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1942

Overview

Group portrait of British Prisoners of War on railway working party at Stalag 344, Poland

Historical information

Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf was a German Army prisoner of war camp, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the small town of Lamsdorf (now called Łambinowice) in Silesia. The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. At this same location there had been a prisoner camp during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.
It was reopened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. Later approximately 100,000 prisoner from Australia, Belgium, British India, British Palestine, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the United States and Yugoslavia passed through this camp.
In 1943, the Lamsdorf camp was split up, and many of the prisoners were transferred to two new base camps Stalag VIII-C Sagan (modern Żagań) and Stalag VIII-D Teschen (modern Český Těšín). The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-32-P1996.373.1f

Item type

Photographs

Themes

War and Conflict
War and Conflict > World War 2

Year

1942

Geotag

50.541263914276, 17.574147282003

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