WARTIME GUIDES

Dear Ex-Prisoners, if you would like to share your story about your stay in  Stalag XXA, we will be happy to publish it. Please contact us (wartimeguides@blogspot.com), if you are interested in this project.

Winter is good for us and our readers. This time, my article about Stalag XXA history and culture was published in Toruń's year-book ! It's a pleasure to be a part of this publication.  ps. thank you Paweł for your support

I'm happy to say that my article about Stalag XXA was published in a Ex-Prisoner of War Association newsletter! If you interested in it please write to us.

Finally  we've  published, together with Historical-War Museum, a leaflet about Stalag XXA . It wouldn't have been done without a help from Local Tourist Organisation in Toruń and Toruń City Council. We hope, you will get a grasp of Stalag XXA history and perhaps motivate you to visit Toruń! Here you can view English / Polish version.

There are moments when our trips looks like  investigation than normal tourism. A story of Johny Walker is one of the most interesting at this time. He was an Australian POW who was imprisoned in Fort XV. During his stay he was preparing Whisky and apart from that he also made false keys to food storage. Before Australians were moved from Torun he hid keys in a hole near a window in  a Fort.  After 70. years his grandson Peter came to Torun to see where John spent 5 years and also we tried to find  keys. After few hours of walking and searching we found wires which look like the faked keys. But even John isn't sure that the wires were the same like these during WWII. By the way this is another prove for us that a lot of issues aren't closed. Probably parts of faked keys Preparations of whisky in Fort XV

       It's very nice when an international cooperation isn't limited only to the internet. On 1.08 (in Poland this is an  anniversary of Warsaw uprising) we opened an exhibiton dedicated to Australian POW. The exhibition visited  President of the town, members of the Historical War Museum (who have given us space for the exhibit) the and local media Thanks to members of the 2/5 Australian General Hospital Association we possessed a lot of worthy things: unique pictures, books, posters, postcards etc. The most important is the flag (Red Ensign) based on the same one which was created in Stalag XX A in Thorn. To see the TV relation from the event click HERE  An Exhibition in Historical War Museum an original flag during sport parade in Fort XV

If anybody believes that world is small, it is! At the begining was an email for some information about Australians soldiers in Stalag XX A. From word to word our cooperation  with the southern part of the world has given us fruitful results such as sensational materials about a small regiment of Australians in Stalag XXA, Torun. We may also boast that now we are honored members of 2/5 Australian General Hospital association! From our blog we would like to thank for whole help and knowledge to: Ray Butterfield and all memmebers. The badge of 2/5 Australian General Hospital