Calendar of events

1862–1864
The Prussian authorities have a military range built near the village of Lamsdorf.

1870–1871
The first POW camp designed for French soldiers taken prisoner in the Franco-Prussian War functions in the area.

1914–1918
In connection with the military actions of World War 1 there functions in Lamsdorf a POW camp designed for soldiers of the Entente.

1921–1924
In the area of the former POW camp there is organized a repatriation camp for Germans who come to the Reich from the territory incorporated into Poland.

26 VIII 1939
The German authorities establish Dulag B Lamsdorf – a transition camp designed for Polish POWs, which is run by the Wehrmacht.

5 IX 1939
The first transport of Polish POWs arrives in Lamsdorf.

4 X 1939
The German authorities transform the transition camp Dulag B Lamsdorf into the permanent camp known as Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf.

14 VI 1940
The first British POWs come to Lamsdorf.

VII 1941
The first transport of Soviet POWs reaches Lamsdorf. The German authorities organize a new camp for them – Stalag 318/VIII F Lamsdorf.

X 1941
The camp authorities transfer about 4 thousand Soviet POWs to KZ Auschwitz and about another 2.5 thousand to KZ Gross-Rosen.

VI–XII 1943
There follow organizational changes in the camp. Stalag VIII B is enlarged by incorporating the POW camp for Soviets (Stalag 318/VIII F) and Stalag VIII D Teschen, thus becoming the largest complex of POW camps in Europe.

XII 1943
Stalag 344 is established. It is divided into the so-called British camp (Britenlager) and the so-called Soviet camp (Russenlager).

X–XI 1944
About 6 thousand Warsaw insurgents and about 1.6 thousand Slovakian ones come to the camp.

20 I 1945
Germans begin evacuation of the camp.

17–18 III 1945
The camp is liberated by detachments of the Red Army.

VII 1945
Mass graves of Soviet POWs are discovered near the village of Kleuschnitz/Klucznik.

VII 1945
The Polish authorities organize a labor camp designed for German civilians in the area of Łambinowice.

XI 1945–I 1946
Works of the Soviet and Polish-Soviet commissions are in progress. They are to investigate the crimes perpetrated on the Soviet POWs. Survey exhumation of corpses is conducted.

2 XI 1945 i 26 I 1946
During the state-religious ceremonies symbolic funerals of the deceased POWs take place.

X 1946
The labor camp in Łambinowice is closed down.

1964
The Cemetery of the Soviet POWs is opened and the Monument of Martyrdom of Prisoners-of-War is  unveiled.

1964 
The Museum of Martyrdom of Prisoners-of-War is established in Łambinowice as a branch of the Regional Museum of Opole Silesia in Opole.

1965
The Museum of Martyrdom of Prisoners-of-War in Łambinowice becomes transformed into an independent institution of culture subordinated to the Minister of Culture and Art.

1968
The areas of the former camps and the war cemeteries are recognized as the Monument of National Remembrance in Łambinowice.

1973
The name of the Museum is changed into the Museum of Martyrdom and Fight of Prisoners-of-War in Łambinowice.

1984
The institution is again renamed into: The Central Museum of Prisoners-of-War in Łambinowice-Opole.

1991
The process of commemorating the victims of the labor camp in Łambinowice (1945–1946) is begun. A cross and information board are set up in the grounds of the former camp.

1992
The Museum is entered into the register of national institutions of culture.

1995
The Monument of the Victims of the Labor Camp in Łambinowice (1945–1946) is unveiled.

1997 
The Monument of Warsaw Insurgents – POWs of Stalag 344 Lamsdorf is unveiled.

1999
The control over the Museum is handed over to Opole Province.

2000–2002
The military range becomes liquidated.

2002
The Cemetery of the Victims of the Labor Camp in Łambinowice is opened.

2002
The areas of the former camps and the war cemeteries are recognized as the Site of National Remembrance.