Respected Melbourne Slovenians, Virgilij and Dragica Gomizelj join us for a chat.

Mr and Mrs Virglilij and Dragica Gomizelj from Melbourne are well known and very respected within the Slovenian Community in Australia. Both joined us for an extended chat about their lives in Slovenia and Australia, their involvement within the Slovenian Community in Melbourne and how they met and married 67 years ago. Virgilij also spoke passionately about his time as a prisoner on Goli Otok and how he suffered terribly at the hands of the Communist regime simply for daring to challenge and criticise their authority! Virigilij recently celebrated his milestone 90th birthday in the company of his beautiful family and many friends at the Slovenian Association Melbourne where he and his wife have been members since its inception in 1954.

Source: Anica Markič, SBS Slovenian