N. of Sid

an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, NW of Semlin
 

 North of Ruma
 

Vukovar-Srijem County
 

Located in the central part of the Novi Beograd municipality

An urban neighborhood of Belgrade, located west of the downtown Belgrade, across the Sava river
 

Village Coordinator: Brad Schwebler

Village Web Site: http://www.dvhh.org/beschka

From the Monograph of the Batsch-Syrmian Seniorats of Bierbrunner

Lookups Guide: Brad Schwebler - Beschka Homeland Book by Peter Lang, includes a list of family names.

Beschka 2005 Village Photos - Gordon Geissler

The Town Crier by Ruth Elizabeth Melcher
 

SW of Semlin-Belgrad

Lookups Guide: Eve Brown - Church book (Evang./Luth.) from the village of Surtschin and includes the neighboring villages of Aschanja, Betschmen, Detsch and Obresch.  By Michael Schmidt and published in 1980

Lookups Guide: James Neumiller - Betschmen by Peter Sorg.

Lookups Guide: James Neumiller - Die Deutschen aus Betschmen (Syrmien) Chronik einer 200-jährigen Wanderung 1784-1984 by Christian Andreas Sorg.

Budanovci is a village in Serbia, situated in the municipality of Ruma, Srem District, Vojvodina province. (South of Ruma)
 

Cerna is a village and a municipality in eastern Croatia, located half-way between the cities of Vinkovci and Županja.

 

Lookups Guide: Eve Brown - Church book (Evang./Luth.) from the village of Surtschin and includes the neighboring villages of Aschanja, Betschmen, Detsch and Obresch.  By Michael Schmidt and published in 1980

 

SW of Ruma, W. of Belgrade
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunja

Neller, Florian: Heimatbuch Illatscha 1864-1984. Graz 1987
 

Vukovar-Srijem County

Located on a hill overlooking the Danube river, which forms the border with the Vojvodina region of Serbia.

VUKOVAR and ILOK (Part 2/2) ILOK - WYLOK - VJOLK - Reminiscences of a visit in 1999: The return drive was more pleasant passing the lovely country sites through villages of Sarengrad and Sotin but soon we were back to the realities of war after as we drove straight trough the torn City of Vukovar. The return drive was more pleasant passing the lovely country sites through villages of Sarengrad and Sotin but soon we were back to the realities of war after as we drove straight trough the torn City of Vukovar Regional History of Vukovar & Ilok. (neat site, photos: Kurt McCrary)

After the revolution of 1848/49 the “Voivodate of Serbia and Temes Banat” was created and used German as the official language. The new “voivodate”, with Temeswar as its capital, included not only the Banat, but also the Batschka and the districts Ruma and Illok of the Comitat Syrmia, and reported directly to the Imperial Government in Vienna. (read more at "100th Year Banater Swabian in Austria 1907-2007" by Dr. Hans Dama)

1) INDIA Deutsches Leben In Ostsyrmien 1825-1944 – Valentin Oberkersch

2) INDIA Deutsches Leben In Ostsyrmien Teil 1 - Valentin Oberkersch

3) INDIA Deutsches Leben In Ostsyrmien Teil 2 – Valentin Oberkersch - The two books (2,3) part1 and part 2 includes the first above mentioned book (1).  

4) INDIA CD-ROM from Herrn Helmut Pongratz is a Ortssippenbuch (1825 -1944, but not a complete one) and can be ordered by the German AKdFF

Oberkersch, Valentin, Born 1920 in India, Syrmia. He visited the high schools in Semlin and Karlowitz and later graduated from the University of Belgrade. After the war he continued his study on the University of Graz in Austria. From here he moved to Stuttgart where he became active in many the research of several Donauschwaben Heimatbücher (Towns books).

Ivankovo is a municipality in the Vukovar-Srijem county, Slavonia in Croatia. It is approx. 10Km from Vinkovci, a major town.

Srem U 100 Slika DR Brane Ivankovica (images) Broken link: http://www.sm.co.yu/0001/foto.htm

Johann Herzog and Stefan Klemm, Heimatbuch der Donauschwaben aus Jarmina - Jahrmein (Vienna - Bad Wurzbach, 1976)

Jahrmein Fallen World War I Heroes 1914-1918
Gefallene und Vermißte des Ersten Weltkrieges
Contributed by Robin Grube, 12 Sep 2008

Located in the south-eastern part of Syrmia (sub-region of Podlužje)

24 kilometers SW of downtown Belgrade and 6 kilometers S of Surčin.

The settlement is 4 kilometers away from the left bank of the Sava river.

Jakovo Village Images:

There is also a Alt-Jankowzi / Stari Jankovci listed in Slavonia

Located in the Inđija municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province.

Church books for Kukujevci are at St.Michaels-Werk church in Vienna.
 

Journey to Freedom 1850-1943 Part 1: (Family background):
Dautermann's of Obresch & Sklena's of Bohemia & Schwarzwald, Germany, Apfeldorf & Kupinovo 1944-1954 Part 2: Obresch to Camp Haid to America

Kupinovo images [click to enlarge]:

Vukovar-Srijem County

1828 census for Lovas

Catholic Church:
Župa Svetog Mihaela, arkanđela
Marić Stipo, žk
Kralja Tomislava 16
32237 Lovas
Hrvatska
 

South of Indjija

Located in the Inđija municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province.

A village located in the Bačka Palanka municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia, although it is not geographically located in Bačka, but in Syrmia

Family Registry: www.neu-banovci.de/nb-fr.php?l=e&db=nb
 

Lookups Guide: James Neumiller - Ortssippenbuch Der Ehemaligen Deutsch-Evang. Heimatgemeinde Neudorf bei Vinkovci 1819-1944-1986 by Johann Bader.
 

