On Wednesday 14th September, 2022, Didier Peyrard and his wife visited us to talk about his father, who was a prisoner of war in Stalag VIII A in 1940/41. Marcel Peyrard was a French prisoner of war who was captured by the Nazis in 1940 and...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Saving a cultural monument for the European Memorial Site Stalag VIII A Barrack listed as a historical monument becomes modern educational site. A barrack from WW II to receive a new location in the Memorial Site of the Stalag VIII...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]A story from the collection of memorabilia and memories of prisoners of the former POW camp Stalag VIII A On February 14, 1945, Erna Riedel received two photos with Valentine's Day wishes. They show the French prisoner of war...
Some reflections on his life by Basil Borthwick with acknowledgements to Peter McGhie and Phil Webster, his two `muckers` on the march west from Gorlitz, to Billy Allison (The Fox) for copies of letters from John's step-daughter, Mrs Agnes Mitchelmore, and to Bob Anderson for...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sergeant Leonard Grzegorek was born on 2 December 1903 in Mistrzewice near Sochaczew. He was taken prisoner as a result of the battle on September 12, 1939 in the Magnuszewski Forest near the town of Augustów. He was wounded...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The text describes Z. Nardelli's stay as a prisoner of Stalag VIII A and is marked by a period of struggle to preserve his identity in very difficult camp conditions, a period of extraordinary cultural development and great...
Giuseppe Gonneli was born on 01.03.1924 in Siena, Italy. While we know nothing about his youth, we can safely say that he was called up on 19 May 1943. A few months later, on 09 September 1943, he was captured by the Germans in Albano...
Lucien Hougardy was born on 13.02.1912. While we know nothing about his childhood, we do know some things about his captivity: he was drafted in 1939 at the beginning of the war, as part of the TTR (Troops of Radio Transmission). In 1940 he was...
Renato Gargano Italian Military Internee Born in San Giorgio a Cremano (Naples) on 16.01.1923. Died in Naples on 28.01.2002. He carries out his obligatory military service in Marina in Venice. Here on 8 September 1943 he is captured by the german troops and he is conducted to Thorn in Poland....
Harold Thompson BROOK – 2 NZEF, 33rd Battery, Gunner 61316, Unit: Artillery Reinfs August 3rd,1919 (Kaitangata, New Zealand) – 27 Jan, 1945 (Stalag VIIIA Gorlitz,Germany) [caption id="attachment_14498" align="alignleft" width="960"] H. T. Brook, Cairo 1941[/caption] Harold Thompson BROOK was born in Kaitangata , a small mining town south of...
Jane Symmes aus Neuseeland besucht die Gedenkstätte Stalag VIII A als Endpunkt ihrer Reise auf den Spuren ihres Vaters Sergeant Eric George Williams. Sergeant Eric George Williams Royal Regiment of Artillery : Army Number - 905524 : Prisoner ID - 81233 Eric was a British soldier who...