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This year, the celebration in front of the Monument of Warsaw Insurgents – Prisoners of Stalag 344 Lamsdorf was attended by a good number of participants led by combatants Helena Kamerska and Stanisław Wołczaski, accompanied by representatives of, among others, State Protection Service, Kedyw (Directorate of Sabotage) Circle, Operation Centre “B” ŚZŻAK and of the Board of the World Union of Veterans of Home Army, District of Warsaw, led by President Prof. Dr hab. Wiesław Wysocki.

Apart from the members of combatants’ organizations and institutions responsible for preservation of memory (among others, representatives of Opole and Wrocław Departments of the Institute of National Remembrance), there were also representatives of local government, uniformed services (including posts of the Border Guards from Opole, Racibórz and Ruda Śląska), Local School Authorities of Opole Voivodeship as well as individual schools: Public Grammar Comprehensive School No. VI in Opole, Complex of Schools in Niemodlin, Complex of Schools in Tułowice and Public Primary School in Łambinowice. The soldiers providing the military setting of the ceremony came from the 91st Logistics Battalion “Ziemia Opolska” from Komprachcice – the unit of the 10th Logistics Brigade from Opole.

The ceremony was opened by the Warsaw Insurgents with their personal, full of emotions accounts of the August Uprising. Then, Director of the Museum, Dr Violetta Rezler-Wasielewska, thanked the participants for attending and referred the historical context of the anniversary to challenges which are posed to the moral condition of contemporary man. Afterwards, the floor was taken by daughter of a Warsaw Insurgent, Anna Witkowska, and President of the Board of Kedyw Directorate of Sabotage, Operation Centre “B” of the World Union of Veterans of Home Army, who represented the group of Insurgents’ families that had come to take part in the celebration from Warsaw. That voice was complemented by the speech made by the accompanying representative of the State Protection Service – the formation to continue the idea of the Operation Centre “B”. Following the remembrance roll call and gun salute, the participants laid flowers and lit candles at the foot of the Monument. The thematic walk “Here were Warsaw Insurgents” ended the ceremony at the Site of Remembrance. The walk consisted in visiting the remnants of Stalag 318/VIII F (344) Lamsdorf and the exhibition “Place with a scar” in the context of the fates of Warsaw Insurgents. At the same time, a meeting of youth and Helena Kamerska and Stanisław Wołczaski took place.

We would like to thank everybody for their presence!