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The 79th anniversary of the arrival of the first transport of Warsaw insurgents to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf, commemorated on 6 October, aroused particularly great interest of representatives of regional and national institutions and political bodies, as well as individuals, including numerous high school students. The ceremony took place in front of the Monument to Warsaw Insurgents - Prisoners of Stalag 344 Lamsdorf at the Site of National Remembrance in Łambinowice.

Following the play of the national anthem by the ceremonial guard of the Polish Army, the floor was taken by the representatives of the Warsaw insurgents' community: Helena Kamerska, followed by Stanisław Wołczaski. After the veterans' speeches, Deputy Director of the Museum, Dr. Renata Kobylarz-Buła, took the floor on behalf of the event's organisers, recalling, alongside the memoirs of Krystyna Rogalska - one of the participants in the uprising and former prisoner-of-war of Stalag 344 Lamsdorf - a 1979 memento written down in the Museum's Book of Remembrance - a wish that this place and the artefacts related to it could survive as a warning to posterity.

More speeches were given by: Tomasz Siemoniak, MP, Jerzy Czerwiński, senator, Tomasz Witkowski, deputy governor of Opole Voivodship, Magdalena Merta, who read out a letter from Jan Józef Kasprzyk, co-organiser of the ceremony and Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, and Stanisława Borzemska, curator responsible for the Museum in the years 1964-2005. She mentioned a little-known fact that already in the 1970s the Warsaw insurgents were in touch with the Łambinowice Museum, among other things, by donating memorabilia to its collections.

Then, soldiers from the 91st Logistic Battalion in Komprachcice, at the signal of the commander of the ceremony, delivered roll call of remembrance. The key point of the ceremony was laying of flowers and lighting candles at the Monument, while the crowning point of the whole event was the singing military songs: "Śpij kolego", "Modlitwa obozowa" and the ceremonial song of the Polish Army "My pierwsza brygada", followed by the carrying out the banners and the conclusion of the official part of the anniversary commemoration announced by the master of ceremony, Dr. Anna Wickiewicz.

Letter from Jan Józef Kasprzyk, Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression.

Photo by S. Dubiel/CMJW.