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One day after All Saints’ Day (November 3, at 4 p.m.), as part of another „Łambinowice Museum Meetings”, will be held an event Na wiecznej warcie. 150 lat Starego Cmentarza Jenieckiego w Łambinowicach [On the eternal watch. 150 years of the Old Prisoners-of-War  Cemetery in Łambinowice]. If the weather conditions are good, the meeting will take place on the site of the necropolis, otherwise – in the building of the Museum in Łambinowice.

To get precisely acquainted with the history of the Old POW Cemetery in Łambinowice, one has to go back to the times of the Prussian-French War, when the first prisoner-of-war camp in the history of Lamsdorf/Lambinowice was established there on the already existing military training ground, in proximity of which were buried deceased French soldiers. Their burial place was solemnly consecrated as a cemetery in April 1871, and a major role in this event was played by the Polish Jesuit Father Józef Hołubowicz, chaplain of the Lamsdorf POW camp. This exceptional figure, as well as many other interesting historical facts, will be presented by the head of the Research Department of the Museum, Dr. Piotr Stanek.

The meeting, taking place under the patronage of the Head of Łambinowice Commune, Tomasz Karpiński, will be attended by the President of the Association of Friends of the Central Museum of Prisoners-of-War, Dr. Iwona Konopnicka, and the Museum Director, Dr. Violetta Rezler-Wasielewska.