30 August 1944 · 4 September 1944 · 1945 Burned for helping the partisansVypálená za pomoc partizánom

The Slovak National Uprising broke out on 29 August 1944, and fighting reached Štrba the next day, 30 August. German units were in the Tatra foothills within the week. On 4 September 1944 German troops burned part of the village in reprisal for helping partisans: more than twenty-five buildings went up. The front came back at the end of January 1945 as the Soviet advance pushed west — neighbouring Važec was taken on 29 January — and then it stopped. Liptovský Mikuláš, less than forty kilometres down the valley, held out until 4 April 1945. Štrba spent that winter immediately behind a front line that would not move.Slovenské národné povstanie vypuklo 29. augusta 1944 a boje sa k Štrbe dostali hneď na druhý deň, 30. augusta. Nemecké jednotky boli pod Tatrami do týždňa. 4. septembra 1944 vypálili nemeckí vojaci časť obce ako odvetu za pomoc partizánom — zhorelo vyše dvadsaťpäť budov. Front sa vrátil koncom januára 1945, keď sovietsky postup tlačil na západ; susedný Važec oslobodili 29. januára. A potom sa zastavil. Liptovský Mikuláš, necelých štyridsať kilometrov dolu dolinou, sa držal až do 4. apríla 1945. Štrba prežila tú zimu tesne za frontovou líniou, ktorá sa nehýbala.