Museum of Hostages/ Muzej Talcev
Museum of Hostages/ Muzej Talcev
Museum of Hostages/ Muzej Talcev
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Miha P
Maribor, Slovenia8,940 contributions
Apr 2023 • Solo
Place is frozen in history. It is as it was years ago. You need to check opening time before your visit. Parking is behind the garden and cemetery of hostages. Area - park is great for short walks. It is a peaceful area, not as noisy als Avsenik museum.
Written 30 April 2023
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Miha P
Maribor, Slovenia8,940 contributions
May 2019 • Couples
Begunje manor house (now hospital) has small museum at the back. Warning and message from this small museum is just one - keep peace, don't kill hostages and be against any war. Grey small cells and inscriptions on the walls are very emotional. They describe difficult lives of more than 11.000 prisoners. Some 670 spent their last hours in this prison – after they were killed in Draga valley or on the yard. Museum is old and old fashioned. Entrance fee is low. Cemetery with buried hostages is near. Look at some sculptures there, too. Visit Draga valley near Kamen castle ruin and another cemetery with victims of Nazism.
Written 4 May 2019
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Alasdair R
Oxford, UK193 contributions
Jul 2016
If you speak neither German nor Slovenian most of the wall displays - wartime posters announcing the execution of prisoners - will mean little. Similarly the slovenian renditions of the haunting scratchings found on the walls will pass you by. There are some English translations of the history of the place which are interesting and tragic. Fundamentally you walk up a corridor off which there are cells which can be visited.The price of entry is very cheap - was it 2 or 4 euros - and it is worth a visit to remind and to warn us of the evil that men do.Fifteen to twenty minutes is sufficient.
Written 3 August 2016
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Achromatic
Zagreb, Croatia31 contributions
Apr 2016 • Couples
This is the most shocking museum i have ever visited, and i recommend it. I cried through all of it, but it was worth it. It leaves you with no words. My recommendation is to put a translation to few languages of inscribings on walls so that foreign tourists can read, or to have a guide. The story is this...
The mighty Katzenstein Mansion in the centre of the village of Begunje hides the dark story of World War II. This building housed the notorious Gestapo prisons between 1941 and 1945. A memorial museum displays cells with shocking records inscribed on their walls by the prisoners, and announcements made by the occupiers regarding executions.
The museum occupies a single-storey building in the north-western part of the residential wing of the mansion.
As many as 11,477 prisoners suffered in this prison during World War II, mostly members of the resistance movement from the Gorenjska region, but also some from other Slovene regions and abroad. From here, many were sent to concentration camps, mostly to Mauthausen and Dachau. An extreme form of the Nazi suppression of the love of liberty was the executions of hostages by gunshot; no less than 849 of the prison's inmates were executed.
In the park adjacent to the castle and in the nearby Draga Valley, a burial ground for 667 hostages and partisan fighters was arranged according to the plans drawn up by architect Edvard Ravnikar.
The mighty Katzenstein Mansion in the centre of the village of Begunje hides the dark story of World War II. This building housed the notorious Gestapo prisons between 1941 and 1945. A memorial museum displays cells with shocking records inscribed on their walls by the prisoners, and announcements made by the occupiers regarding executions.
The museum occupies a single-storey building in the north-western part of the residential wing of the mansion.
As many as 11,477 prisoners suffered in this prison during World War II, mostly members of the resistance movement from the Gorenjska region, but also some from other Slovene regions and abroad. From here, many were sent to concentration camps, mostly to Mauthausen and Dachau. An extreme form of the Nazi suppression of the love of liberty was the executions of hostages by gunshot; no less than 849 of the prison's inmates were executed.
In the park adjacent to the castle and in the nearby Draga Valley, a burial ground for 667 hostages and partisan fighters was arranged according to the plans drawn up by architect Edvard Ravnikar.
Written 24 April 2016
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Miha P
Maribor, Slovenia8,940 contributions
May 2018 • Couples
Politicians forgot one page of history. Dark cells in Begunje, huge bell near the entrance and many memorial stones to killed hostages are still very impressive, movable for ordinary people. No more wars and suffering is important message for all.
Written 21 May 2018
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Miha P
Maribor, Slovenia8,940 contributions
Oct 2017 • Friends
Historians preserved an old side building in Begunje. It is part of a castle (now a hospital) in bigger park. You can find two pavilions by Plečnik and preserved cemetery of hostages. More impressive is museum with preserved cells. Many people spent their last part of life in these cells. Walk slowly and remember that hate and killings are still present around us. Visit Draga valley, too.
Written 27 October 2017
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Lesley M
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May 2017 • Couples
This museum is part a castle that served as a gestapo prison during the time of Nazi occupation. The building has been used as a psychiatric hospital since 1952. The museum consists of former prison cells that were used to detain Partisans and their supporters before they were executed.There are shocking written records of prisoners left on the walls. In the park and nearby valley of Draga there are burial places of the hostages with striking memorials and grave markers.
Also in the meadow behind the museum is a beautiful bee house.
Also in the meadow behind the museum is a beautiful bee house.
Written 6 June 2017
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Miha P
Maribor, Slovenia8,940 contributions
Oct 2017 • Friends
Muzej talcev is Museum of Hostages in the small side building in Begunje Castle. You have more descriptions under English name.
Written 27 October 2017
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