PRIVREMENO IZMJEŠTANJE BOSANSKOHERCEGOVAČKE DJECE U SLAVONIJU (1917-1920) PREMA GRAĐI ARHIVA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
TEMPORARY RELOCATION OF BOSNIAN AND HERZEGOVINIAN CHILDREN TO SLAVONIA (1917-1920) ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF BH

Summary/Abstract: The Provincial government for Bosnia and Herzegovina undertook different measures to lessen the plight of population, and especially children, due to food shortage. Around 12 216 children were relocated to Slavonia and housed with families in order to survive the winter of 1917/1918. The organization of sending Bosnian and Herzegovinian children to Slavonia in 1917, and their subsequent return home during 1919 and 1920 was carried out by the Department for theology and education within the Provincial government in Sarajevo. Children of Catholic and Orthodox faith were placed with Croat families in various municipalities in Bačka and Banat, whereas the Muslim children, for whom it was difficult to arrange an adequate diet due to strict regulations of the Muslim faith, were placed in a special building in Vinkovci where a primary school was temporarily opened specially for them. A small number of these children returned home from Slavonia escorted by their cousins and parents, but a large number remained there until 1919. From June 1919 until June 1920 the Provincial government for Bosnia and Herzegovina organized the return of around 10 000 children from Slavonia to their homes. The remaining children returned home in the company of their cousins or parents because they could not wait for an organized return.

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