Lamsdorf

WWII medical equipment and clothing found at German POW camp where over 40,000 Allied prisoners died

Included in the find at the Lamsdorf POW camp now in Łambinowice were doctor's needles, a fragment of a razor, as well as underwear and uniform buttons, metal utensils, and cast-iron elements of heating stoves. Daniel Frymark from the Central Museum of Prisoners-of-War/CC BY-SA 4.0/iwm.org.uk

Included in the find at the Lamsdorf POW camp now in Łambinowice were doctor's needles, a fragment of a razor, as well as underwear and uniform buttons, metal utensils, and cast-iron elements of heating stoves.

Son of POW on quest to find 'lost rings of Auschwitz'

While a prisoner at a POW camp known as E715  in what was then the town of Auschwitz , British prisoner James Archer became friends with ‘five tough Polish guys’ and a Jewish engraver inmate who made the gang six identical rings with their initials. Now Archer’s 74-year-old son is trying to track down the fate of the rings and their owners.

Descendants of British PoWs visit Lamsdorf prison museum

Over 80 family members of British World War II prisoners of war who spent time in the Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf German Army prisoner of war camp in present-day Łambinowice, southwestern Poland, visited the site on Tuesday.

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