OD PRENASLEDOVANIA AŽ PO VÄZNENIE V ROKOCH PRVEJ SVETOVEJ VOJNY OČAMI JAROSLAVA KMICIKIEWICZA

• Authors: Burda Matúš

Title variants

EN

From persecution to imprisonment during the World War I through the eyes of Jaroslav Kmickiewicz

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The author of the study notes that the Habsburg Monarchy is traditionally perceived as a multinational state formation. In addition to Germans and Hungarians, Czechs, Croats, Serbs, Poles, Romanians, Slovaks, Slovenes and Ruthenians lived in this traditional Central European power, inhabiting the north-eastern counties of the Kingdom of Hungary and the territory of the Crown Land of Halych. Because of their linguistic, cultural and confessional affinity with the Russians, who invaded the territory of Galicia and the Carpathian Mountains after the outbreak of the World War I, the Ruthenians fell into disfavour with the Austro-Hungarian authorities. This was also felt by Jaroslav Kmicikiewicz, the son of a Greek-Catholic priest of Ruthenian origin, who was arrested in late August 1914 and transported to the Teresin prisoner-of-war camp, from where his steps led to the Austrian camp of Thalerhof. The paper publishes his personal testimony from the 1970s and offers readers a unique perspective of a persecuted Ruthenian in the period from 1914 to 1918.

Keywords

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MILITARY HISTORY; WORLD WAR I; RUTHENIANS; JAROSLAV KMICIKIEWICZ; WAR CAMP; TERESIN; LEGIONARY

• Publisher: Vojenský historický ústav Bratislava
• Journal: Vojenská história
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 89 - 106

Contributors

author

Burda Matúš

• Základná škola Teodora Jozefa Moussona, T J Moussona 4, 071 01 Michalovce, Slovak Republic