[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 1st of November is a day to commemorate the late. In Poland it is a very important day in the canon of Christian holidays. On November 1st, family members gather at the graves of their passed loved...
[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_single_image image="15332" img_size="900x400" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text] The Multimedia Guide is still available at the European Centre Remembrance, Education, Culture, at Meetingpoint and other selected places. But you can also access it online. Free of charge. How does the audio guide work? To activate...
[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]Under the title "Work in the excavation field", Marcel Beyer deals with Stalag VIII A in the KULTURSTIFTER and describes the work of the Foundation Remembrance, Education, Culture and the Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen. In a stirring article, Marcel...
[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]Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Teachers, Dear Students, Dear Readers, This publication “The Prisoner of War Camp Stalag VIII A Görlitz. Didactic Guide for Historical-Political Educational Work at the Stalag VIII A Memorial Site” is intended, as the title suggests,...
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...
New offer of the European Centre - multimedia guide to the Stalag VIII A Memorial. An audio guide to the Stalag VIII A Memorial has been published as part of the Interreg project 'To know and to understand. Memory for the Future' project, an audio...
[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] Ladies and Gentlemen, we would like to inform all those interested in the fate of the POWs, soldiers of the Second World War, that under the aegis of the Central Museum of POW Camps, based in Lambinowice, the "POW...
[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]On Tuesday, May 31, we were visited in Görlitz-Zgorzelec by Juan Muñoz, a young composer from Colombia who is currently studying at the University of Music in Dresden. Our partner orchestra, Sinfonietta Dresden, has commissioned him to write...
[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]On May 7, 2022, in front of the monument to the prisoners of war of Stalag VIIIA, a commemoration ceremony was held, organized by the Foundation Remembrance, Education, Culture and Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen e.V. on the occasion of...
[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...
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...