WARTIME GUIDES

Last long weekend, Paweł was asked by international radio RMF FM to give a talk about heritage and tourism of Stalag XX A. Talk was concrentrated on fort XI where you can see wartime pictures commemorating soldiers, prayers, political slogans etc.. Fort XV which is known for its interesting story. During the times of Stalag XXA, 1939-1945 there were imprisoned poeple of diffrent nationaliteis like Australians and Italians who refused to work for the enemy. Therefore, they had time to organize sport or theatre events. Learn more about fort XI and fort XV in the links.

I'm happy to say that Paweł's work has been described by The Guardian! The story tells about Peter Walker's visit in Toruń last year. He came to Toruń to find his grandfather's keys which he hid during his stay in Stalag XXA. And thanks to Paweł's research he managed to do so! after 70 years. This story is very motivating for us and shows us that our work is needed. Here is the link to the article

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