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Fostering Hungry Istrian Children during World War One in Križevci
Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević
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Due to a long warfare the Austro-Hungarian Empire was not prepared for and to the drought, 1916 and 1917 witnessed the population starving and literally naked. Grown-ups and children died widely so that the Zagreb Central Committee for Care of Mobilized and War Casualties’ Families started a wide humanitarian campaign to move the children from Istria to the north of Croatia. The action was welcomed by the Franciscans who wanted to save and ensure a better future for the Catholic children from Herzegovina. At the same time it meant salvation for Dalmatian and Bosnian as well as Slovenian children from Gorica and Slovenian littoral, so the action that was run from Zagreb by Dr Josip Šilović, Dr –uro BasariËek and Zvonimir Pužar achieved massive support and over 20 000 children were brought to northern Croatia. Križevci with its neighbouring area fostered many children mostly from Istria but the city was also the point from which lots of them were sent to Koprivnica and Bjelovar and its vicinity. From the records of Trumbić’s 1920 files there were 278 families in the Kriæevci district that cared for 324 children, mostly Istrians.
Ključne riječi
Kriievci; children; World War One
Hrčak ID:
9003
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Datum izdavanja:
25.2.2007.
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