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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Experience history \u2013 The fate of children; An encounter an with an eyewitness:
\nOf course, Janez \u017dmavc (94), the \u2018father of Slovenian road construction technology\u2019, was once a child too. In 1942, aged 10, he was among a group of people \u2013 including children and young people ranging in age from a few months to 18 years \u2013 who were arrested as part of secret measures taken by the German occupying forces to suppress resistance against the occupation regime and taken to a transit camp in Celje. On 20 September 1942, they were deported from Celje to specially established camps in the German Reich for \u2018re-education and Germanisation\u2019, whilst their mothers were sent to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Janez \u017dmavc is one of the still living \u2018stolen children\u2019.
\nBack in Slovenia, he completed his A-levels, went on to have a distinguished career in road construction technology, and served for many years as president of the \u2018Association of Former Camp Inmates \u2013 Stolen Children\u2019, a role now taken over by Aleksandra Hribar, herself the \u2018child of a stolen child\u2019.
\nHow does a child experience and survive such circumstances? How does this shape the rest of their life? What about their own children and grandchildren? Given this background, how does a person view wars and the fate of children today?
\nThese are just some of the questions posed by Zoja Klara Hrup, Ana Deli\u0107, Anja Zupanc Mastnak and Maks Vasle from Celje during a discussion with Janez \u017damvc and Aleksandra Hribar on 4 November 2026 at the Museum of Contemporary History in Celje.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A project as part of\u00a0 \u201eJugend schreibt\u201c (Youth writes) with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/a>\/FAZ; under the patronage of the Municipality of Celje<\/a>; Project management\/Photos (c): INSTITUT DISCIMUS LAB<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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