{"id":794,"date":"2018-08-08T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T20:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secanje.nl\/?page_id=794"},"modified":"2018-08-10T11:08:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:08:21","slug":"milos-jeremic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.secanje.nl\/en\/results\/milos-jeremic\/","title":{"rendered":"Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107 – Resnik"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107 was born in 1892 in Resnik, a village 15km south of Belgrade, the capital of then the Kingdom of Serbia.<\/p>\n

In the night of 29 July 1914, when the shelling of Belgrade, and thus the First World War, started he was about 22 years old.<\/p>\n

According to his Serbian exhumation report he was serving the 3rd company, 4th battalion, 7th regiment infantry, while no rank was mentioned.<\/p>\n

Until recently, when Milo\u0161 (Tanasijevi\u0107) from Resnik visited our website and discovered that his great-great-grandfather Milo\u0161 died in the Netherlands, nobody from his family knew what happened exactly with Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107.<\/p>\n

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Below a picture of Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107, photo courtesy of his great-great-grandson Milo\u0161. Location and date of the photo are unknown.
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<\/sub><\/i>From Resnik (Serbia) to Nijmegen (NL)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Austrian-Hungarian invasion of Serbia started on 29 July 1914, but it failed after their armies where defeated during the battle of Cer (August 1914) and the battle of Kolubara (November-December 1914).<\/p>\n

Almost a year later, on 7 October 1915, the Kingdom of Serbia was invaded by a combined German and Austro-Hungarian force. On 14 October, the Bulgarians declared war. With his forces vastly outnumbered and outgunned, the Serbian Marshal (Vojvode) Radomir Putnik ordered a full retreat of the Serbian military south and west through Allied Montenegro and into neutral Albania on 25 November 1915.<\/p>\n

Many soldiers were killed, but many were also captured by the Bulgarians, Austrian-Hungarians and the Germans. The book \u201cBetween the Barbed Wire\u201d by Henri Habert describes the way, via different camps, about 38 Serbian POW’s who ended up in the Netherlands. While we have no proof of the road taken by Milo\u0161, most likely he followed the same way as his comrades described in the book.<\/p>\n

Most of them went via Braunau (now Broumov in the Czech Republic) or Heinrichsgr\u00fcn (now Jind\u0159ichovice in the Czech Republic) to Prisoner of War camps in mostly North-West Germany like Soltau, Hameln or B\u00fchnerbach.<\/p>\n

The descendants of Milo\u0161 gave a us a picture and in this picture there is an inscription which stated that the picture was made by E. Schultze from Emden, which is in the North-western part of Germany, close to the Dutch border, around 300 km from Nijmegen.<\/p>\n

On the back of the photo there is a stamp with the following information: Fotogr. Vergr\u00f6\u00dferungsanstalt Benditz, Zw. bd. Sielen 10, E. Schultze. The address Zwischen Beiden Sielen 10, is indeed located in the old town of Emden. The Benditz company in Emden was taken over by photographer Schultze (sometimes mentioned Schulze) in 1917.<\/p>\n

Below a picture of Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107, photo courtesy of his great-great-grandson Milo\u0161. Written in the picture is \u201cE Schultze Emden\u201d.\u00a0<\/sub><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the book from Henri Habert we found one soldier who described that he has been in Emden: \u201cFrom Heinrichsgr\u00fcn I was brought to Soltau, from where, after 14 days, with 200 men was sent to Emden where we loaded the ships with coal. There I worked 6 weeks, then I was sent to the camp of B\u00fchnerbach and from there, with 30 comrades to the domain of Krupp, near Klausheide where I worked 28 months\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Most likely Milo\u0161 arrived in Nijmegen, a city in the East part of the Netherlands, close to the border with Germany during his repatriation after the armistice of 11 November 1918. On his Dutch death certificate, it is written that he died on 18 January 1919 in Nijmegen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Below the locations, which we could verify, where Milo\u0161 has been (from Google Maps, click to enlarge). For the full map go to\u00a0<\/span>Google Maps (link)<\/a><\/i>.<\/i><\/sub><\/p>\n

