Editor-in-Chief: Dragan Gačić MA
Author: Snežana Lazić
Review by: Vesna Aleksić, PhD
Editing and proofreading: Nataša Marković MA
Translated into English by: Tijana Kovčić
Art and Layout: Zorica Netaj
Circulation: 500

 

Bilingual publication Development of Tourism in Belgrade between the Two World Wars is a result of a research of archival and library material preserved in Historical Archives of Belgrade conducted for the exhibition on Kalemegdan in 2016. It was a common opinion that the tourism in this region began to develop after the Second World War. However this research demonstrated that this industry was highly developed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and its capital, Belgrade.

 

Factors necessary for tourism were systematically and methodically developed in interwar Belgrade, like traffic infrastructure, hotels, legal directives, cultural, manifestation, sport and youth tourism. In this period first tourist agencies and representative offices were founded, theoretical literature and travel guide were published and first academy for hospitality management was established. Belgrade citizens were good hosts and tourists. Between the two world wars, all types of tourism known today appeared in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

 

Special part of publication is a Chronology of Tourism development in Serbian and in English.

 

 

Authors: Isidor Đuković, Nenad Lukić
Editor in Chief: Slobodan Mandić
Year of publishing: 2017

Nežider Austro-Hungarian camp for interned civilians in the First World War was one of the biggest of that kind. It was organized within the buildings and stables of the old hussar barracks, and it was later reconstructed so that it could receive 15.000 internees. It was used primarily as a camp for interned civilians from the territory of the Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Montenegro and from some parts of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy inhabited by Slavic people, Russians and Poles. In the period between 1914 and 1918 more that 17 000 internees passed through this camp. Because of poor conditions and periodical epidemic diseases about 4.800 prisoners died in the camp.

 

Book Nežider - Austro-Hungarian camp for Serbian Prisoners 1914–1918 was written in cooperation of two authors Isidor Đuković and Nenad Lukić and Historical Archives of Belgrade. It consists of two parts.

 

The first part deals with the historical background of the Nežider camp – the camp’s formation and development, organization, everyday life, deaths and burials of the internees. Historical background is supplemented by memories of the survived prisoners and data from the recent literature, first of all from the short study of Еva Maria Mannsberger and Karl Schäfer, „Das Neusiedler Internierungslager 1914–1918”(Neusiedler Jahrbuch ХI, 2008/2009) as well as from newspaper articles and available archival material.

 

Second part of the book consists of abundant material in tabular form. List of internees died from 1914 until 1918 is based entirely on archival material from the Archives of Serbia, Archives of Yugoslavia, Military Archives, and National Institute for Protection of Cultural Heritage and from one part of Sterbebuche, original books with death certificates from the camp.

 

In tabular form, it is presented:

List of citizens who died in the camp, from the Kingdom of Serbia
List of citizens who died in the camp, from the Kingdom of Serbia with incomplete data
List of citizens who died in the camp, from Kingdom of Montenegro and parts of Austro-Hungary, today Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia
List of citizens who died in the camp, from the Russian Empire, Kingdom of Romania and Principality of Albania;
List of deceased camps’ personnel;
List of citizens who died in the camp but their place of birth could not be determined;
List of citizens who died in the camp whose identity could not be determined precisely;
List of potentially dead citizens who are not listed in main sources
List of potentially dead soldiers who are not listed in main sources
List of citizens who died in the camp and are registered in the Nežider’s books but are buried on other places;
List of citizens who died in the camp but their death was not confirmed officially
Publication Nežider - Austro-Hungarian camp for Serbian Prisoners 1914–1918 represents the first attempt in our historiography to explore destiny of Serbian internees and prisoners in one Austro-Hungarian camp in the First World War. The authors tried to bring closer to the readers less familiar aspect of sufferings of Serbian people during the WWI, using our and foreign archival material and literature.
The book presentation was held in the Roman Hall of the Belgrade City Library on 26th April 2017. Author Isidor Đuković and PhD Miloš Paunović presented this publication. Another Archives’ publication was presented on this occasion – Kosta Pavlović, The London Diary 1945–1946.

