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Genre: full-length documentary film
\nDuration: 95 min
\nYear: 2007
\nScreenplay: Miran Zupani\u010d
\nDirector: Miran Zupani\u010d
\nFeaturing: Ivan Ott, Ljuba Brglez, Terezija Cenc Osterman, Ditrih Karl Jani\u010d, Rudolf Ernst Jani\u010d, Bogomir Komidar, Herman Kuessel, Franc Helmut Kindlhofer, Agica Lorbek, Elica Nerat, Albina Podkoritnik, Guenter Slamer, Leon Turn\u0161ek.
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\u201cI never knew where I came from, who my ancestors were, and what part of Slovenia I was born in. I never knew what a family is, what a father is, what a mother is.\u00a0I never knew these words.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leon Turn\u0161ek<\/p>\n
Among us live the people who look just like everybody else. They were born between 1929 and 1944. They were hiding their secret for decades. They were compelled to keep silent. Not to say a word about what they lived through. Otherwise, they were threatened, the dark will take away them and the people they would reveal the secret to.
\n<\/span>When they were children their parents were killed and the children were separated from their siblings and displaced to war orphanages, given away to foster families or were adopted. Some of them were too young to remember any of it; they just had a premonition something terrible had happened to them. It took them years to find out who they really were.
\nOn 9th May 1945, the end of World War II in Europe set about the punishment of the defeated. The Allies established the N\u00fcrnberg Military Tribunal and by doing so showed they respected the moral and legal standards according to which also notorious criminals were given the right to a trial and were not condemned until proven guilty by the court. The same applied to lesser Nazi officials and followers of the Nazi political party. On the other hand, the punishing was different in countries governed by the communists. One such country was Yugoslavia. Precise number of the so-called nation\u2019s enemies, killed in Yugoslavia after the 9th May 1945, without being tried, will never be known, but it certainly amounts to ten thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands. Of men, women and children.
\nThe film The Children from Petri\u010dek Hill talks about those children\u2019s destinies. About the children who were imprisoned together with their parents in the war camp Teharje at Celje. In June 1945 the children were separated from their parents and taken to a children camp, Petri\u010dek; their parents were killed without having been tried at a court and buried at unknown places. The children were submitted to a severe re-education, forced into abandoning their true identity and into assuming a new one. They lost their parents and their childhood, and they were inflicted wounds so deep that have not healed up to today.<\/p>\nGallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t