The project “The Album of Remembrance to Our Ancestors from the First World War” was initiated by the Association of Descendants of the Warriors from Serbia in 1912–1920, and has resulted in a desire to pay homage to an individual, today, a hundred years later, to a Serbian soldier, that little man involved in the Great War for civilization, his unselfish sacrifice for justice, freedom and truth – and represents a part of collected historiographic material from the period of First World War, that the descendants had sent in honor of their ancestors, the participants of the Great War.
Having realized that an ordinary, anonymous warrior–peasant was the one who formed the Serbian history equally with the military leaders, the kings and the statesmen, the public call was launched for the citizens of Serbia and the Serbs in the region and the diaspora to deliver the photographs and other documents from the First World War and participate in creating “The Album of Remembrance to Our Ancestors from the First World War”.
There are over 4000 units in the gallery of the Commemorative Album, first-class testimonies – photographs, war diaries, military letters, correspondence cards, memorials and other historiographic material of the First World War participants. These are unique testimonies of the war adventures and sufferings of the Serbian soldier in the war years, depressed from the pages of world history.
The history invites us to show “memory skills” and take on personal responsibility for the future of our descendants. The history obliges us to tell a great story about our famous ancestors and to make their great sacrifice into a cultural heritage rather than erase it from our civilization’s memory.
Expert collaboration: Roksanda Aleksić, Dušan Mladenović, Aleksandar Vasilić, Association of Descendants of the Warriors from Serbia in 1912–1920.
Graphic realization of the stamps: MA Jakša Vlahović, academic graphic artist.
