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INTERNEES AND FUGITIVES IN VARAŽDIN’S AREA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Višnja Burek
orcid.org/0000-0002-4540-7862
; Prva gimnazija Varaždin
Sažetak
During the First World War, Varaždin’s population increased temporarily in the
number not only due to many soldiers and the wounded, but also due to civilians,
i.e. Austro-Hungarian citizens, who were forced to evacuate and then interned in
Varaždin’s region, or who fled from the war area and arrived in the town. The interned
Serbian citizens from Srijem and other neighbouring counties were taken into the home
guard barracks in Varaždin, to private properties in Jurketinec, Klenovnik, Konjščina
and Bisag, and to the brickyards in Cerje Tužno. The internees returned home after the
war operations on the Balkan battlefields had ended. The first fugitives were clergymen
of St. Basil’s Order from Galicia, who fled from the war area during the autumn
of 1914 and stayed here in the Franciscan monastery in Varaždin until the summer of
1916. The fugitives were not a homogenous group if we consider the reasons why they
had fled: war horrors, army violence, poverty, dearth, hunger, and struggle to survive.
The majority of fugitives were arriving into the town primarily from the Austrian part
of the Monarchy from 1916 to 1918. They were neither forced to leave nor organised,
as for example the internees were, so that they were left to themselves. They decided
to stay in Varaždin temporarily and after all the reasons, due to which they had fled,
disappeared, the most of them returned to their hometowns.
Ključne riječi
First World War; internees; Srijem people; fugitives; Varaždin
Hrčak ID:
171599
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Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2016.
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