DOPRINOS VARAŽDINSKE MLADEŽI DOBROTVORNIM AKTIVNOSTIMA TIJEKOM PRVOG SVJETSKOG RATA
VARAŽDIN YOUTH’S CONTRIBUTION TO CHARITY ACTIVITIES DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: During the first two war years, voluntary work of the Varaždin youth was subject to absolute control of the authorities. Their activity came down to collecting money for aiding casualties of war, organizing humanitarian events as well as collecting clothes and scarce materials. The organization and realization of the mentioned activities was performed by students and teachers from all public elementary and high schools in Varaždin to the best of their abilities. During the last two years of the war, Austria-Hungary experienced a liberalization of social and political life. This fact led to a reactivation of the Varaždin Academic Youth Club Tomislav, which soon revived its cooperation with high-school students, especially Gymnasium students. Until the end of the world war, what followed was a period of intense political, cultural and educational activity organized through mass public lectures as well as concerts performed by the Tomislav choir and orchestra in Varaždin and nearby villages. The profit earned through those events was intended for helping orphans, widows and families of the soldiers killed in action, war invalids and students from the Međimurje region who were schooled in Varaždin. The mentioned events were aimed at raising the national awareness of the population and overthrowing the regime, i.e. finding a new way of solving the national issue within the South Slavic community.

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