The graves of Serbs in the valley of death And today, nearly a hundred years since the beginning of the First World War , the descendants of Serbian fighters from the home country are looking for Slovakia graves of their loved ones. We help as we can tell the truth about the suffering of our people and to preserve the memory of the Serbs, who as prisoners or soldiers killed in the war of liberation . We erected the statue in gratitude Serbian people their heroes ! These words are flat Ribic , president of the Association of Serbs in Slovakia , addressed members of the Serbian delegation during the last week laid flowers on the graves of the Great Serbian Međeri in Slovakia . During the First World War, the Serbs in Slovakia suffered heavy casualties . Primarily in POW camps - or the Great in Nađmeđeru Međeri , Dunajska Streda , samorin elsewhere . - In the camp there was mass murder, but there were mass casualties . Serbs died of typhus , starvation and exhaustion. In the camps in Slovakia died about 8,000 Serbian prisoners in Great Međeri most , 5,500 Serbs - evidence Nebojsa Kuzmanovic , who investigates the suffering of Serbs in Slovakia . Books and movies ALEXANDER Nevers, the mayor of Grand Međeri , decided that the centenary of the First World War, the Serbs Slovak publish a book The Serbian cemetery , to do a documentary and rearrange this memorial site , it would be historic monument . About the suffering of the Serbs first wrote historian Risto Kovijanić , who claimed that Austria-Hungary made a great contribution to the cultural barbarism . He participated in three wars , and imprisoned in two concentration camps . One of them was just Nađmeđer camp , where he was the 1916th until 1918. year. The experience of the period described in Slovak and Serbian in Nađmeđerska - the valley of death, with the subtitle The graves of 6,000 Serbian martyrs . He compiled the first list of victims of the camp . - At the cemetery , in Kovijanić , only for two months - from 20 December in 1914. to 20 February in 1915. - Fell more than 2,900 Serbs who were buried in the 155 nameless Danube wetlands. Concentration camp in the Great Međeri was a prison for the soldiers , and the whole family from Serbia and Montenegro, which gave volunteers the Serbian army - highlights Stane Ribic , leader of the Serbian community in Slovakia . Officially Nađmeđeru cemetery was established in 1918. as part of the Italian war cemetery. He never made a list of Serb bodies , their names can be read from tombstones : Here lies Vuko Neimarevic , died in 1917. Monument lifted his brother Momcilo . In the tomb of Nikola Bojic inscription is illegible . On some boards used only by initials , for example - M. Glisic, or the number of the dead - in 1520. The cemetery was forgotten and neglected all through 2002. year , when it was edited Serbs from Bratislava . A large Serbian cemetery Međeri after Zejtinlika largest Serbian graves outside the homeland , first took care of the Kingdom of Serbs, which marked the graves and built a small chapel and then Czechoslovak state , which in fact was extremely sloppy . After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were visiting a cemetery representatives of the Association of Veterans of the wars of liberation and Orthodox priests from Komarna . - When I 2,001th visited the Great Međeri , I was shocked by what I saw . Cemetery built on the outskirts of the village became part of the town. Half of the Serbian cemetery at the request of local fans turned into a dog racetrack for puppies - Hungarian local governments whole cemetery was chartered meat Kennel Club , which made the dog racetrack . The second half of the cemetery was overgrown with grass and ruined chapel - still talking excitedly Dr Kuzmanovic . In early October, 2001. official authorities in Bratislava annul the shameful decision of local government in Great Međeri . - Meanwhile , the Serbian Association Svetozar Miletic has modernized the cemetery and build a memorial plaque , which reads : Serbian martyrs who died from 1914 to 1918 . Serbian people - is proud of Dr Kuzmanovic . Since 2004. year , every November, Armistice Day in World War I , and every St. Vitus Serbian delegation laid wreaths and pay their respects to the Serbs killed in the Great Međeri . Last year, the mayor accepted the initiative of the streets of the Serbian cemetery bear the name Serbian . MONUMENTS On the ground, there are eight monuments Slovak Serbian suffering - of Nitra , Trnava , Žilina, Ilava , Banska Bystrica and Šamorín a military cemetery with an unknown number of dead soldiers of the Kingdom of Serbia . In Trencin is a monument to the charnel house was built in 1928. where he was buried 56 Serb soldiers of the First World War.
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