Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War during World War I in the Territory of Present-day Uzbekistan – the Estate of Ferenc Palkovics (1892–1919)
Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War during World War I in the Territory of Present-day Uzbekistan – the Estate of Ferenc Palkovics (1892–1919)

Summary/Abstract: Specialist literature about prisoners of war during World War I in Russia only marginally deals with the Central Asian region. This paper undertakes to give an insight into the life of Austro-Hungarian POWs in the camps of present-day Uzbekistan, primarily based on the estate of Hungarian Second Lieutenant Ferenc Palkovics (1892–1919), which is preserved in the Collection of Manuscripts in the Hungarian MoD Military History Institute and Museum. Palkovics was taken prisoner by the Russians in December 1914 and spent five years in the camps of Namangan, Jizzakh, Samarkand, and Skobelev. The letters and picture postcards he sent to his family are interesting in several aspects because they not only depict the region in this period but also contain information about the everyday life of POW officers and portray a personal fate that ended tragically.

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