Opening of the exhibition: Reborn - Slovenian partisans and the rescue of allied airmen during World War II. war
Monument of Peace on Cerje
Reborn is the title of the exhibition about the rescue of Allied soldiers on Slovenian land during the Second World War. Otok airport in Bela Krajna played an indispensable role in this, from where a hundred British prisoners, rescued by the partisans from the camp near Maribor, were transported to Bari.
720 allied planes fell on Slovenian teritory, and Slovenian partisans rescued more than 800 allied pilots and prisoners of war.
The exhibition narrates about the heroic stories of the people who helped the Allied airmen during the difficult moments of the Second World War.
Author of the exhibition: dr. Blaž Torkar and M.Sc. Zvezdan Marković
