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The trust put in our institution and the generosity of the Meeting's participants gives satisfaction, especially as the donated memorabilia are very interesting and divergent. Here is a summary of the artefacts and the people who have donated them:

• a collection of prisoner-of-war correspondence of Second Lieutenant Stanisław Markiel, a prisoner of Oflag VIII A Kreuzburg and Oflag VII A Murnau - Barbara Chutkiewicz, his daughter;
• a spoon, probably from the Toruń prisoner-of-war camp at Glinki - Paweł Dziewitt, a relative of the POWs Szczepan Dziewit (his great-grandfather, Soviet captivity) and Stefan Dziewit (his uncle, German captivity);
• a framed POW letter sheet from Major Ludwik Niezabitowski, a prisoner of Oflag VII A Murnau - Sławomir Frątczak, Head of the Katyń Museum;
• photographs and correspondence of Lieutenant Leon Urbanowicz, a prisoner of Oflag VII A Murnau - Marek Garniewicz, his grandson;
•  a wooden framed desk clock made by Lieutenant Michał Górski at Oflag X C Lübeck in 1944. - Piotr Górski, his son;
• an oil painting of Lieutenant Tadeusz Homułka painted on a sheet by Lieutenant Aleksander Jędrzejowski at Oflag II B Arnswalde or II D Gross Born - Andrzej Jędrzejowski, his son;
• a keepsake photograph of prisoners of Stalag IV A Hohnstein - Lidia Kordasz-Garniewicz, a granddaughter of POW Rifleman Franciszek Gmyrek; 
• photographs, personal items, watercolours (depicting Second Lieutenant Jan Supryn and members of his family) taken, made and painted at Oflag VII A Murnau by Second Lieutenant Lech Dobrowolski and sent out from the camp in a wooden box, and copies of materials concerning Stanisław Jankowski, a border guard deported to the USSR, later conscripted into the Anders Army; Marta Krajewska, the granddaughter of Jan Supryn and Stanisław Jankowski;
• copies of prisoner-of-war correspondence and photographs of Captain Marian Patronowicz and copies of documents of Cavalry Captain Szczęsny Rożałowski - Barbara Rożałowska, Sz. Szczęsny’s daughter;
• copies of digitised family photographs and a recording of memories concerning Ensign Teodor Minola, a prisoner of Oflag VII A Murnau; Cezary Sawicki, a relative of T. Minola;
• a written account concerning the father Private Józef Turkowski, a prisoner of Stalag XIII A Nürnberg, later a forced worker, and the mother (they met during their forced labour in Germany), as well as other family members, wrote down during the Family Meeting - Maria Turkowska, his daughter.

Would like to thank all the participants of the Meeting for their cooperation with our Museum, so valuable from the perspective of preserving national heritage!