Mitja Ferenc
Mitja Ferenc is a Slovenian historian, educator and author.
Mitja Ferenc was born in Ljubljana, the son of the renowned historian and Partisan Tone Ferenc. He graduated from modern history at the University of Ljubljana 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.
Between 2002-04, he 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.
Mitja Ferenc contributed to the European Public Hearing on "Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" organised by Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission. His work was featured in the chapter "Secret World War Two Mass Graves in Slovenia".
He teaches history at the University of Ljubljana. He has written several books on the history of the Gottschee German community.Major works
- Franja Partisan Hospital.
- Gottschee: the lost cultural heritage of the Gottscheer Germans.
- Nekdanji nemški jezikovni otok na Kočevskem - Former German Linguistic Island in the Kočevje Region.
- Prikrito in očem zakrito: prikrita grobišča 60 let po koncu druge svetovne vojne .
- Prikrivena grobišta Hrvata u Republici Sloveniji - Hidden Graves of Croats in the Republic of Slovenia.
