Archivalias of the Month in 2025

Archivalias of the Month

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  January 2025

  Concession for the Lower Carniola Railway Line Ljubljana-Novo mesto-Straža with the Branch Line for Kočevje

  About a year ago, Mr. Walter Heimerl-Lesnik from St. Pölten purchased a charter at willhaben.at that he believed to be a reproduction. When he was surprised to discover that it was an original, he decided to donate it to »its homeland«. The charter arrived at the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia in November 2024 through the Slovenian Embassy in Vienna. Our new acquisition is presented here as the first archivalia of the month in 2025.

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  February 2025

  The Persecution of Homosexuals in Ljubljana in 1913

  This month's archivalia first briefly presents the attitude of the authorities toward homosexuality throughout history. It then moves to a partially preserved file of the State Prosecutor's Office in Ljubljana, revealing how, just a few years before the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, persecutions of homosexuality primarily targeted the so-called "little people". A young vagrant in Ljubljana was sentenced to 14 months of imprisonment for it.

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  March 2025

  Donate for Winter Help

  The propaganda poster by painter Jože Beránek bearing the slogan Donate for Winter Help was created to address the people on the streets of Ljubljana during the winter of 1944. Despite its political context, it carries a universal message: the greatest victims of all wars are children. By choosing to present this poster, which was printed on lower-quality paper that is irreversibly deteriorating, we also want to highlight the importance of the preservation of our cultural heritage.