Two brothers from Edinburgh, Scotland, visited Toruń to follow the wartime footsteps of their father a British soldier who served in the Royal Signals and spent the final years of the Second World War as a prisoner of war at Stalag XXA Thorn. Their journey was not only a family pilgrimage, but also an important testimony to the memory of the Allied prisoners held at the German prisoner-of-war camp in Toruń. Following the Story of a British Prisoner of Stalag XXA Toruń welcomed special guests from Scotland – two brothers who travelled from Edinburgh to discover the place connected with their father’s wartime experiences. Their father served as a Private in the Royal Signals, the British Army’s communications corps. In 1940, he took part in the fighting in France as a member of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). During the dramatic events of the French campaign, he was captured by German forces near Dunkirk. The rest of the war was spent in German captivity. He became one of the...
This blog is dedicated to people who were imprisoned in Stalag XXA in Thorn in 1939-45. We would like to show you that in the shadows of the beautiful gothic city there is also forgotten history.