Talerhof
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Talerhof was a concentration camp, created by the Austro-Hungarian authorities in the first days of World War I, in a sandy valley in foothills of the Alps, near Graz, the main city of the province of Styria.
Austro-Hungarian authorities imprisoned Ukrainian Russophiles from Galicia and Bukovina. Over twenty thousand supporters of Russia were arrested and placed in the Austrian concentration camp in Talerhof. (Another concentration camp for supporters of Russia was the fortress at Terezín, now in the Czech Republic.)
The first group of prisoners was interned in Talerhof by the soldiers of the Austrian regiment of Graz on September, 4, 1914.
Until the winter 1915, there were no barracks in Talerhof. Prisoners slept on the ground in the open-air during rain and frost.
On November 9, 1914 official report of field marshal Schleer said there were 5,700 Russophiles in Talerhof. In all, 20 thousand people were prisoners of Talerhof from September 4, 1914 to May 10, 1917. The camp was closed by Emperor Charles I of Austria, after the first 6 months of his reign.[1]
In the first eighteen months of its existence, three thousand prisoners of Talerhof died.
Tens of thousands of Russophiles were victims of reprisals which carried out by the Austro-Hungarian authorities in Galicia during World War I.
[edit] People interned in Talerhof
- Jaroslav Kacmarcyk[1]
- Metodyj Trochanovskij
- Euphijon Venhrynovych (1861-1919) imprisoned 1914-1917 [2]
- Vasylij Kuryllo (1861-1941)[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
Vavrik, Vasili Romanowicz. Terezín and Talerhof, publishing house of Archpriest R. N.Samelo, New York, 1966 (Russian). Retrieved on 2008-01-20.
