{"id":23141,"date":"2025-04-19T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/2025\/04\/19\/echoes-of-victory\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:30:54","slug":"echoes-of-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/echoes-of-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">Temporary photograph<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">ic<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\"> exhibition of the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia entitled <\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">Echoes of Victory: Photographs of Cro<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">w<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">ds at the End of World War II<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">, created in collaboration with the Slovene Ethnographic Museum and the Archdiocesan Archives of Ljubljana, sheds light on the last days of World War II and the echoes of victory in May 1945 on Slovene ethnic territory. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW23840395 BCX8\">Franc<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\"> Cerar, Karol <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW23840395 BCX8\">Holynski<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">, Jo\u017ee <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW23840395 BCX8\">Kolo\u0161a<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">, Marjan Pfeifer, Slavko Smolej, Rudi Stopar, Edi <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW23840395 BCX8\">\u0160elhaus<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">, Nande Vidmar, Rudi <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW23840395 BCX8\">Vavpoti\u010d<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\"> were photographers who <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">accompanied<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\"> the end of the war and whose photographs are mostly kept in the museum&#8217;s Foto Slovenija collection. The motifs depicting the arrival of the Partisan army in various cities show an exceptional mass presence. Mass participation was achieved <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">at<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">numerous<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">rallie<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">s that took place day after day in May 1945. The fallen fighters of the Partisan army experienced a dignified and mass farewell with a mourning ceremony in the Cathedral in Ljubljana and a funeral in <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW23840395 BCX8\">\u017dale<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">. The end of the war was greeted by <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">the majority of<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\"> the population with expressions of joy, happiness and hope for a better future, with great confidence in the new political authorities, which was expressed in <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">countless<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\"> textual and pictorial banners at post-war events. After the mass withdrawal of various military units after the end of the war, piles of discarded weapons and equipment remained on Sloven<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">e<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\"> territory. The last motif in the exhibition is a photograph of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">a large number of<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\"> rifles that remained without an owner. The motif thus symbolically concludes the photographic narrative of a difficult, multi-year period for the Sloven<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">e<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\"> nation, which caused much suffering and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">many <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">emotional wounds<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW23840395 BCX8\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW23840395 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Exhibition is due 3 September 2025.[vc_single_image image=&#8221;20158&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temporary photographic exhibition of the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia entitled Echoes of Victory: Photographs of Crowds at the End of World War II, created in collaboration with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27186,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23141\/revisions\/27186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzej-nz-ce.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}