Baza 20 Memorial Site, Kočevski Rog

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Kočevski Rog Baza 20

Kočevski rog, SI-8000 Novo mesto

http://www.dolmuzej.com/en/razstave/stalne/baza20/

dolenjski.muzej@guest.arnes.si

Phone386 (0)7 306 60 25, 386 (0)41 315 165

Managed byDolenjska Museum, Novo mesto

Jože Saje, Head Supervisor

dolenjski.muzej@guest.arnes.si

Phone+ 386 (0)7 306 60 25, +386 (0)41 315 165

The numerous camps in the woods of Kočevski Rog were once the commanding structures of the National Liberation Movement that organised first resistance troops there already in August 1941. There was first liberated zone in under partisan command as early as May 1942 and Rog became centre of armed resistance. Partisan hospitals, workshops, schools, printing works and warehouses were erected in this deep woods. From April 1943 most important headquarters were in Baza 20; seat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia and the Executive Committee of the Liberation. Of the numerous secretively built partisan structures and settlements in the Kočevski Rog, only Baza 20, Jelendol and Zgornji Hrastnik field hospitals, are preserved as cultural and historical monuments since 1952. There are 26 scattered barracks in this very diverse Karst area, which gave them a lot of hiding and protection. In Lukov dom a short introductory documentary is presented about history of Kočevski Rog and Baza 20. In 1995 a permanent exhibition in barrack 16 was opened at presenting history of the place, its significance an role. Since 1998 another exhibition is on display in Barrack 22, on partisan workshops, health care and the operation of some sections of the Slovene National Liberation Council in the Kočevski Rog. In Lukov dom there is a short introductory documentary on Baza 20 and historic events in Second World War that happened in Kočevski Rog.

See also

• Dolenjska Museum, Novo mesto

External links

• Baza 20 web page
• Baza 20 on Burger.si virtual panoramas website