September 1944 · 29 January 1945 · 4 April 1945 Partisans, and the front that stoppedPartizáni a front, ktorý sa zastavil

The Slovak National Uprising began on 29 August 1944. Važec people supplied and hid partisans, among them the brigade Za slobodu Slovanov — “For the Freedom of the Slavs” — and in September 1944 partisans ambushed a German unit near the village; after the war Važec was decorated for its part. The front reached the village on 29 January 1945 and Važec was liberated that day. Then the advance stopped. Liptovský Mikuláš, forty kilometres down the same valley, was not taken until 4 April 1945, so for more than two months Važec lay immediately behind a front line that would not move.Slovenské národné povstanie sa začalo 29. augusta 1944. Važčania zásobovali a ukrývali partizánov, medzi nimi brigádu Za slobodu Slovanov, a v septembri 1944 partizáni pri obci prepadli nemeckú jednotku; po vojne dostal Važec za svoj podiel vyznamenanie. Front prišiel k dedine 29. januára 1945 a v ten deň bol Važec oslobodený. Potom sa postup zastavil. Liptovský Mikuláš, štyridsať kilometrov dolu tou istou dolinou, padol až 4. apríla 1945 — Važec teda vyše dvoch mesiacov ležal tesne za frontovou líniou, ktorá sa nehýbala.