| Lizika Jančar | |
| Birth Date: | 1919 10, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Maribor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes |
| Death Place: | Belo, Province of Ljubljana |
| Death Cause: | Shot |
| Nationality: | Slovene |
| Other Names: | Majda |
| Known For: | People's Hero of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation: | Espionage |
Elizabeta "Lizika" Jančar (nom de guerre Majda) (27 October 1919 – 20 March 1943)[1] was a Slovene Partisan.
Lizika Jančar was born in Maribor as the daughter of a railway worker that had also worked as a miner in Germany.[2] Jančar became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in 1937 in Maribor. She enrolled as a student at the Medical Faculty in Belgrade after finishing high school in Maribor. She relocated to Ljubljana and became a member of the Communist Party of Slovenia in April 1941, where she helped set up the illegal Kričač broadcaster.[1]
In February 1943 she joined the Dolomite Detachment of the Slovene Partisans and served as a wireless operator for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia to maintain contact with Moscow. She was captured by Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia forces on 19 March 1943 during the battle in the Belca Gorge (Slovenian: Belška grapa) above Belica and was shot the following day in Belo.[1] [3] A plaque was unveiled at the site, at the Lenart farm, in 1976.[4]
She was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia on 27 November 1953.
The Lizika Jančar Dormitory in Maribor (Slovenian: Dijaški dom Lizike Jančar Maribor) is named for her,[5] as is Lizika Jančar Street in Maribor (Slovenian: Ulica Lizike Jančar) and Ljubljana (Ulica Lizike Jančarjeve).