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- One of the barracks at Dunaszerdahley is ablaze at night. This was one of the worst nightmares for POW's because fires were particularly dangerous in packed barracks. Camp administrators strictly prohibited smoking and other fire hazards in camp buildings in an attempt to prevent conflagrations and trained fire crews to rescue prisoners and combat the flames.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- While many of the high-ranking Polish Legion officers remained in captivity, these prisoners were discharged from the prison camp at Bustyahaza on 31 March 1918. The signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended the fighting on the Eastern Front and temporarily established the regency in Warsaw as the legitimate Polish government.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Serbian fiddlers strike up a tune in the prison compound at Nagymegyer to provide entertainment for the prisoners on their day off from work.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photograph portrays the interior of the Roman Catholic chapel in the prison camp at Hajmasker showing the altar, the communion rail, and portrait of Christ praying above and behind the altar. Mario Bargato, an architect from Milan and an Italian prisoner, designed the chapel.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a close-up of the portrait of Christ praying in the Garden of Gethsemene which hung over the altar in the Roman Catholic chapel at Hajmakser. The painting was produced by Mario Bargato, one of the Italian prisoners in the camp.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Italian prisoners compete on a Sport's Day in the prison camp at Dunaszerdahley. This photograph caught a POW in the middle of a high jump amid a group of spectators.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A Hungarian sentry stands guard at the entrance to the prison camp at Huszt in 1918. The barbed-wire fence enclosing the prison compound does not appear to be in the best of condition. Some of the camp's barracks and some incarcerated Polish Legionnaires stand in the background.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners stand outside the gaily decorated YMCA building, which is festooned with strings of garland, during the inauguration ceremony in the prison camp at Sopronnyek. Hungarian officers stand in the foreground on the right hand sice and an official delegation, led by His Excellency, M. de Sjilessy, the Privy Councilor of the Emperor-King. The Association hut became the center of social activities in most prison camps during World War I.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Interned Polish Legionnaires tend to their uniforms in the prison compound at Huszt on a sunny day in 1918. The security fence is not in good shape but the prisoners do not appear to be tempted to escape.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Italian prisoners compete in a game of doubles on the tennis court at Dunaszerdahley. Italian POW spectators sit on bleachers watching another game to the left.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
