How Could Slovenian Fighter Albina Mali-Hočevar Look Before the Wound

Albina Mali-Hočevar (1925–2001) was an extremely brave Slovenian anti-fascist resistance fighter and national hero, who was wounded three times in combat and fought to liberate Yugoslavia from 1941 until 1944.

Here’s the face of a once beautiful girl was disfigured by war, and let’s take a look at how she could look before the wound.

Here’s the colorized version.

Albina joined the People’s Liberation Movement at 16. She was wounded twice at 17, and wounded again by an exploding mine three days after her 18th birthday. She continued fighting and working as a nurse for the rest of the war (another two years).

In 1946 she granted the Partisan Memorial 1941, which was awarded to all fighters of the Yugoslavian National Liberation Movement who had served since 1941. In 1952 Albina was awarded the Order of the People’s Hero, in the category of Women National Heroes, which was the highest award in Yugoslavia at the time.

Albina Mali-Hočevar lived until the age of 75.

See Rare Photos of Young Melania Trump's Early Career as a Model at 16 in Slovenia

Melania Trump, wife of Donald Trump, had a long career as a model before she came a political wife and mother. She started her modeling career as a teenager in her native Slovenia.

Melania likely was not yet 17 when she was approached by well-known Slovenian photographer Stane Jerko who proposed she model for him.

“My eye of a professional photographer always looking for girls to photograph, for fashion, for ads, so I quickly noticed this tall girl, slender with a good figure, long legs,” Jerko calmly recalled during an interview with Univision at his home in Liubjiana.

When friends who worked in fashion saw the photographs, they contacted her. The next fall, Melania took a modeling course and posed for fashion magazines.

Jerko thought at first that Melania had a very good future in modeling but after two sessions, he lost enthusiasm.

“Her exterior was very good to be an excellent model, but she lacked energy, a certain charm that if you have, you transmit it through your eyes, through your personality. If you have something that, shall we say, comes from the heart, it shows in the photo,” the photographer said.

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83 Fantastic Black and White Snapshots Documented Everyday Life of Ljubljana, Slovenia in the Early 1960s

Ljubljana is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. During antiquity, it was the site of a Roman city called Emona. It was under Habsburg rule from the Middle Ages until the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918.

Situated at the middle of a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, it was the historical capital of Carniola, a Slovene-inhabited part of the Habsburg Monarchy. Its central geographic location within Slovenia, transport connections, concentration of industry, scientific and research institutions, and cultural tradition are contributing factors to its leading position.

Here below is an amazing collection of 83 black and white snapshots that shows everyday life of Ljubljana in the early 1960s.

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