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The ninth edition of "Lamsdorf -Auschwitz. Auschwitz-Lamsdorf" project
On 5-6 October, there took place another edition of the educational project carried out in cooperation with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. It was addressed to high school students and emphasised the connection between the POW camp complex at Lamsdorf (1939-1945) and the former German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau (1940-1945).
This inter-institutional educational initiative, which has taken the title "Lamsdorf-Auschwitz. Auschwitz-Lamsdorf", was held for the ninth time this year, and was possible thanks to funds from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Victims Memorial Foundation. The project’s study stays at both memorial sites, during which students visit the post-camp grounds and exhibitions, and then take part in workshops and lectures introducing them to the common history of both places on the basis of the biographies of prisoners-of-war and camp inmates, are of the essence. This approach allows participants of the project to learn of not so often mentioned facts about the lives of, among others, Father Maximilian Kolbe and Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki, as well as to find out more about the fate of the Soviet prisoners-of-war of Stalag 318/VIII F (344) Lamsdorf who were sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and the British prisoners-of-war who were taken from Stalag VIII B (344) Lamsdorf to one of the largest IG Farben work units in Monowitz at the site of Auschwitz III.
On the first day of the project, the young people from Public High School No. 3 in Opole visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, where they met with the specialists: Szymon Kowalski from the Museum Archives and Dr. Jacek Lachendro, while on the second day the student were in Łambinowice where they attended, among other things, the workshops and lectures conducted by Dr. Anna Wickiewicz and Dr. Piotr Stanek, as well as participated in the anniversary commemoration of the arrival of the first transport of Warsaw insurgents to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
The event brought us a lot of satisfaction. The participants assured us that they felt the same way.
