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At the end of last year, worker of the CMJW’s Department of Collections and Conservation Dawid Żak, won a widely publicised victory in the finale of the quiz show The Weakest Link (Jeden z dziesięciu in Polish). Soon after that there was announced that the winner had made a decision to donate part of the prize to a good cause: the restoration of one the crosses at the Old Prisoners-of-War Cemetery in Łambinowice - as part of the "Give Me a Memory" campaign.

Due to the completion of conservation works, we would like to inform you that the cross selected for restoration - coming from the grave of a POW who died in the Lamsdorf camp on November 28, 1917 - has successfully gone through the necessary stages of restoration: hot steam hydro-cleaning, disinfection with the use of chemicals, surface sandblasting, securing by metal reinforcement and filled up of surface defects. As a result, the mosses and lichens covering on the cross was removed, and the discolouration caused by fungi and microorganisms disappeared, and the inscription became much more legible.

The "Give Me a Memory" campaign has been conducted to renew the POW crosses on the graves of WWI soldiers of the Entente states since 2021 by the Museum-supporting Association of Friends of the CMJW. Anyone can join it, as even a small support counts. We would like to urge you to contact us, and make a donation to the account:

Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Centralnego Muzeum Jeńców Wojennych (Association of Friends of the Central Museum-of-Prisoners of War)
ul. Minorytów 3, 45-017 Opole
KRS:0000224452
Account: 64 1240 5178 1111 0010 8213 2324
Title: "Restoration of the crosses in Łambinowice" or "Akcja Podaruj mi pamięć" ("Give Me a Memory" campaign).