Kosakenfriedhof, Lienz-Peggetz
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I was here at this place when this tragedy happened. My family escaped into the mountains.
I visited the site in 1980, at that time you could still see the foundations of the wooden bridge that crossed the Drau. The bridge was the escape route.
Nice photo's.
Mihail (Misha) Krassnow/Krassnov/Krassof-a cook, who worked in the camp kitchen in Peggetz and also was very proficient in making soft leather boots/shoes in his spare time-if there is anyone out there who may possibly have photos of the Peggetz camp/kitchen it would be a godsend as my brother (aged 75) is the only person now who could identify my father from a photo-cheers from Australia!
I like you are was present at Lienz Austria 1/06/1945
My mother also worked in the kitchen at Camp Peggets.
Her maiden name was Alexandra Raikova
I have a phtograph od her myself and several other men around the large cooking pots in the kitchen. I also have some photos of the school class that i attended . Your brother is 5 years older than I I would be glad to send tyou copy of these as well. Who know he may have been one of my class mates.
I am planning to visit Lienz -Peggets this September 10,2009
I shall return to Toronto Canada around the end of september.
If you wish to see a copy of this kitchen in Peggets I wil be glad to send it you.
Please reply to my email address
Regards
Nicholas Talanov
I hope that one day we will be there...
Thanks again for the photos....
All the best
Jaroslav Musko
Thank you so much for replying-I know you will understand just how much a copy of any photos would mean to me (us)-just possibly we may find who we are looking for.
As an original Austrian I don't know why but I allways felt a special affinity to Russia and espcially to the kosaks, the monarchy and the orthodoxian church. Nevertheless I feel as an austrian patriot and I am a member of a traditional cavallery regiment, the 3 rd Dragoon Regiment of Vienna. Whenever you visit austria to keep kontakt to your history, your identity call me if you need help or any contact.
Long live the Kosaks
long live the holy Russia
We are not long back from Europe where we spent six lovely days in Lienz(where I was born) and were fortunate to participate in the Commemoration of the 'Tragedy on the Drau'-65th Anniversary of 1st June, 1945. There were many cossacks in Austria at that time and unfortunately many died there or were forcibly handed back to the Russians against their will by the British.
Thank you for your offer of help as I still have a lot of personal research to do.
Take care and keep in touch,
Nadja
massacre/betrayal. Is there anyone that was in the Kellerberg camp, which came after the Lienz/Peggetz event. I was in that camp until 1950 and have many photo's. There is no trace left of the Kellerberg camp.
I am writing from Australia. How old were you when you left Kellerberg and where did you go?
There is a lot of information on the various camps plus photos on the website dpcamps.org and they also include the contact details of the many people who are also looking for information and lost relatives. Good luck!.
I was 5 years old and was sent to England. My parents had been sent there a few years earlier. I lived with my grandparents while in the camp, later they were sent to the USA. My uncle was sent to Canada. It took us 12 years to reunite the family, which we did in the USA.
Did your grandparents experience the tragedy of Lienz-I was born in Lienz and was two and ten months when we arrived in Sydney Australia in June of 1949.
Whereabouts in the States did you settle-I know my godmother went to the USA (Rochester) near New York I believe but I only know her maiden name and have not been able to trace her or any of her family-she would be very elderly now or possibly even deceased.
Hope you are successful in finding others who remember or know of Kellerberg.
My grandparents, mother, uncle and I all went through the Lienz tragedy. I was only one year old at the time. Fortunately the entire family managed to escape the British soldiers and hide in the mountains. After months of living in the forest, the Brits offered safe haven in the Kellerberg camp. As a child I used to hear my parents talk about their experiences at Lienz. As an adult, through travel and research I have found that the stories were all true. We settled in New Jersey.
Did your grandparents, uncle possibly have any connection with the former Yugoslavia. Yes, many took to the mountains until it was safe to come back. We met in Lienz with the now Ataman of the All Cossack Association outside Russia-Alexander Pewnew, also of New Jersey and are you aware that the people of Lienz have started an Association to preserve longterm the commemoration of this Tragedy and are in the process of planning the building of a Museum. I guess your story would also be a long one with many twists and turns-not a wonder that those who managed to survive the events of that period focused so whole heartedly on their new freedom and re-establishing in their new 'homelands' and sometimes choosing to never talk about the past. Such tenacity and strength of character.
I know of the "All Cossack Association Outside of Russia" and have been to their church and museum. Unfortunately as time goes by there are fewer people left who have a direct connection to that period of history. I am the last one in my family that directly experienced Lienz and all that followed.
I do make it a point to let my children know what happened back then and why it happened. So all is not lost.
I was not successful on this website in connecting with Nicholas (above) but we have exchanged emails now and are corresponding.
My home email address is:
owenboyz@bigpond.net.au
I would love to know your story-my brother and sister were born in Novi Sad and their father was in the Russki Corpus there.