Javorovica is an Uskok village on the Gorjanci mountain range, in which thirteen lords lived before the Second World War. about a hundred souls.

Strong partisan units remained in Gorjanci in 1944; their task was to constantly disturb the enemy's outposts in the Krka river valley and to prevent the Germans and the Home Guard from crossing the Gorjanci to Žumberak, Bela Krajina and Croatia. On February 3, 1944, the 4th Battalion of the Cankar Brigade was stationed in Javorovica, replacing the battalion of the Gubč Brigade. The battalion was founded on May 9, 1943, the fighters were from all over Slovenia, and most of them were from Bela krajina and Dolenjska. It numbered about 300 fighters.

In the winter of 1943-1944, snow fell over his knees in Gorjanci, and the cold bit him to the bone. The fighters became accustomed to the inhabitants of Javorovica, thinking that in such weather no one would touch them. In the valley, however, the snow began to melt quickly in February. The Germans and home guards from the outpost in Kostanjevica found out that the time had come to attack the partisans in Gorjanci. The first foray was made on 18 February; the partisans withdrew, and the enemy surprised the Dolenjska field workers in Vrhpolje, who no longer had time to withdraw. Three were killed and a fourth was captured.

In the afternoon of the same day, the partisans returned to Javorovica, pleased to have driven the invaders back into the valley. They overlooked that this attack was only a blinding maneuver, the attackers on Javorovica wanted to find out which side the partisans would retreat to during the attack.

Among the fighters at Javorovica were most of the hardened partisans, who had already fought many battles; about ten were newcomers, or. mobilized. In the first days of March, two of the mobilized escaped to the Home Guard post on Kostanjevica and handed over a lot of information. With this information, the Home Guard lieutenant went to Ljubljana to see General Rossener and together they devised a plan to attack Javorovica.
In Novo mesto, on 15 March 1944, a battle group of the 14th SS Police Regiment was formed, numbering some 400 armed men, joined by some 200 home guards. The command was taken over by a German police officer. On March 16, 1944, at one o'clock in the morning, German trucks brought part of the army along the road along the left bank of the Krka to Draga, where the bridge was. The enemy developed into a long marching unit. Above Pleter it split into two columns; the plan was to form a solid ring around Javorovica before it seemed. Because there was a lot of snow in the mountains, and the command apparently did not know that there was already land in the valley, the partisans did not set up enough guards. One encirclement column struck at a partisan ambush, which was utterly surprised when the enemy fired upon it; quite a few fighters fell, only five or six of them returned to Javorovica after a whole day of persecution. The second encirclement column approached Javorovica from the north and west. Since it was foggy, they easily disabled the first guard and came to the village. Fleeing, half-dressed partisans were pushed from the houses to the clearing. The commander, in spite of great confusion, succeeded in preparing an outburst and an assault on the enemy's positions; but the village was surrounded, the last lifeline was the church of St. Ožbolt, where more than fifty partisans fell in the crossfire. Only nine of them escaped from the ring of fire.
Four severely wounded fighters made their way to the Kira partisan hospital in Pendirjevka; a few fighters escaped over the top of Gorjanci, among them Josef Grabner, a German who had escaped from the Germans somewhere in Notranjska and joined Cankar's battalion; in front of the church he was wounded and made himself dead, thus deceiving the assailants, who only took off his shoes and took away part of his clothes. After the enemy's retreat, he headed towards Žumberak, where he again encountered partisans.

When the fighting on Javorovica was over, the Home Guard gathered the captured partisans near the church, drove them into a ditch below it, lined up thirty-three prisoners there, ordered them to come down and shot them with sniper rifles. They then retreated back to the village and then set off with the Germans from Javorovica.

Due to the successful operation on Javorovica, General Rössener was nominated for a high decoration, the Golden Cross. The explanation states that the 4th Battalion of the Cankar Brigade was completely destroyed; that he had 132 dead. In Novo mesto, the Home Guard company was hailed by the comrades as the victors, who beat Cankar's battalion to the last man, although they later had to admit that some partisans had only escaped.
In fact, 113 partisans fell on Javorovica, and sixteen escaped.
Today, next to the ruins of the church on Javorovica, there is a memorial temple, where 113 names of the fallen are written on the plaque. Janez Lužar, a gunsmith, one of the surviving fighters from Javorovica, wrote a poem shortly afterwards in memory of his fallen comrades, ending with a verse:

“What? Revenge?
No!!! No!!!
This is not the solution!
Only style, friendship,
there will be satisfaction! ”