Successful Care Espionage and Dr. Magomed

 Example of cutlery of the Wounded Discovery Gadžijev – Mišo impressed with his knowledge, diligence Until the end of his life, he stayed in touch of the Hospital and honesty, allowed him to wear the rank with Slovenian fellow combatants, who did of Major. Nurse Marina Lenarčič was a not forget his contribution in the national great help to Dr. Gadžijev, and she became liberation struggle, and he was, in many of the Especially after 1 September 1944, the hospital his wife in the partisan movement and the letters, touchingly thanking them for their mother of a top Slovenian surgeon Dr. Eldar selfless saving of lives, including his own. He was permanently endangered and, therefore, He was born on 10 May 1914 in Bujnask, in Magomedovič Gadžijev. After the war, Dr. died on 24 November 1972 in his hometown of they organized transfers of wounded people today's Autonomous Republic of Dagestan as Mišo returned to his native Dagestan, and Bujnask. from Brkini across Pivka to Notranjska region a member of the Avar national community. “Sometimes I had to cook for 60 or 70 people, five times. The transfers were linked to the there in the newspaper "Dagestanskaya In those years, care for wounded and sick The medical profession was in the family but how to do it, when it was necessary to extraordinary efforts of the fighters, the great Pravda" described the heroism of Slovenian partisans was the most important task for tradition, his grandfather, who was well hide each flame, every shade of smoke, walk suffering of the wounded and the constant partisans and events in the hospital Zalesje. the people of Brkini, and although everyone known as a famous doctor even on the  only at night in the snow and darkness, cover danger to all. In the beginning of November, The letter of Mrs Marija Petrinja, in which she more or less knew where the hospital was Russian Tsarist court, was very successful. describes her experience with Dr. Magomed up every track and carry every drop of water the attacks of the occupying forces intensified. Gadžijev. located, no one disclosed it to the Germans, Courier bag  Young Magomed decided under the influence ”400 to 500 meters away! Every crust of bread, They penetrated deeper into Brkini and the who also knew that it existed and furiously of the political ideas in the Soviet Union to milk, potatoes and all other necessities were partisan troops were increasingly threatened. searched for it. The personnel were strictly break the tradition and after high school to be brought in the utmost secrecy from There were numerous arrests of the field staff guided by the principle of "not knowing, not decided to study Mining Engineering. But Ostrožno Brdo, which was an hour away… of the national liberation struggle, and the telling" and transported every wounded the grandfather's influence was too strong, And we were always in fear, especially in enemy was too strong for partisan troops. person or patient to and from the hospital he felt an inclination to medical studies, and bora winds, then arrived at Ostrožno the winter of 1944/45, when the Germans The Germans tried to find the hospital in blindfolded and taking the "longer" route. hospital, finally finding the shack and the enrolled in Medicine and successfully finished Brdo to a hospitable partisan and Chetniks always rummaged around our every way, knowing that this would be a bad The difficulty of the situation and the efforts bunker, burning them and destroying the it. As an extremely promising student, after family of Franc Masl, a father hospital. But back then we could do all this and moral blow to the fighters and rebellious of the staff may best be described by the supply of food and medicines. In the worst graduation, he was sent on a training in of eight Brkini partisans, endured because we were young, we worked people of Brkini. They were interrogating the memories of the selfless cook Malka Krebelj, conditions, the inhabitants of Suhor and Moscow, where he devoted himself to surgery. who spoke a little Russian. In with enthusiasm and firmly believed in our locals, searching for the hospital through one of the "pillars" of the Zalesje hospital: other Brkini villages once again proved to be In 1939, he joined the Red Army as a doctor the Istrian Detachment they just cause …« the forests, and even smuggled two spies outstanding by hiding most of their patients of the second rank, however, he soon became were in a desperate need of among the partisan couriers in the Brkini in their homes and risking their lives