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On our own behalf and that of the European Centre Memory, Education, Culture in Zgorzelec, where our temporary exhibition under the title “»Daddy, when will you come back?« Polish families in the years of World War 2”, is on display at the moment, we would like to invite you to get acquainted with this interesting project casting light on a very intimate side of everyday life in the wartime reality.

Let us remind that the exhibition “Daddy, when will you come back?” is one of the most sought-after projects on our offer, recognized, among others, in the Contest for the Best Museal Event of the Year organized by the Marshall of Opole Voivodeship (2018 edition). Its idea is to make a presentation of how rapidly World War 2 pushed the lives of Polish families into unchartered waters by disrupting contacts between the nearest members. This problem area has been illustrated with the rich POWs’ correspondence, drawings  and cards remaining in the collection of our Museum, which were made by preschool children from the kindergarten run by Janina Suska in Kraśnik. The engagement of the Head of that educational institution resulted in the unique children’s creations finding their way in 1943 into the hands of the POWs interned in Oflag VI B Dössel.

Thanks to the cooperation with the European Centre Memory, Education, Culture in Zgorzelec this moving history can be popularized and made known to more receivers, who can learn that a war means not only military  operations in battlefields or fighting, but also affects everyday lives of families touched by this cataclysm, full of hardship and psychic suffering.