Today 100 years ago the Russian Andrey Cherepov died, being the last allied prisoner of war who died in the Netherlands as a result of World War One. Andrey Mikhailovich Cherepov was born in Kromy in Oryol Governorate in South-West Russia, and served as a soldier in the 144th Kashirskiy Read more…
In an attempt to understand why the mortality among Serbian soldiers was higher than for others, we tried to trace them back through the German and Austrian camp system. The results of that effort were published by the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade in an article called ‘Captivity and Read more…
Today we finished the reconstruction of the fate of two brothers, Dragomir and Sreten Rajičić from Gornji Milanovac, who both ended up in Austrian and then German captivity, and both came to Netherlands after the war. Dragomir was a medical orderly with the Serbian sanitation, Sreten an NCO with the Read more…
Giovanni Saporiti from Italy Panic! Italian soldiers flee off the mountain trails, diving into the canyon road. In this impassable landscape, quite different from the endless plains with trenches around Ypres in northern France, already more than 300,000 soldiers have lost their lives. While there is barely a meter of Read more…
“Mort pour la France” : Édouard Roland Édouard François Georges Roland is born on 23 April 1884 in Craon in France, a town with a few thousand people. There, 300 kilometers southwest of Paris, he works on the land in the nearby town Pommerieux. War He was 30 years when Read more…
Ever since we started our quest in 2012, two issues regarding Garderen had boggled our minds: how was it possible that only 29 graves were there, when we knew that officially 30 Serbian soldiers had died in the camp? And: when was the original monument erected? Thorough and systematic research in the 1919-1938 Read more…
Our site is now also connected to the WWI platform in the Netherlands: www.eerstewereldoorlog.nu . This after someone of our team visited the network day of this coordination platform about the First World War in the Netherlands. The link where you can find our website: http://www.eerstewereldoorlog.nu/agenda/secanje/
Here you will find pictures from the remembrance service which was held the 4th October 2014 in Garderen the Netherlands. The service was held for the Serbian World War I soldiers who died in the Netherlands and was held in front of the monument dedicated to them. Pictures from Sveta Read more…
The team of secanje.nl was in Jindřichovice, a village near Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic on 28th June 2014. A commemoration service was held for the Serbian and Russian WWI soldiers who are placed in the mausoleum in Jindřichovice. Photo below: The mausoleum in Jindřichovice (CZ), 28.06.2014 Between 1915 Read more…
The Russian photographer Vova Pomortzeff who lives in Prague published today a photo reportage about the abandoned cemetery in Jindřichovice (during WWI it was called still Heinrichsgrün). Between both world wars the Serbian graves were exhumed and the remains were colelcted in the mausoleum there. In that mausoleum also the remains Read more…