again. the Head of the Sanitation Department a doctor and the fugitive area. On November 18, the hospital's kitchen On January 18, eight members of the staff and was promoted to Captain in 1942. As a was soon included in their was discovered and dismantled, and the with the last three hospital occupants made longtime Komsomol, he was accepted into the detachment. The doctor hospital's move was inevitable. The two- their way from Brkini through Pivka to Communist Party and became a Major of the got the partisan name month relocation of wounded people and partisan hospital mount Snežnik, where they joined the staff of Red Army. Mišo and gladly accepted patients began, which in the cold rain and the SVPB-S. With this, the hospital "Zalesje" His life took quite an unexpected path running the hospital in  A set of World War II snow represented an unthinkable suffering.  Kitchen in Zalesje stopped working, unfortunately too little when he was wounded and captured by the Padež, which he later medicines The reconstruction project of the Partisan “ While hiding in horrendous conditions in the Germans at the end of 1942. On the way to moved and built a known, but of the utmost importance both Hospital Zalesje is based on the available Brkini forests, SS and German army officers for the health of the partisans of Primorska, Italy, on 10 January 1944, his department bigger one at a safer written sources and testimonies of people who carried out two offensive operations on the as well as for the brave Brkini population arrived in Senožeče, where Dr. Gadžijev location in "Zalesje". worked in the Partisan Hospital Zalesje and ... Who are these young men, and thus for the success of the fight against escaped together with Cossack Boris The Staff of VII their descendants. Given the time distance of the whose faces shine so brightly? occupying forces. Abdulajev on the night of January 13. They Corps, event and the lack of accurate records on the wandered for three days through the snow position and the shape of the facilities, we allow ... Who are these young women, the possibility that the renovated facilities differ are they truly afraid of nothing? Coffee grinder  in shape and position from the actual situation. Pivka

After the withdrawal of the Italians and to study at the end of December. The hospital The treatment at Zalesje Hospital, amputated a leg of badly wounded Anton the arrival of the Germans, the fierceness was taken over by the Italian military doctor introduced by Dr. Gadžijev according Jenk. Two of the three assistants fainted,

of the fights was greatly increased, and "Pietro", who, in addition to incompetence and to the principles of the Soviet frontal and the instrumentalist kept dropping the Divača the brutality of the new occupiers became pride, was accused of nothing less than the surgery, despite difficult conditions, instruments due to nervousness. On top of unimaginable. The fights in September 1943, death of Company's Commissioner Jože Volk Emergence lack of medicines, medical devices and it, the patient’s heart was giving out and the Ribnica and in particular the sixth German offensive because of the overdose of morphine. Thus, at equipment, and constant dangers, was very doctor had to stop the operation and revive Knežak left so many wounded that it was necessary to the beginning of 1944, the emergency hospital of Zalesje Hospital successful, since only 5 out of 207 patients him with a heart massage. After two days Ostrožno Brdo establish at least a much-needed emergency in Padež experienced many bitter moments. died. In addition to routine procedures and of uncertainty, the patient survived and Prem partisan hospital. The first emergency hospital Fortunately, on the night of January 13, treatment of patients, he also performed recovered. kitchen bunker in Brkini was thus formed in November in Senožeče, a Major of the Red Army, a very difficult surgery for those conditions, 1943 in Padež, hidden in a narrow valley Russian physician, Dr. Magomed Gadžijev The Germans were increasingly active in including amputations. The first demanding Brkini, and in Padež it soon became too behind the most secluded farmhouse of the escaped from German captivity, joined the surgery in Zalesje, which lasted two Ilirska memorial Bistrica plaque Šprohar family, where the wounded were Brkini partisans and, on 22 January, took dangerous, so Dr. Gadžijev and his colleagues hours, was on May 12, when Dr. Gadžijev Beginning also admitted. Mainly due to the exceptional over the management of this hospital. He started looking for a safer