On 8 May 2013, a memorial to women’s demonstrations during the Second World War was unveiled in front of the former military lodge at Metelkova.

This memorial is the final act of marking all locations in Ljubljana where brave women gathered and demonstrated against the occupation in the middle of World War II. In demonstrations in 1942 and 1943, women demanded the release of thousands of prisoners and internees from Nazi and Fascist concentration camps and occupiers’ prisons; many assembled and initially requested and thereafter demanded rights for their loved ones.

Women’s demonstrations in Ljubljana on 21 June 1943, as part of more than six months of women’s demonstration and protest activities that year, were approaching the peak of the protest movement, which was then reached with demonstrations outside the court jail and Palace of Justice on 1 August 1943.

Since March 2009, all necessary measures related to erecting a memorial have been led by the Expert Commission for Examination and Presentation of Events at Women’s Demonstrations outside Ljubljana Cathedral and the Possibilities of Erecting a Memorial, headed by City Councillor Full Professor Dr Milena Mileva Blažić.

The Commission also comprised Dr Uroš Grilc, Slovenian Minister of Culture, then head of the City of Ljubljana’s Culture Department, Prof Dr Božo Repe, Ljubljana University Faculty of Arts, Gojko Zupan MA, Slovenian Ministry of Culture, Dr Vida Deželak Barič, Institute of Contemporary History, Prof Dr Vladimir Simič, Ljubljana University Faculty of Law and Prof Dr France M. Dolinar, then Head of the Archdiocesan Archive in Ljubljana.