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Nijmegen<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Milo\u0161 died in Nijmegen at around 23h00 on 18 January 1919 according his Dutch death certificate (Nijmegen 1919 No. 74). His death was registered by the Mattheus Havekes who was a cigar maker. The second person who registered his death was Lambertus Johannes Lammers, a soldier from the (Dutch) colonial reserve army who was 40 years old at the time he reported Milo\u0161\u2019 death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Milo\u0161 was not the only Serbian WWI soldier who died in Nijmegen: a total of 21 Serbian WW1 soldiers died in Nijmegen between 17 and 24 January 1919. On the day that Milo\u0161 died four of his other comrades also died: Velimir Dodolisko, Velisav Ivanovi\u0107, Serafim Kapovi\u0107 and Milisav Markovi\u0107. Most probably they died because of Spanish flu.<\/div>\n
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Burial and exhumation<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Milo\u0161 was buried in Nijmegen (Begraafplaats Rustoord, Postweg 60 in Nijmegen). His grave was exhumed in May 1938, together with the other Serbian graves in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Even though the newspaper articles in 1938 mentioned that the remains of \u201889 Serbian soldiers\u2019 were repatriated to \u2018Yugoslavia\u2019, the official documents of the time mention \u2018Czechoslovakia\u2019 as the destination.<\/p>\n

The remains of Milo\u0161 and 87 others were transferred to Jind\u0159ichovice in Czechoslovakia (nowadays Czech Republic) via the Dutch\/German border at Beek-Wyler. According to his Serbian exhumation report (no K. Br. 84024\/XII) his remains were collected in box number 4. Milo\u0161 found his last resting place in Jind\u0159ichovice, together with 7658 other Serbian soldiers and 189 Russian soldiers (calculated as on 1940).<\/p>\n

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Picture below: inside the mausoleum in Jind\u0159ichovice (CZ), with lead box number 4 (photo by Fabian Vendrig).<\/sub><\/i><\/p>\n

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1926: Monument in Resnik<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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As written in the introduction, his relatives did not know where Milo\u0161 died: they only knew he never returned home, so in 1926, when his wife Marica died, a monument in Resnik was erected to honour them both. This monument is until today still on the graveyard in Resnik.<\/p>\n

Picture below: the monument for Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107 in Resnik. 11.11.2015, photo by Fabian Vendrig. Click on the photo to enlarge.
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\n<\/i><\/sup><\/i><\/sup>Discovery<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In October 2015 we were contacted by Milo\u0161 Tanasijevi\u0107 who is the great great-grandson of Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107. He did send us the pictures and invited us to come to Resnik. The 11th November (commemoration day of the Armistice of WWI!) we went to visit him and his family to meet. His family did not know when and where Milo\u0161 died, until they discovered the information about Milo\u0161 which was already available on our website.<\/p>\n

Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107 was married with Marica: they got two sons \u017divko and \u017divota.\u00a0\u017divko had a daughter, Ljubinka, and two sons: Slobodan and Ljubodrag. Ljubodrag was the father of Zorica and Slavica. Zorica is the mother of Milo\u0161 and we are grateful that they both shared their stories and pictures with us.<\/p>\n

They shared the postcard below which was written by Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107 and which was send to his family: on the other side of this card there is a picture of him (which you can see above on this page), which was made in Emden (Germany). It is almost unreadable, but we can see that he wrote \u201c1917\u201d and \u201cJa sam \u017eiv\u201d (=Serbian for I am alive). The visible inscription \u2018Deda Milo\u0161\u2019 (Serbian for \u2018grandpa Milo\u0161\u2019) on the top was made at a later stage by his descendants.<\/p>\n

Below: the postcard written by Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107, Emden (Germany) 1917.<\/i><\/sub><\/p>\n

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Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thanks to the information on this website the family of Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107 now know that their great great-grandfather and great-grandfather died in Nijmegen on 18 January 1919 and not in Germany. They know now also that his remains are in the mausoleum in Jind\u0159ichovice, the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

His name is not only written on the monument which their ancestors raised for him in Resnik, but it is also written on the monument in Garderen for the fallen Serbian WWI Soldiers who died in the Netherlands.<\/div>\n
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Ve\u010dna mu slava! (=Eternal glory to him!)<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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Sources \/ Special thanks to<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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The following sources were used:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

-Personal archives of Zorica & Milo\u0161 Tanasijevi\u0107 \u00a0(pictures & letter)<\/div>\n
-Habert, Henri. 1919. Binnen het prikkeldraad: naar verhalen van uitgeweken \u00a0Servi\u00ebrs (Entre les fils barbel\u00e9s: D’apr\u00e8s les r\u00e9cits des \u00e9vad\u00e9s Serbes). \u00a0Amsterdam.<\/div>\n
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-National Archives of Serbia :\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/www.archives.org.rs<\/a>
\nExhumation report , no K. Br. 84024\/XII<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

-Civil registration Gemeente Nijmegen January 1919<\/div>\n

\nSpecial thanks to:<\/b><\/div>\n
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-Zorica Tanasijevi\u0107 (great-granddaughter of Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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-Milo\u0161 Tanasijevi\u0107 (great-great-grandson of Milo\u0161 Jeremi\u0107)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Story by:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tanja Vendrig, Fabian Vendrig and John Stienen.<\/p>\n

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