Ivan Adamič, a fifteen-year old student of the fourth year of the 2nd State grammar school, and Rudolf Lunder, a 22-year old printer, mechanical engineer in the National Printing House and singer of the choral society Slavec from Ljubljana, were accidental victims of the German military violence on the Pogačar trg square in Ljubljana on 20 September1908, during the battles between the Slovenian and German people. The bank of the Ljubljanica river in the very center of Ljubljana is named after them – Adamič Lundrovo nabrežje.
The full-body statue of Our Lady of Sorrow made of Tyrolean marble, is the work of the sculptor Svetoslav Peruzzi, the monument, designed the architect Ivo Spinčič, was built by the stonemason’s company Toman in Ljubljana. The monument was erected in 1933.
There is an inscription on the pedestal: V svobodi nam je zdaj skrivnost / očitna / naroda zarje se rode le v noči / njegova rast in moč so žrtvu- / joči / bolj od življenja smrt je rodovit- / na / Žrtve 20. septembra 1908 / Lunder Rudolf Adamič Ivan / Vindišar Arnošt. Arnošt ViNDIŠAR (died 1911).