In the mid-afternoon of 30 August 1944, seven of the eight POWs walked away from the work site under various pretexts, and met the Partisan agent, who led the group to a village, Lovrenc na Pohorju, which had been temporarily liberated from German control.
Lovrenc na Pohorju, a settlement in the Municipality of Lovrenc na Pohorju, known as Sveti Lovrenc na Pohorju until 1952