Printer Friendly Version EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO SERBIAN SOLDIERS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR WHO PASSED AWAY IN THE NETHERLANDS @ 12 October 2023 11:54 AM

 

On Monday, October 9, 2023, in the hall of the Parish house of the Serbian Orthodox Church "Holy Trinity" in Rotterdam, an Exhibition was opened dedicated to Serbian soldiers from the First World War who passed away in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which will be held until October 20.

The Exhibition was organized by the Museum of the Rudnička-Takovo Region from Gornji Milanovac, in cooperation with the Embassy of Republic of Serbia in The Hague, as well as representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Rotterdam and Dutch-Serbian researchers John M. Stinen, Fabian and Tatjana Vendrig, who published the book "Serbian soldiers died in the Netherlands 1917-1919".

The Exhibition was opened by Ambassador Ksenija Milenković with an appropriate speech in front of several visitors, members of the Serbian diaspora and priests of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Exhibition was also attended by First Counsellor Dušan Vukić and Museum representatives Ms Ana Jelić and Mr. Nenad Karamijalković.

With the Commemoration and consecration of the newly installed marble crosses at the Memorial dedicated to the deceased Serbian soldiers in the First World War in Garderen, as well as the aforementioned Exhibition, the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in The Hague in cooperation with the Serbian Orthodox Church and members of the Serbian community in Kingdom of the Netherlands symbolically marked the 105th Anniversary of the end of the First World War.