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On 25 April, our Museum workers once again were invited to the lecture hall of Faculty of Construction and Architecture at the Opole University of Technology. This time, the subject of the lecture was inspired by the exhibition "I love You, see you...", displayed at the Opole seat of the Museum, and said: "If she loves, will she wait? A heart behind barbed wires".

The speakers were the authors of the exhibition, Dr. Anna Czerner and Dr. Kamil Weber, who at first focused on outlining the social context of love during and just before the Second World War. This was followed by a presentation of the various shades of love relationships - those purely platonic as well as intimate ones - connecting prisoners-of-war with women: from long-distance relationships via mail with their darlings who were waiting for them at home while struggling with the reality of the occupation, to relationships that did not stand the test of time and separation, and forbidden affairs between stalag prisoners and German women.

The meeting ended with an invitation to visit the exhibition at the Museum, the distribution of nice-looking heart stickers promoting the exhibition, and commemorative inscriptions in the students' transcripts. We would like tot remind you that the Academy of Young Hearts was established as the University of the Second and Third Age at the Opole University of Technology with a typical for such initiatives formula of cyclical lectures documented in students’ transcripts of records.

We hope that our interesting and unusual offer was appreciated by the rather large audience of 50 listeners.

Photo: Kamil Kalinowski/Opole University of Technology.