Bukovžlak

Bukovžlak is the site of six known mass graves from the period immediately after the Second World War. They are part of the 25 mass graves in the Celje area. They all contain the remains of an unknown number of people from the Celje concentration camps murdered in the summer of 1945. The Čater Meadow 1 and 2 mass graves (Slovene: Grobišče na Čatrovem travniku 1, 2) are located about 550 m north of the central monument at the Teharje memorial park, on the right side of the road from Bukovžlak to Ljubečna.[6][7] The Municipal Dump Mass Grave (Grobišča pod komunalno deponijo) is located next to the Teharje memorial park, on the north side of the local dump.[8] The Military Depot Mass Grave (Grobišča na območju vojaških skladišč) is located between the municipal dump and the titanium gypsum waste dump, about 600 m east of the Teharje memorial park.[9] The Meadow Barrier Mass Grave (Grobišče v pregradi Za travnikom) is located about 800 m east of the Teharje memorial park. Human remains were uncovered in 1989 while building an earthen barrier for the waste dump for the zinc works. The remains were bulldozed into the new barrier.[10] The Bežigrad Mass Grave (Grobišče Bežigrad) encompasses a former antitank trench that ran from the Janez Mlinar Manor (Dvorec Mlinarjev Janez, which was used as a headquarters by the Teharje prison camp officials[11]) to the Sodina house near the EMO factory, a gravel pit, a firing trench, other pits, and a spruce woods. The grave contains the remains of a large number of German prisoners of war, ethnic German civilians, Home Guard soldiers, Slovene civilians, Ustaša soldiers, Romani civilians, and Gottschee Germans that were murdered in May, June, and July 1945.[12]