Once again, guests from Great Britain visited us. Among them was the daughter of a British prisoner of war and the son of a soldier who fought at Monte Cassino. Gunner Charles James George Davis of the 140th (Army) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, was mobilized on 1 September 1939 and sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force. He was captured by the Germans on May 29, 1940. He spent the rest of the war in the Stalag XXA prisoner of war camp in Toruń and in work commandos in the region. In Toruń, he was held in a sub-camp of Fort XII in Podgórze, where there is a band and he plays the trumpet. What was it like for his presence among our exhibits, a trumpet mouthpiece found in the area of Fort XII. The guests were guided around the museum exhibition by: Toruń guide Paweł Bukowski and two MHW volunteers, Weronika and Zofia. In a fascinating way, it introduces visitors to the history of Poland, the city and the fate of its inhabitants during World War II.
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.