 

Photographs from the book presentation

 

 

Video from book presentation

 

 

 

Text prepared by: Jelena Jovanović, Tijana Kovčić, Vladimir Mijatović
Editor-in-chief: Dragan Gačić, M.A.
Year of publishing: 2017

 

Kosta St. Pavlović was born in 1905 in a prominent Belgrade family. He finished Elementary and Secondary school in Paris, where his father was a diplomat. He completed the First Belgrade Gymnasium and then graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. He was in diplomatic service from 1928 until 1945. He served in Brussels and Luxembourg and at the beginning of the WWII he was working in Bucharest. After he had arrived in London, he was chosen to be the chief of the Cabinet of the Prime Ministers Dušan Simović, Slobodan Jovanović and Miloš Trifunović until 1943, when the Serbian Government was transferred to Cairo. Soon after he started to work as the First Secretary of Yugoslav Embassy in London. After the war, he completed postgraduate magisterial studies at the University of Cambridge and was the librarian in the Slavic Library. Since 1961 he was proclaimed to be a permanent member of the Faculty for Contemporary and Medieval Languages and permanent member of the Regent House of the Cambridge University and the Selvin College.

 

He was the General Secretary of the Yugoslav National Defense, honorary member of the French Institute in London, and a member of Polish Society for Science and Literature. He published articles in various Serbian, French, Belgian and American magazines. He collaborated on Encyclopedia Britannica published in 1963. He was one of the founders of the Liberation newspaper. With the assistance of the British Academy of Science, he published 28 articles and research studies on Yugoslav-British relations during the Second World War and 30 literary portraits under the title As I Knew Them. He died in Southampton in 1988.
Kosta’s son, Stevan K. Pavlović, professor emeritus of the Balkan Studies on the University of Southampton, in 2005 handed over to the Historical Archives of Belgrade the legacy of Kosta Pavlović, consisting of abundant archival material and the diaries. The diaries were kept from 1930 until 1933 (at the beginning of his diplomatic career) and from 1940 until 1954.

 

The diary notes of Kosta Pavlović are not entirely unknown to the audience. In 2011 Stevan K. Pavlović prepared for publishing his father’s notes under the title War Diary 1941–1945 (the book includes the period from 14th May 1941 until 10th March 1945). The book was published by Službeni Galsnik and publishing company Otkrovenje. Historical Archives of Belgrade have published diaries that follow the War Diary. The London Diary starts on Saturday, 10th March 1945 when Pavlović made a final decision not to return to his Motherland and it ends on the last day of 1946.

 

By using diplomatic sources and meetings, as well as the British press, Kosta Pavlović in his Diaries analyses and discusses the activities of Serbian emigrants, affairs of the family Karadjordjević as well as the events in postwar Yugoslavia. These notes reveal the destiny of his contemporaries – Slobodan Jovanović, Draža Mihailović, Branko Lazarević, Ilija Šumenković, Mladen Žujović, Milan Gavrilović, as well as other foreign diplomats and prominent European politicians. All these political events mingle with personal experiences, memories from childhood and nostalgic feelings for his family and Motherland.

 

Diaries of Kosta Pavlović contain eight notebooks with hard covers. The text is written by hand and typed, in Latin and Cyrillic letters, in Serbian, English and French language. The original spelling and style of Kosta Pavlović is preserved entirely. The corrections have been made only in cases of obvious spelling mistakes. These Diaries represent significant source of information for the researchers and experts in this period, as well as for wider audience. The book presentation was held in the Roman Hall of the Belgrade City Library on 26th April 2017.Djordje Pavlović and historian PhD Milan St. Protić discussed about this publication.
On this occasion, another Archives’ publication was promoted – Nežider – Austro-Hungarian camp for Serbian prisoners of war.

 

Photographs from the book presentation

 

 

 

Video from the book presentation