The Site of National Remembrance at Łambinowice
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The complicated history of Łambinowice (until the end of World War 2 known as Lamsdorf) dates back to the seventies of the 19th century. It is connected with the establishment of a Prussian military range, where camps of detention were organized later on. The first camp was established here during the Prussian-French War (1870-1871) and was designed for about 3.5-4 thousand French Prisoners-of-War. In the years of World War 1, there existed in the range, a POW camp, where 90 thousand soldiers of the Russian, Rumanian, Serbia, Italian, British and French armies (the Entante) were interned. In the period of the twenty years between the Wars, the area was occupied by a few dozen thousand of German immigrants from the lands annexed to Poland. In the time of World War 2, Lamsdorf was included into the biggest German camp complexes in Europe. At that time, 300 thousand soldiers of the anti-Nazi coalition, belonging to almost 50 nations, were interned here (including nearly 200 thousand Soviet POWs).
The last of the camps was established here by Poles after World War 2, and functioned in the years 1945-1946. There were mainly German civilians detained in it, destined to be displaced far into Germany. The number of the people who were kept here is assessed at about 5 thousand.
Several dozen thousand people detained at Lamsdorf/Łambinowice died. The war cemeteries containing their ashes, together with the remnants of the camp buildings, are an important material trace of the tragic past. Since 1968 they have been treated as a Monument of National Remembrance, the name being changed, in 2002, into that of the Site of National Remembrance at Łambinowice.
- The camp designed for the French Prisoners-of-War
- The Prisoner-of-War Camp of the First World War
- The repatriates camp 1921-1924
- Stary Cmentarz Jeniecki
- Obozy jenieckie w latach II wojny światowej
- Stalag VIII B/Stalag 344 Lamsdorf, tzw. Britenlager
- Muzeum w Łambinowicach
- The Labor Camp at Łambinowice
- Stalag 318/VIII F/344 Lamsdorf, tzw. Russenlager
- The Cemetery of the Soviet Prisoners-of-War
