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Europe » Poland » Opole Province » Opole May 17th 2018

Lamsdorf. Stalag VlllB Marion’s Uncle Roland, Dr Webster, was captured in Dunkirk in 1940, then spent time in two Oflags (camps for officers). He tangled with dysentery and typhus at the first and the cramped conditions of an old castle (not Colditz) at the second. In 1941 He arrived at Lamsdorf Stalag Vlll B (now in Poland) and became one of a team of British medics in charge of the health of the prisoners there. My dad arrived in 1943 on a cattle truck train from Chieta in Southern Italy, via Rome, the Bremner Pass, Innsbruck and a transit camp, Stalag VIIA at Moosburg in Austria. Then through Nuernberg and Dresden to Lamsdorf. Both would have arrived by train. The station is a single platform (Sowin) with little to see. The Russian prisoners arrived at the ... read more
The Cemetery
The memorial to all Łambinovice dead at the Russian unmarked grave cemetery
The Russian VlllF camp

Europe » Poland » Opole Province » Nysa September 20th 2006

Hello there everyone. We are now in Poland and are well, if slightly ragged around the edges. Prague was fun but we were glad to leave as it was so packed and touristy. We saw some interesting stuff though, from a museum of Communism to a frantic jazz band in a cellar. We then cycled for a day to Kutna Hora, a little medieval town which had at one time been very important due to its silver mines, but once the silver ran out it became forgotten about. We spent a day there wandering about, buying pyjamas for me (I left my old ones in Prague - oops), eating dumpling-laden food in a beer hall and marvelling at the sights in an alchemy museum. Whilst there we saw the most bizarre thing we have encountered yet ... read more




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