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Mementos from …. an old sofa
Just before the Christmas, an extraordinary collection was added to the Museum set – 12 notebooks and maps (with a military trail of September 1939), documents, photographs, publications and an identity tag. The notebooks, with almost three thousand of pages, are diaries from the captivity period of Captain Zdzisław Koziołkowski, dated from 4th September 1939 until 7th September 1946 (with exclusion of 16.03.1943 – 7.10.1943 due to the missing notebook). The notes are about, among other things, his time in Dorsten i Dössel, and are supplemented by a typescript from 1976, entitled "Memoir from Ofic. POW Camp No. VI B in Doessel (Westphalia)".
The uniqueness of the collection is underscored by it sensational discovery in the hidden-place of an old sofa in the Koziołkowski’s apartment in Ostrowie, where the set probably had remained hidden for several years. After the death of its owner, the sofa, together with other stuff, was supposed to be destroyed. By chance, the hidden place, and it content, was discovered by Piotr Kosmal, an acquaintance of the widow of the prisoner-of-war, who, together with his wife, was helping her out. This happened in August 2018, and the sensational find was reported in pages of ,,Kurier Ostrowski”.
Currently, the diaries are being inventoried.
We express our gratitude to Piotr Kosmala and Tomasz Cieślak for this valuable gift.
