Report

27.May 2026. Nemanja Kalezić

Kota 2525: Battle of Kajmakchalan

The intensity of the fighting on September 18 at Kajmakcalan is best expressed by the use of ammunition on the Serbian side. "9.310 artillery shells of all calibers, 200.000 rifle and 250.000 machine gun rounds, 400 hand grenades, 450 Hazen bombs, 380 illumination rockets, 250 signal rockets and 800 signal bullets were fired"

The culture of memory

06.January 2026 Nemanja Kalezić

Battle for the Bride of the Adriatic

At certain moments, the scouts of the dual monarchy, who used balloons in Lepetani, seaplanes from Kumbor or were deployed on fortified observation posts, such as Radoštak, which from 1346 meters above sea level offered an ideal view of a good part of the bay, thought that the fortifications would not withstand such furious fire from Lovćen

Australians and Serbs

23.April 2025. Marija Banković

Four photos from the Great War

More than 1500 Australians and New Zealanders fought with Serbian soldiers in the Great War, which would not be known if it were not for four photographs. Now a feature-length documentary film has been made about it Kajmakchalan, a story about chance and persistence, about fate and the alliance of people in the fight for a better world, but also about diaspora and patriotism

On this day

28.July 2024 Philip Schwarm

Why did the First World War start and what does it tell us today

On this day 110 years ago, the First World War began. From a centuries-old perspective, the actual question is whether Serbia should have suffered so many victims - both the Austro-Hungarian crimes in Mačva and the typhus plague and the retreat through Albania and Montenegro to Corfu and the Thessaloniki front, all in all, more than a million dead? The problem with this question is that it presupposes the possibility of an election, which there was neither in 1914 nor later

The culture of memory

05.June 2024 Nemanja Kalezić

Newspapers from "trench hair 150 meters from Bulgaria"

No matter how foreign handwritten periodicals seem to today's generations, they played a big role in preserving the morale of the participants of the First World War, especially since the initiative rarely came from the competent authorities, but the actors themselves started the papers in order not to cut short the hours of leisure and indulge in those gloomy times. It illustrates in the best way what was on their mind, what emotions prevailed and how they tried to forget about everyday life.

The culture of memory

08.May 2024. Nemanja Kalezić

Media image of Serbia in the First World War

How and where Serbian newspapers were published from 1914 to 1918, what they wrote about and what they didn't keep silent about, what problems they had and how they solved them and, especially, why small ads were so important

In memoriam: Đorđe-Jorgos Mihailović (May 1, 5 – July 1928, 2)

05.July 2023 Milica Kosanović

Guardian of our memory

He stopped officially working as a guardian of Zeytinlik only in 2014 and agreed to retire, stepping down from his traditional duties due to old age. However, whenever his health allowed it, Uncle Đorđe would visit the necropolis in the afternoon where he spent his entire life, meeting with numerous visitors.

The culture of memory

07.January 2014 Philip Schwarm

Who is the hero of 1914?

Although often illiterate, just above the poverty line, until the World War his movement was mostly limited to the surroundings of his village, a Serbian soldier, a peasant, sees himself exclusively as a free man. It does not fight for colonies, European and world domination, straits or penetration to the East; he endures sufferings and sacrifices exclusively defending his family, village, country - his right to equality with everyone else. That's why he wins like a rag, in a burnt overcoat and broken shoes