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The 78th anniversary of the liberation of Stalag 344 Lamsdorf is approaching
17 March 2023 will mark the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Traditionally, our Museum together with the Commune Office in Łambinowice is preparing to organise celebrations commemorating this event.
The commemoration will begin at 12.00 o'clock in front of the Monument to the Martyrdom of Prisoners-of-War. The programme of the event includes:
- singing national anthem,
- commemorative speeches,
- prayers,
- roll call of remembrance,
- gun salute,
- laying of flowers and lighting of candles.
The commemoration enjoys the honorary patronage of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Prof. Piotr Gliński, the Opole Voivode, Adrian Czubak, and, the Marshal of Opole Voivodship, Andrzej Bula, as well as, under the media patronage of TVP 3 Opole, Radio Opole S.A., Radio DOXA, "Nowa Trybuna Opolska” and "Nowiny Nyskie”.
The participation in the event have been declared by reresentatives of state and local government authorities and diplomatic corps of the countries whose soldiers were held at Lamsdorf, in addition to the family members of former prisoners-of-war of Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
Please confirm your intention to lay flowers and use our free transport by 16 March (tel.: 77 453 78 72 or e-mail: ). The coach will leave from the car park in front of "Toropol" on Barlickiego Street in Opole at 11.00 a.m. The return to Opole is scheduled for around 2 p.m.
We encourage you to follow the museum's Facebook profile (link), where every Wednesday, until 17 March, under the slogan #JedenzTrzystuTysięcy [#OneoftheThreeHundredThousand], we present figures of prisoners-of-war held in the Lamsdorf camps during the Second World War.