https://doi.org/10.59132/zvs/2025/1/35-45
Izvleček
V prispevku predstavljam usodo slovenskih otrok, ki so bili leta 1942 vključeni v nacistični program Lebensborn. Ta je bil ustanovljen z namenom, da bi se povečalo število rojstev otrok arijske rase. Ko načrt ni popolnoma uspel, so nacisti začeli krasti otroke na okupiranem ozemlju. Predvsem se posvečam usodi Matevža Podvinška iz Gaberk pri Šoštanju, ki so ga kot 10-mesečnega dojenčka ukradli staršem in ga odpeljali v otroško zavetišče Kohren-Sahlis. Bil je eden izmed 30 dojenčkov, ki so jih Nemci odvzeli staršem. Leta 1943 sta dečka Matevža zase izbrala zakonca Uebe, ki naj ne bi vedela, da je ukraden. Pri njiju je odraščal do leta 1947, ko ga je pravi oče, ki je preživel Auschwitz, s pomočjo različnih organizacij dobil nazaj. Mati sinove vrnitve ni dočakala, saj je 6 mesecev po prihodu v taborišče umrla v plinski celici. Matevž Podvinšek je oče Matevža Podvinška, učitelja strokovnih predmetov na Šoli za strojništvo, geotehniko in okolje (ŠSGO) v Velenju. Dijaki 3. letnika srednjega strokovnega izobraževanja pri pouku književnosti med drugo svetovno vojno prek njegove pripovedi razmišljajo o preteklosti in njeni krutosti ter nadutosti ljudi, ki so bili prepričani, da jim je dovoljeno vse. Skozi pripoved dojemajo, da vojna prinaša trpljenje in da bi ga preprečili, mora biti v življenju vedno prisotna empatija, ki je potrebna, da človek ostane človek.
Abstract
Stolen Child Matevž Podvinšek
The article presents the fate of the Slovenian children included in 1942 in the Nazi Lebensborn program, implemented with the purpose of increasing the number of children born of the Aryan race. As the plan did not completely succeed, the Nazis started to steal children on the occupied territory. In the article, a particular focus is given to the fate of Matevž Podvinšek from Gaberke in the Municipality of Šoštanj, who was taken from his parents as a 10-month-old baby and placed in the children’s shelter Kohren-Sahlis. He was one of the thirty babies taken from their parents by the Nazis. In 1943, Matevž was chosen by a married couple by the name of Uebe, who were supposedly unaware that he had been stolen. They raised him until the year 1947, when his biological father, who survived Auschwitz, managed to get him back with the help of different organizations. His mother did not live to see his return as she died in the gas chamber six months after arriving in the concentration camp. Matevž Podvinšek is the father of Matevž Podvinšek, teacher of vocational courses at the School of Mechanical, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering in Velenje. In literature class on the Second World War, the third-year students enrolled in the secondary vocational education reflect, through his story, on the past and its cruelty, on the arrogance of people who believed they were allowed everything. Through his story, they realize that war brings suffering and that, in order to prevent it, there has to be empathy in our lives, necessary for a human to remain human.