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…
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…
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…