Temporary exhibitions
Prezentacja wystawy pt. „Igrzyska za drutami”
The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Sport and Tourism in Warsaw. It refers to the upcoming XXXI Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, which will be held between 5 and 21 August.
The exhibition presents a story not a well known Olympic Games, which took place in the Olympics years in 1940 and 1944. They were held behind the barbed wire of Stalag XIII A Nuremberg-Langwasser in 1940 and Oflags II C Woldenberg (Dobiegniew) and II D Gross Born (Borne Sulinowo) in 1944. The Games were organized by the Polish prisoners-of-war. The competitions - although they did not have the framwork and the momentum of the Games organized in peace time and never were recognized by the International Olympic Committee - carried the same message: reminded of noble forms of competition and the accompanying them the idea of sportsmanship, initiated by the ancient Greeks .
It is a story of great courage, steadfastness, fortitude and immense physical effort of sportsmen behind the barbed wires. It is told by photographs, documents and unusual - as for camp conditions - objects, e.g. an olympic flag, medals or cups. The exhibition also presents the profiles of outstanding people of Polish sport, who initiated physical activity of prisoners-of-war in the camps ran by the Wehrmacht, like Teodor Niewiadomski, Arkady Brzezicki and Antoni Grzesik.
The exhibition can be seen between: May 1-24 and May 31-June 30.
Free entry.
