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The Director of the Museum, Dr. Violetta Rezler-Wasielewska, addressed a request to the Governor of Lower Silesia, Jarosław Obremski, and the Mayor of Zgorzelec, Rafał Gronicz, to do all that is possible to prevent the conversion of part of the former Stalag VIII A Görlitz site, located in Zgorzelec-Koźlice, into a housing estate.

Stalag VIII A Görlitz was the first camp established in 1939 on the area of the VIII Military District of the Wehrmacht (Silesia). Together with Lamsdorf, and other prisoner-of-war camps in Silesia, it was a place of isolation for many thousands of privates, non-commissioned officers of various nationalities, and extermination of the Red Army soldiers, as well as a reservoir of cheap workforce. It was also the first POW camp on the way of prisoners evacuated from the Lamsdorf camp complex in January 1945. 

Today, the site of the former Stalag VIII A Görlitz is one of the few in our country where commemorative activity about prisoners-of-war is conducted and popularization of the knowledge about their fate takes place, but also education and cultural activity is carried out. The European Centre for Remembrance, Education, Culture, together with the Remembrance, Education, Culture Foundation, with which our Museum cooperates, function there.