The Serbian newspaper ” Vesti” published on 16/10/2019 an article about the commemoration at the monument in Garderen in the Netherlands and mentioned also our research. Our friends from Vesti allowed it to publish it here on on our website. Click on the picture below to download the pdf file Read more…
The yearly commemoration in Garderen will be on 5th October by the monument (Begraafplaats Craatshof, Koningsweg 30, 3886 KC Garderen). It starts at 14h00. After the memorial service there is a posibility to meet each other in the building called “Kruimelstaete” ( Oud-Millingseweg 34, Garderen). For more information & contact , please Read more…
Hundred years ago, on 29/06/1919, there was a service in the Russian church in the Hague for the 90 Serbian WWI soldiers who died in the Netherlands and ” het Algemeen Dagblad ” wrote about it on 01/07/1919 (link). Mourning ceremony Last Sunday [29 June] In the Russian church in The Read more…
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…
Arius van Tienhoven was a Dutch doctor who served during the Balkan wars and the First World War in several Red Cross missions. During these missions he took many pictures and they give a rare insight in these kind of missions and of life in general during these years. During 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…
It is now 100 years ago that the 91 Serbian WWI soldiers of our research died in the Netherlands. Since 2012 the team of secanje.nl did everything to give them a name, a face and a place in history so that they would not be forgotten. Of these 91 soldiers Read more…
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…