13.08.1916 postal card to Zagreb from an Croatian prisoner of war(POW). Sent from an POW camp in Omsk area in Siberia, Russia. On the front of this special card issued for POW are Russian and Austrian censor cancels, at the back is POW camp cancel. Russian Empire captured around 2 million Austro-Hungarian soldiers. Of those Half a million were Austrians another half a million were Hungarians while Slavic nations including Croats made up the other million of POWs. How many POW were Croats I don't know but surely tens of thousands or more. Russia had more then 400 POW camps, there were 128 camps in the Moscow Region, 30 around Irkutsk and 28 around Omsk with others scattered around the huge empire. Croatian POW letters are not rare but also not too common.
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