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At the end of the last week, on 14 October, our Museum in Łambinowice was visited by a grandson of Lieutenant Czesław Sikorski, Stanisław Ejsmont, and his wife. The purpose of the visit, made possible by Dr. Dawid Kobiałka, was to donate POW memorabilia of the grandfather.

Lieutenant Czesław Sikorski was a teacher of history and geography, and also held position as head of schools. Fighting in the ranks of the Tuchole Battalion of National Defence, he was taken into the German captivity in 1939 (no.: 443/X A) and was detained, among other places, in Oflags X A Itzehoe and VI B Dössel.

The collection of prisoner-of-war memorabilia is mainly related to the teaching activities of Lieutenant Czesław Sikorski, who, while in captivity, worked, among other things, in the Officers' Teachers Circle in Oflag VI B Dössel and completed a Higher Course for Teachers there. The collection donated to the Museum includes a notebook with notes containing, among other things, an account of the battles of the Tuchola Battalion of National Defence, a description of the first weeks of captivity, and a complete list of the victims of an Allied bombing of Oflag VI B Dössel in September 1944, in addition, nine notebooks with notes on pedagogy (some of which are still valid!), geography and history (these were, as we are informed by the Donor, used in his job as a teacher after the war); identity cards and post-war documents related to his stay on German territory, as well as his return to Poland in the autumn of 1945.

Thank you very much for the donation!