ZAŠTITA I PREZENTACIJA ZBIRKE DOKUMENATA –VOJNIČKA PISMA IZ PRVOG SVETSKOG RATA (1914.-1918.)
PROTECTION AND PRESENTATION OF A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS –MILITARY LETTERS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914TH-1918TH)

Summary/Abstract: Documents from public and private provenance, created during wars can disapear very easy as a result of war operations, the change of government, occupation etc. During war and especially after war each country takes measures to preserve and protect the archival material. During the First and the Second World War letters were the only communication between the soldiers and their families and they contain information about their personal and family life. Those letters have had different destiny. The soldiers weren’t able to easily keep the letters they got. The censor’s millitary commissions which reviewed those letters didn’t let some of them to get to the adressees. Those letters were either kept at the commissions and commands or were simply destroyed. The families of the soldiers especially those from villages didn’t keep the letters long because they reminded them of the hard days of the war.As a historian - archivist, I have had the opportunity to participate in the team which worked on a project related to the processing and protection of the letters of the soldiers from the First Wold War. That collection of documents happened to get to Macedonia at FOSIM (Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia). The Project was realised as a part of the programme of this Organisation. The collection was named Revealed Testimonies and today it can be found in the Museum of Kratovo, Macedonia. The letters were presented thrugh an exibition which was put on in sevral towns in Macedonia. These letters were published in a book - a collection „Revealed Testemonies - letters from soldiers from the Great War (1914.-1918.)“ in 2009.

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