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…
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).
On the 2nd November 2017 we were honoured to present the results of our research to H.E. Mr. Dačić, the Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Serbian Foreign Minister and Serbian ambassador H.E. prof. dr Nikšić & Dutch ambassador H.E. van den Dool. The event was hosted by the Serbian Read more…
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…
The people from the website Europeana requested us to wrote a blog about our research, which we did in English &Serbian& Dutch. On Europeana you find material from galleries, libraries, archives and museums from all over Europe that want to share their collections with a wider audience, whether it is Read more…