Mitja Ferenc (21 March 1960) is a Slovenian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, educator, and author. Ferenc was born in

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, the son of renowned historian and partisan Tone Ferenc. He graduated from modern history at the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students. History Beginnings Although certain ...

in 1985. Since 2000, he has researched the graves of people killed on Slovenian territory by the Yugoslav Communist regime after the end of World War II in the

Bleiburg repatriations The Bleiburg repatriations ( see terminology) occurred in May 1945, after the end of World War II in Europe, during which Yugoslavia had been occupied by the Axis powers, when tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians associated with the Axis ...

. Between 2002–04, Ferenc was a member of the Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia established by the Slovenian Government to document the 581 mass graves from Communist era found in Slovenia. Ferenc contributed to the European Public Hearing on "Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" organised by Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the

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(January–June 2008) and the

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. His work was featured in the chapter "Secret World War Two Mass Graves in Slovenia".European Public Hearing on "Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes”
Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (January–June 2008) and the European Commission, at pg. 155. Ferenc teaches history at the

. He has written several books on the history of the Gottschee German community.

Major works

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Franja Partisan Hospital Franja Partisan Hospital ( sl, Partizanska bolnica Franja) was a secret World War II hospital at Dolenji Novaki near Cerkno in western Slovenia. It was run by the Slovene Partisans from December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broad ...

'' (Ljubljana: Ministry of Culture, Cultural Heritage Office of Slovenia, 2002). *''Gottschee: the lost cultural heritage of the Gottscheer Germans'' (Louisville, CO: Gottscheer Heritage and Genealogy Association, 2001). *''Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na Kočevskem - Former German Linguistic Island in the Kočevje Region'' (Kočevje: Pokrajinski muzej, 2007). *''Prikrito in očem zakrito: prikrita grobišča 60 let po koncu druge svetovne vojne'' ("Hidden to the Eyes: Hidden Graves 60 Years After the End of World War Two") (Celje: Muzej novejše zgodovine, 2005). *''Prikrivena grobišta Hrvata u Republici Sloveniji - Hidden Graves of Croats in the Republic of Slovenia'' (Zagreb: Počasni bleiburški vod, 2007).

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