Huda Jama (pronounced [ˈxuːda ˈjaːma], German: Hudajama)[2][3] is a settlement east of Laško in east-central Slovenia.
[5]: 183 During the Second World War, the Partisans attacked German positions at Huda Jama on 2 July 1942 and 25 March 1944.
[5]: 195 The Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia has identified the site of a mass grave with remains of bodies of hundreds of victims of extrajudicial killings from the period immediately after the Second World War in a nearby abandoned coal mine known as the Barbara Pit (Slovene: Barbara rov), also known as the Huda Jama Mass Grave (Grobišče Huda jama) or the Saint Barbara Abandoned Mine Shaft Mass Grave.
[6][7] It is presumed the victims, the exact number of which has not been determined, were Slovene Home Guard troops, Slovene and Croatian civilians, Ustaša soldiers, and Croatian Home Guard troops executed by the Partisans,[7] and 10 percent of the victims were women.
[8] In 2009, 769 victims were exhumed from the site, and in 2016 an additional 647; they were interred in the Dobrava Cemetery in southeastern Maribor.