Friday 14th December 2018 a presentation will be held in the Museum of Rudnik and Takovo Region in Gornji Milanovac (Sinđelićeva 7, Gornji Milanovac 323000) at 19h00 (link). The presentation and exhibition will be about the Serbian WWI soldiers from Gornji Milanovac who died in the Netherlands and from whom one Read more…
The yearly commemoration in Garderen will be on 6th October by the monument (Begraafplaats Craatshof, Koningsweg 30, 3886 KC Garderen). After the memorial service there is a posibility to meet each other in the building called “Kruimelstaete” ( Oud-Millingseweg 34, Garderen).
The team of secanje.nl climbed on 18/058/2018 the mountain Kajmakčalan which is a 2,524 meters high mountain on the Macedonian-Greek border. Between September 12 and September 30 1916, a WWI-battle took place between the Serbian army and the Bulgarian army on this mountain. It was the first victory for the Serbian army after Read more…
As you have maybe noticed :we have a new website ! We had to change from a free host to a paid host, we used the opportunity to also have our website renewed. We could not pay a company to do this for us, as we are are all volunteers Read more…
This website is dedicated to the Serbian World War I soldiers who died in the Netherlands. A monument in Garderen is dedicated to the memory of them. To read their story you can read the introduction. Below you can read the latest news items. This website is in three languages: English, Serbian and Read more…
On 14 June we published Đorđe Vukosavljević’ wartime letters on Europeana. The letters he sent during his imprisonment in German prisoner of war camps were provided with the kind permission of his great-granddaughter Zorica Jelača. The publication was accompanied by a guest blog on Europeana 1914-1918 entitled ‘Tamo daleko (There, far away) – a Read more…
The discovery was already made in August 2017, but now there was time to write and publish the story about Dragutin Milutinović from Brović. For the full story click here (link).
We are proud to announce that we have found the descendants of Radosav Jovičić in Veliki Borak (SRB) who died in the Dordrecht (NL) on the 26th January 1919. As researchers you need sometimes luck to find what you are looking for and to get in touch with the right Read more…
An article on a Dutch website about history (www.historiek.net) appeared. Historiek is website frequently visited & updated. The link to the article is here: http://historiek.net/de-spaanse-griep-1919-servische-slachtoffers-op-de-veluwe/69805/ On Friday 30/06/2017 an article appeared in the Serbian Politikin Zabavnik. You can buy this magazine all over Serbia and abroad. Here the link to the Read more…
We made a new discovery, with the help of the Association of War Veterans Descendants from the Braničevo region: we found the family of Mihajlo Avramović from Carevac. For the full story click here (link).