I was able to breathe Celje air now and freedom in it
The Museum of Contemporary History of Celje (MNZC) has paid tribute to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with an outstanding exhibition that knocks on conscience and hides nothing. Some recently obtained objects, such as a poem book that was created in the infamous Celje Prison Old Pisker, are also exhibited. Visitors will also be able to read some never -published testimonies. Exhibition on war, victory and defeat, post -war showdown and political repression.
“We mark the eightieth anniversary of the end of the greatest and most delicious military confrontation in the history of mankind, which has caused immense destruction, pain and suffering and demanded millions of lives lost. In today’s Slovenian territory alone, almost one hundred thousand people, or 6.7 percent of the population of the time. Celje paid an even higher blood tax, since more than 1600 deaths or nine percent of the population had more than 1,600 deaths during the war and due to the data collected so far. Almost half in 1945, « the welcoming speech at the opening of the exhibition at the end of the war, lived peace! Celje 1945 began the author of the exhibition and director of the MNZCTonček Kregar.
“I was walking relaxed on the streets of Celje. Flags with a red star, Slovenian and Yugoslav, hung everywhere, and quickly sew many from the goods that were at hand. In many places, the ruins were reflected, the effects of the Allied bombing. The most claric was the view of the collapsed tower of the National House and the environment of the church of the church, which was also affected. But it was my place in which I was born and growing, which I carried within myself and with me long and across Europe, turned between life and death. Now I was able to breathe the Celje air and the freedom in it, ”wrote Bruno Hartman in On the way comes everything (Liter).
