of Croats in the Republic of Slovenia (Zagreb: Počasni bleiburški vod, 2007).
See also
- Titoism
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Croatian Home Guard
- Slovenian Home Guard
- Kočevski Rog massacre
- Bleiburg tragedy
References
- ↑ Wartime heroes, sinful secrets
- ↑ www.jutarnji.hr U 581 Grobnici je 100.000 žrtava. English version-The Jutarnji newspaper reported on the 01/10/2009 commissions find, in all it is estimated that there are 100 000 victims in 581 mass graves
- ↑ Contributions to Contemporary History
- ↑ European Public Hearing on "Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes” Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (January–June 2008) and the European Commission. At p. 155.
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