Text and photographs by Mary L. Peachin
Vol. 11 No. 2
Gravely wounded, World War II Slovenia armed forces, U.S. pilots, and soldiers of other nationalities were carried blindfolded through the rushing waters of the barely accessible and narrow Pasice gorge. Hidden at the summit, was a simple hospital. A facility that saved more than 500 lives between 1943 and 1945.
The hospital primarily treated soldiers from the 9th Corps of the Slovene Partisan Army engaged in warfare with the Nazi German Army in the Primorsko and Gorenjska region. After suffering severe causalities in the field, the idea of building a hidden partisan hospital to care for these dying men began to take root.