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The Collection and Conservation Department is engaged in advanced research and inventory works on the collection of war correspondence given to the Museum by Jakub Terakowski on 31 August 2021. 

The collection contains copies of letter sheets, postcards, and fragments of parcel shipping forms from the years 1943-1945. The correspondence was maintained by Captain Kazimierz Lorenz (1896-1973), a prisoner of KL VI E Dorsten and VI B Dössel, and Jadwiga Terakowska, who was a "war mother", and grandmother of the donor. The collection is an album.

Capitan Kazimierz Lorenz was, among others, a soldier of the Polish Legions, player in Czarni Lwów football club, and a lecturer at the pre-war Sanitary Training Centre in Warsaw. In 1939-1945, first, he was interned in Rumania and then held in the Wehrmacht POW camps, wherein he performed functions related with health care. Soon after the end of his captivity, he was in charge of the sick bay at the Polish Military Centre in Dössel.

Jadwiga Terakowska came from a respected Cracovian family. In the 1930s, she and her husband ran a haberdashery. Her son was Janusz Terakowski, a philologist, photographer, draughtsman, poet and author of lyrics to famous songs, and her grandson was our donor – Jakub Terakowski, about whom we write more on our Facebook.