cave, so their screams were heard for hours. In some cases the soldiers threw in hand grenades to finish those that were still alive. Most of Home Guards from group C were killed by mid June. After their liquidation, the second wave of purges began, this time of Home Guards from group B. They were encouraged by a dispatch from Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia Edvard Kardelj to Slovenian Prime Minister Boris Kidrič on 25 June that stated: By the end of June, mostly prisoners younger than 18 remained in the camp. A new selection was made and around 100 Home Guards were taken with trucks to the surroundings of Celje and killed there. On 21 June, 11 prisoners tried to escape from the camp. They cut through the first fence, managed to pass the guard and jumped over the second fence. Seven were caught and four managed to run away. The largest mass grave of prisoners from Teharje is an abandoned coal mine in Huda Jama, where Home Guards were killed in the Barbara Pit massacre. Other mass grave locations include Hrastnik, Pečovnik, Marija Reka, Zgornja Hudinja, Prapretno and Bežigrad. Amnesty and camp dissolution The first prisoners that were released from the camp were civilians at the beginning of July. Before they left, they were photographed and their fingerprints were taken. Between 19 and 24 July, a court-martial tried the remaining Home Guards. All of them were sentenced to penal labour, mostly for the duration of several months to one year. The AVNOJ presidency passed a decree on general amnesty and pardon on 3 August. 371 Home Guards were released during August in accordance with the amnesty. The camp was turned into a penal camp and renamed the Teharje Forced Labor Institute. It existed until October 1946, when most of the remaining prisoners were transferred to Maribor. Yugoslav camps for forced labour formally existed until January 1946, when they were renamed "institutions for forced labour", but continued to operate the same way. Around 7,000 to 8,000 people passed through the Teharje camp. Out of 5,000 Slovene Home Guards, only several hundred were still in the camp when the general amnesty was given in August 1945. After the camp's closure, the barracks were removed. In 1974 the area of the former camp was turned into a waste depot for the chemical processing factory in Celje. A golf course was built