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NEW JERSEY CHAPTER PRESENTS
“Talerhof and the Lemko
Genocide,”
Saturday, August 12, 2006,
2–4 PM
Wayne Public Library, 461 Valley Road,
Wayne, NJ
Refreshments will be served.
Talerhof was an
internment camp operated by the Austro-Hungarian imperial government
from 1914 to 1917. The camp housed, “Russophiles,” individuals and
families believed to be sympathetic to the Czarist army advancing into
Galicia. At least 1,915 Lemkos (though some sources claim as many as
5,000) people from 151 villages were incarcerated. By September 1914,
virtually the entire Russophile-oriented Lemko intelligentsia was
imprisoned, among them priests and cultural activists. The camp was
closed by the order of Emperor Charles I in 1917.
Please join us as
Dr. Paul Best, a Professor of Political Science at Southern Connecticut
State University, discusses this World War I Austrian concentration camp
and the tragedy that befell the Lemko/Rusyn intelligentsia. For further
information, send an E-mail to
njpublicrelations@c-rs.org
or call (973) 540-0871.
Directions:
Take Route 46 to the Riverview Drive Exit in the direction of Wayne.
Continue on Riverview Drive to the traffic light at Valley Road. Turn
right onto Valley Road and proceed to the second traffic light at Nellis
Drive at the Wayne Municipal Complex. Turn left and then right to
access the parking lot and the Library. From Manhattan: Take
New Jersey Transit Bus # 197 from Port Authority Bus Terminal on 8th
Avenue at 42nd Street to the Valley Road/Preakness Avenue bus
stop in Wayne. The bus stop is across the street from the Wayne
Municipal Complex, the location of the Wayne Public Library. The 1 PM
bus arrives in Wayne at 1:47 PM and costs approximately $10 round trip.
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