JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2443
HEINRICHSGRUN WAS JUST A SERBIAN CEMETERY
London (JFK+50) One hundred years ago, September 25, 1917, a Serbian officer "recently exchanged and...in a hospital in France" told of the horrors of Heinrichsgrun*, an Austrian internment camp.
Lieutenant Vidak Koprivitaka, who had been taken to the camp after having been wounded, said...
"When we arrived...30 to 50 prisoners were dying daily. Many of our unhappy soldiers found their graves here through starvation, disease and hard labor in the mines."
With more than 20,000 victims, Heinrichsgrun was "just a Serbian cemetery."
*Heinrichsgrun was the largest civilian camp in Austria-Hungary for Serbian civilian internees and POWS. The camp had 300 barracks and a section reserved for Serbian children age 6 and older.
SOURCES
"Germans' Camp Like Cemetery, Officer's Story", Chicago Daily Tribune, September 26, 1917.
"Prisoners of War and Internees (Southeast Europe)", by Bogdan Trifunovic, International Encyclopedia of the First World War, www.encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/
HEINRICHSGRUN WAS JUST A SERBIAN CEMETERY
London (JFK+50) One hundred years ago, September 25, 1917, a Serbian officer "recently exchanged and...in a hospital in France" told of the horrors of Heinrichsgrun*, an Austrian internment camp.
Lieutenant Vidak Koprivitaka, who had been taken to the camp after having been wounded, said...
"When we arrived...30 to 50 prisoners were dying daily. Many of our unhappy soldiers found their graves here through starvation, disease and hard labor in the mines."
With more than 20,000 victims, Heinrichsgrun was "just a Serbian cemetery."
*Heinrichsgrun was the largest civilian camp in Austria-Hungary for Serbian civilian internees and POWS. The camp had 300 barracks and a section reserved for Serbian children age 6 and older.
SOURCES
"Germans' Camp Like Cemetery, Officer's Story", Chicago Daily Tribune, September 26, 1917.
"Prisoners of War and Internees (Southeast Europe)", by Bogdan Trifunovic, International Encyclopedia of the First World War, www.encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/
POW Camp
Isle of Man (1918)
by POW George Kenner
Imperial War Museum
