Jelka Mrak Dolinar

Jelka Mrak Dolinar (born May 3, 1925 in Kranjska Gora ; † July 23, 2018 ) was a Slovenian author .

Life

Fascism, National Socialism and Communism caused flight and suffering in the author's family. In May 1945 she was interned by the Tito communists after an "assembled" trial and spent the period between 1945 and 1951 in communist concentration camps in Yugoslavia. After her amnesty, she studied English in Ljubljana . While still studying, she managed to escape to her parents in Austria, where she ran the kindergarten and school for Slovenian refugee children in the Spittal / Drau refugee camp. Jelka Mrak Dolinar last lived in Spittal / Drau, Austria, and was among other things as the author of numerous articles in Slovenian periodicals, but also as a contributor in documentaries ("Angela Vode-skriti spomini", Radio Televizija Slovenija, 2009, directed by Maja Weiss and " Odkrivanje skritega spomina Angele Vode “, Radio Televizija Slovenija, 2011, directed by Maja Weiss), admonishing contemporary witness.

Works

Books

• Brazde mojega življenja , Družina publishing house, Ljubljana 2009, ISBN 978-961-222-744-9
• Furrows of my life , from the Slovenian Dr. Reginald Vospernik, Kitab-Verlag, Klagenfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-902585-44-8
• Temna stran meseca-kratka zgodovina totalitarizma v Sloveniji 1945–1990, Drago Jančar, Nova revija Verlag, Ljubljana 1998
• Brez milosti - ranjeni, invalidi in bolni povojni ujetniki na Slovenskem, ISBN 961-6352-08-3
• Lovro Šturm, Nova revija Verlag, Ljubljana 2000, ISBN 962-6353-08-3 .

content

In her works, the author describes her parents' escape from the fascists from Primorska (area around Trieste / Trst and Görz / Gorica), the evacuation by the National Socialists from Skopje (1941), their flight to Slovenia and imprisonment there as well as their internment in 1945 the communists. As a twenty year old she spent more than five and a half years in various communist concentration camps in Yugoslavia. In doing so, she had to do heavy labor under the toughest conditions as a forced laborer in road construction work in swamp areas, despite typhus, dysentery and other diseases - only because she did not want to leave seriously wounded Domobrancen (Slovenian home guard) to their fate as a volunteer Red Cross helper. The fate of Jelka and her sister Krista was sealed in an "assembled" trial by Mitja Ribičič, the communist secret service chief who is still alive at the time. Miraculously, the author and her sister survived this ordeal in the labor camps.

Movies

• Angela Vode-skriti spomini, Radio Televizija Slovenija 2009, directed by Maja Weiss
• Odkrivanje skritega spomina Angele Vode, Radio Televizija Slovenija 2011, directed by Maja Weiss

Reviews / evidence

• Boris Pahor (Trst / Trieste / Triest) letter from July 25, 2010
• Ognjišče 4/2009, Pričevanje Jelke Mrak Dolinar
• Moja Slovenija 3/2009, Življenjska zgodba večkratne izseljenke
• Družina 8/2009, Osebnost tedna: Jelka Mrak Dolinar, "Pet let, sedem mesecev"
  • 2/2009, medijska priloga; Pristen pogled v preteklost (Ivo Žajdela)
• Novice 7/2009, O moči in nemoči človeka v usodnih neurjih (Emanuel Polanšek)
• Nedelja 2/2009, V žarišču - Na Kalvariji povojnih zaporov (Vincenc Gotthart)
• Reporter 4/2009, Bojazen pred novim dokumentarnim filmom
• Dom-časopis beneških Slovencev February 14, 2009 (Miran Mihelič)
• Demokracija, Družina, Naš tednik, Naša luč, Nedelja, Slovenec, Zaveza

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Umrla je Jelka Mrak Dolinar , accessed on July 27, 2018