page_title: Teharje camp
section_title: Memorial park
hierarchical_section_title: Teharje camp / Memorial park
caption_attribution_description: English: The Teharje Memorial Park, designed by Slovenian architect Marko Mušič, built in 2004
context_page_description: The Teharje camp was a concentration camp near Teharje, Slovenia, organised by the Yugoslav secret police after the end of World War II in Yugoslavia. It was primarily used for the internment of Slovene Home Guard prisoners of war, Germans and Slovene civilians.
  The camp was built in 1943 by German forces and was used as a military camp for Hitler Youth. It had six residential barracks and ten other buildings. The camp was abandoned for a short time after the war, but was reactivated by the Yugoslav communists at the end of May 1945 to accommodate former members of the Slovene Home Guard and others that had collaborated with the Germans, as well as civilians that had fled before the advancing Yugoslav People's Army to Allied camps in Austrian Carinthia. On 31 May 1945 the entire 2nd Assault Battalion headed by Vuk Rupnik was brought to Teharje, and in the first days of June 1945 approximately 3,000 members of the Slovene Home Guard joined them. It is estimated that the postwar authorities executed approximately 5,000 internees of Teharje without trial during the first month or two after the Second World War.
context_section_description: In 1993, the Slovenian government approved the plan to build a memorial park at the Teharje site, designed by Slovenian architect Marko Mušič. The memorial park, described as a "central symbolic monument of the Republic of Slovenia, dedicated to the memory of the victims of post-war killings in the territory of the country", was officially opened on 10 October 2004. It is the largest memorial in Slovenia. An annual ceremony in remembrance of the victims of post-World War II killings is held at the memorial site. In 2014, the park was recognised by the Slovenian government as a cultural monument of national significance.
caption: The Teharje Memorial Park was built in 2004
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