place for a larger hospital. He found it in the overgrown slope dedication of conscious locals from nearby immediately began reorganizing the hospital, Kozina of World War II farms, it worked well. After the battle at Tatre, provided assistants and coworkers and called Boršt above the Šmagorska Valley  Shack for the wounded when the Nazis struck a severe blow to the started documenting all the wounded. Dušan and named the site Zalesje, which in Russian  Bunker shack for simple beds and a space for the operating the wounded Šercer Brigade, the hospital was no longer Dujc was the anesthetist, Dušan Dobrila the means "behind the forest". Following the table in it. The entrance to the bunker was 0 m 25 50 able to treat all the wounded. The Nazis instrumentalist, Jože Petkovšek - Branko was instructions of Dr. Gadžijev, the Brkini a half-meter high and wide opening, and intensified their pressure, and the Chetniks the quartermaster, Jože Resinovič - Očka was partisans, in the highest secrecy and mostly Podgrad the wounded were pushed through it as The Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of , In Slovenia, which the aggressors surrounded Already under the Italian occupation, the and anti-partisan troops loyal to Milan Nedić in charge of woodworking, and Malka Krebelj at night, about a kilometer from the burned DOF 2017, LIDAR 2015, TTN5 1997 bread in the oven. Each time the hole was from all sides, the Second World War started Brkini partisans had difficulties in treating regime attacked more and more frequently. from Ostrožno Brdo was the cook. Šmagor homestead, set up a shack and the Jelšane covered with a wooden cover, covered with on April 6, 1941. The Germans from the the wounded. Most of them were treated in In the last months of 1943, the hospital was day after its completion, nine wounded men moss and foliage, and a tree was planted Starod north, the Italians from the West and the the homes of nationally conscious people of administered by the medical student of were admitted to it. But the shack leaked on it. Two bunkers for storage of food and Hungarians from the East divided the entire Brkini, which was life threatening, and here medicine Bernard Šemrlj-Nadi, who returned and was too close to the forest path, so they territory among themselves and took it in and there they set up emergency hospitals moved deeper into the forest and set up medicines were built a few steps away from another, much bigger one. About 200 meters the shack. With branches, moss and foliage, Rijeka less than a week. After the Italian occupation, in hidden caves. The seriously wounded were  Example of a saw which partisan rebel groups, which had great sometimes taken with falsified documents away, the kitchen was also built. The chimney they repeatedly masked all the traces in the helped them in amputations. support from the local people, started to to a hospital in Trieste or was diverted underground and the hole was wider area, and in winter they concealed the organize themselves in the Primorska region Rijeka, and also assisted Stretchers  filled with branches, so that the smoke was footprints so that they sifted snow on them. CONTACT: dispersed. They burned only dry logs without The first report lists 8 wounded, 20 patients, a Sources: 1. Primary School Rudi Mahnič – TIC and already in September 1941 the Brkini by doctors from Ilirska Brkinc Pregarje (2010) Partizanska bolnica Company was founded. For the sake of its Bistrica, Kozina, Divača bark, but they had problems with chopping doctor, three nurses, two hospital attendants, Zalesje (Partisan Hospital Zalesje). Obrov: Gregorčičeva c. 2 and sawing wood because they had to pay a steward and Primary School Rudi Mahnič – Brkinc Pregarje 6250 Ilirska Bistrica effectiveness, it was a thorn in the side of and Postojna. 2. Šinkovec, Č. (1966) Uporni svet pod Snežnikom both Italian and later German occupiers, attention to noise in addition to smoke. a machine (The Rebellious World under Snežnik). Ilirska [email protected] Half a kilometer from the original shack, a gunner. Bistrica: Občinski odbor zveze združenj borcev www.tic-ilbistrica.si/zalesje who often tried to destroy it with aggressive NOV 3. Zadnik, M. (1975) Istrski odred (Istrian offensives, and at the same time revenge with hideout or a bunker for seriously wounded Detachment). Nova Gorica: Partizanska knjiga. tel.: +386 5 99 85 011 | tel.: +386 5 99 66 278 | GSM: +386 30 345 221 the deportations and executions of the locals. people was built on a steep bank. 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