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Lecture delivered at The Pilecki Family House Museum (Dom Rodziny Pileckich)
Our exhibition 'The End and the Beginning. Warsaw insurgents in German captivity" is in Ostrowia Mazowiecka now. Yesterday, Dr. Piotr Stanek, head of the Research Department, gave a thematically related to the exhibition lecture.
The meeting entitled "Back behind barbed wire – the prisoner-of-war Witold Pilecki", took place as part of "The Evening with History" series. Its main topic was a still little-known episode in the life of the "Auschwitz Volunteer" – his imprisonment after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, i.e. internment in Stalag 344 Lamsdorf, and then in Oflag VII A Murnau.
The Cavalry Captain’s POW story is one of many which happened after the fall of the uprising. In the aftermath of the struggle, about 17,5 thousand of its participants – men, women and children, were taken prisoner by the Germans. From the transit camps in Ożarów and Pruszków they were taken to far more distant from Warsaw, permanent camps.
The exhibition "The End and the Beginning. Warsaw Insurgents in German Captivity", curated by Dr. Piotr Stanek, has been created to tell the story of the POW fate of the Home Army soldiers. It is housed at The Pilecki Family House Museum until the end of February.
Photo: The Pilecki Family House Museum.
