A total of over sixty people worked in all the hospital’s wards. Some were sent there from other partisan units, while others were former patients who joined its staff after recovery. Before the war, the hospital staff were engaged in various professions; most of them were workers, farmers and craftsmen, while some were students and officials. Compelled by current needs they turned into nurses, builders, stewards, etc.
List of the staff
Search the list of the staff
The list is not complete, any corrections and additions can be reported to: info@muzej-idrija-cerkno.si
Govekar, Julij, administrator
Date and place of birth
?
Ward
B
Time of operation
1944–5. 5. 1945
Grilc, Maks, tailor
Date and place of birth
?
Ward
B
Time of operation
December 1943–October 1944
Habjan, Jože,
Date and place of birth
?
Ward
A, Pokljuka
Time of operation
?
Herman, Alojz – Dušan, political commissar
Date and place of birth
29. 05. 1921 - Zalog (Ljubljana)
Ward
B, Pokljuka 10
Time of operation
15. 3. 1944–7. 9. 1944
Hmelak, Slavica, nurse in A, nurse in D, head of ward D Davča
Date and place of birth
03. 05. 1922 - Idrija
Ward
A, D
Time of operation
6. 12. 1943–5. 5. 1945
Igličar, Alojz, steward of wards D and C
Date and place of birth
26. 10. 1914 - Notranje Gorice
Ward
Medical Supplies Department PBF
Time of operation
?
Jauković, Dr. Sreten, doctor
Date and place of birth
?
Ward
B
Time of operation
2. 1. 1944–4. 1. 1944
Jelenc, Anton, staff member
Date and place of birth
?
Ward
C
Time of operation
January 1944–5. 5. 1945
Jemec, Dorica, seamstress
Date and place of birth
05. 01. 1923 - Gorenji Novaki (Cerkno)
Ward
B
Time of operation
Occasionally
Jeras, Milan (Vid), political commissar
Date and place of birth
?
Ward
D
Time of operation
March 1945
Jurjavčič, Viktor, military commander, for a while in the Medical Supplies Department
Date and place of birth
11. 11. 1919 - Jazne (Cerkno)
Ward
B, Medical Supplies Department PBF
Time of operation
–March 1945
Katrašnik, Rudolf – Gašper, Male nurseRead story
Date and place of birth
14. 04. 1923 - Jamnik
Ward
B, Javka v Čemažarj
Time of operation
23. 12. 1943–17. 4. 1944
Kejžar, Štefan – Božo, courier
Date and place of birth
17. 12. 1927 - Davča
Ward
D
Time of operation
1944
Klanjšček, Alojz, guard
Date and place of birth
29.02.1914 - Sveto (Grgar)
Ward
B, Pokljuka 10
Time of operation
29. 1. 1944–5. 5. 1945
Klein, Dr. Vladislav, manager and physician
Date and place of birth
? - Serbia
Ward
B
Time of operation
2. 1. 1944–22. 1. 1944
Kofler, Janko, barber
Date and place of birth
?
Ward
C
Time of operation
January 1944–5. 5. 1945
Kofol, Marjan, stretcher carrier, guard
Date and place of birth
10. 06. 1925 - Sv. Lucija (danes Most na Soči)
Ward
B
Time of operation
2. 1. 1944–5. 5. 1945
Konobelj, Franc – Slovenko, assistant political commissar
Date and place of birth
12. 03. 1916 - Koroška Bela
Ward
B
Time of operation
November 1944–13. 4. 1945
Konobelj Noč, Tončka – Milica, assistant worker
Date and place of birth
22. 11. 1925 - Javorniški Rovt
Ward
Medical Supplies Department PBF
Time of operation
March 1945–13. 4. 1945
Kordež, Avgust – Zmago, nurse, manager of A, nurse and electrician in B
Date and place of birth
22. 05. 1913 - Železniki
Ward
A, C, D
Time of operation
10. 12. 1943–5. 5. 1945
“With a comrade like him I could endure even worse trials than those in mid-November 1943.”(Dr Viktor Volčjak)
Before joining the partisans, Gašper worked as a forester at Jelovica. There, he and his father one day found and took care of a wounded partisan. As punishment they spent some time in the Begunje prison. After release, he was summoned to the German army, which he avoided by joining the partisans. Due to an ankle injury, he was treated in a small partisan hospital in Gorenjska. After recovery in autumn 1943, he came to Cerkno as a male nurse. During a German attack in November that year, the medical staff and the wounded withdrew to Gorenjska. The transfer took place in extremely adverse winter conditions, which required tremendous efforts from the staff. Dr Volčjak recalled that Gašper hallucinated because of exhaustion. He developed great confidence in this young man with whom he had lived through many difficult moments. Gašper was the first of the staff to whom he disclosed the plan to build a hospital in the gorge, as well as being its first nurse. Later, he was assigned to the communication point in Praprotnik’s mill, where he took care of the wounded. The communication point was discovered by German soldiers during the offensive on 17 April 1944. Gašper succeeded in moving most of the wounded to safety before he, his assistant and two of the wounded were shot dead by soldiers. About his premature and tragic death, Dr Volčjak wrote the following: “The doors of death opened and closed behind Gašper so quickly that he was unable to leave us any messages other than his sacrifice which still denounces all the violence of this world.”
