On 27 January 2012, Posta Slovenije will issue a new stamp entitled "70th Anniversary of the barbed wire fence around Ljubljana". The stamp was designed by Matjaz Ucakar.
Ljubljana was destined to remain an enormous enclosed camp until it was liberated on 9 May 1945. Only then was the wire removed and the bunkers demolished – symbols of people's suffering and resistance and their fight for freedom.
The wire fence was replaced by trees, which today surround the city like a green ring.
Today the line of the fence has become the Path of Memories and Comradeship, a unique historical monument, which is at the same time a monument of landscaped nature and Ljubljana's largest green recreation area. A popular event known as the "March along the Wire" is held every year on Liberation Day.