Located in the Inđija municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province.

(1790-1794) Karlowitz received 36 German families
(Source: Danube Swabians in Syrmien, Croatia, Slavonia & Bosnia "The Settlement of the Germans")

Neu-Pasua - A Short Homeland Book, by Mathias Huber
Neu-Pasua - Journey to the Other Schwabenland by Johannes Banzhaf

www.Neu-Pasua.de
 

1. Vukovar-Srijem County

Catholic Church:
Župa Mučeništva svetog Ivana Krstitelja
Tomušić Marko, žk
Orolička 7, Berak
32243 Orolik
Hrvatska
 

A municipality in the Zadar county

South of Vinkovci
 

Lookups Guide: Ewald Schneider - Baptism records 1856-1889, 1900-1934,1943

Putinzi / Putinci of Syrmia - 2006 Andreas Genahl

Putinzi / Putinci Photos: Contributed by Ewald Schneider,with permission of photographer Andreas Genahl

Völkermord der Tito-Partisanen" 1944-1948" | Chap 4: Tito's Starvation Camps: Srem | Ruma

“Two Donauschwaben Sisters” or “How we understand each other” by Dragan Gegenbauer [12 Sep 2011]

Heimatortsgemeinschaft Ruma (H.O.G. Website) www.donauschwaben.net/hog_ruma
Ruma: Totentafel (In Memoriam ~ also has the list of names of civilians, women, children & men who died in the camps)

Ruma is a town and municipality located in Vojvodina, Serbia

Coordinates: 45.00°N 19.83°E

A village on the east of Croatia near the border with Serbia. It is connected by the D46 highway. The village is 72 miles away from Belgrade (Serbia), 98 miles from Sarajevo (Bosnia), 155 miles from Zagreb (Croatia) and 160 miles from Budapest (Hungary).

Village Coordinator: Eric Schwarz

Village Web Site: Coming Soon!

German community:  Before World War II Šidski Banovci was mostly populated by Germans. According to the census of 1910, Banovci had 990 residents, and 668 were Germans. They had developed a social life and a multitude of public institutions. The most important was the local Protestant church. Next door to the church was the school, which served as the city hall, and a bank was nearby. Local residents cherished traditional values, it was a village that maintained its strong work ethic. In late 1944 villagers had just barely escaped from Sidski Banovci. This was similar to that experienced by thousands of other ethnic Germans in the latter stages of World War II. The new post-war government declared that ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia were no longer citizens and confiscated their property. By 1945, nearly 500,000 Germans had been expelled the term that would be used in Article XIII of the Potsdam Agreement was “transfer”—from Yugoslavian territory. The residents of Sidski Banovci had some advanced warning from the German Army that they would have to leave their homes and evacuate the village. On October 17, with the Sidski Banovci church-bells pealing, a caravan of 40 to 50 families formed and proceeded out of the village and into the uncertain terrain ahead. They headed northwest toward Hungary. Huber family (Wilhelm Huber was born in 1824 and became the first Huber to settle in Sidski Banovci), in book The Past Rebuilt-The Huber Family Journey to Success, will describe their memories of that period.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banovci,_Vukovar-Syrmia_County )

Semlin Franztal Zemun Zemun-Novigrad

Völkermord der Tito-Partisanen" 1944-1948" > Chap 4: Tito's Starvation Camps: Srem > Semlin

*** Association of the Franztaler Community, founded in Linz ***

Zemun, now in Serbia, Croatian birth records transcribed into English
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• Located in the Pećinci municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province

Surtschin in Syrmien - A summary and translation of portions of Surtschin: Ortsbiografie der deutschen Minderheit eines Dorfes in Syrmien  published by the Ortsausschuss der Ortsgemeinschaft Surtschin in 1980.

"Surtschin" 1897-1945 Ev. Kirche 1920-1945 ref. Bethaus Ortsbiografie der deutschen Minderheit eines Dorfes in Syrmien, Michael Schmidt

Lookups Guide: Eve Brown - Church book (Evang./Luth.) from the village of Surtschin and includes the neighboring villages of Aschanja, Betschmen, Detsch and Obresch.  By Michael Schmidt and published in 1980

Sremska Mitrovica is one of the oldest cities in Europe, Located right in the middle of Srem, which is a geographical area right west of Belgrade, on the Sava river.

Völkermord der Tito-Partisanen" 1944-1948" > Chap 4: Tito's Starvation Camps: Srem > Mitrowitz

A Brief History of Sremska Mitrovicia http://www.sm.co.yu/xenglish.php

A Private of Sremska Mitrovica [broken link: www.truthinmedia.org/YinYangBob/Photos/Serbia_2005/SM_Tour.html]

Dedication of the Memorial Cross at Sremska Mitrovica - Images

• Located along right bank of the Danube, in the district South Bačka, in the municipality of Beoĉin.
• Up to Treaty of Trianon the community belonged to Habsburg Empire, to Szerém, a district of Ilok.

Pećinci municipality

Towarnik Village Images:

• Name of the village comes from the medieval name for Hungarians (Ugri).
• A suburban settlement of Belgrade.
• Located in the E section of the Syrmia region, in the W part of the municipality of Zemun, near the administrative border of the municipality of Vojvodina.

• Vukovar-Srijem County
• Village Coordinator: Barbara Wolfram (In memory of Barbara)

• in the Ruma municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province

• It is administratively part of the Vukovar-Srijem county.
• South of Županja, Croatian

• North of Ruma

Vukovar-Srijem County

Völkermord der Tito-Partisanen" 1944-1948" > Chap 4: Tito's Starvation Camps: Srem > Vukovár

Wukowar/Vukovar Images: click images to enlarge