Mass. the victims will be celebrated on Friday morning at the Museum, which operates in Stutthof. The service, which is chaired by the Bishop of Elblag Jacek Jezierski, will take place next to the building of the former crematorium.
At noon adjacent to the monument commemorating the victims of the camp will begin the ceremony with the participation of representatives of local and regional authorities. Their most important part of the appeal will be killed and the salvo of honor performed by Kompania Representative of the Polish Navy. This part of the celebration will end lighting candles and laying flowers at the monument.
Then will open the exhibition “Called Earth “presenting the results of this year’s exploration and archaeological sites, which were carried out at the former camp (outside the Museum) in cooperation with the Pomorskie voivodship conservator.
as explained spokesman Marcin Tyminski conservator, at the exhibition will be presented the most interesting, undergo initial conservation work items found during work – both those that belonged to the prisoners, as well as those related to camp crew.
In the first group was even a collection of spoons and other utensils, as well as items that prisoners performed independently from waste aluminum. Also encountered a number of small metal plates on which were placed the prison numbers. As explained Tyminski, museum staff were able to identify some of the prisoners, which included tablets.
special thing, on which it was discovered during work is original pięciomarkowa coin from the Lodz ghetto. – This is a very rare find – said Tyminski, adding that he found too small – probably made by one of the prisoners – a medallion with subtitles in Yiddish.
among the findings, which belonged to the camp of the crew, the exhibition will be shown, among others, items used by her tableware.
The exhibition will complement or eight boards, through which visitors will be able to learn more both on the camp and conducted on its former site of archaeological work and found objects.
the exhibition will be decorated in the main building Stutthof Museum, which housed a former camp commandant. The exhibition will be open until the end of September.
The camp Stutthof status of a German concentration camp acquired in January 1942. but actually it was founded in the time of the outbreak of world war II. On 2 September 1939. Camp is situated close to the village, which today bears the name of Sztutowo and which before World War II was part of the Free City of Danzig, they came first inmates. It was about 150 people selected from among those arrested on September 1 in Gdansk Poles and local Jews.
In the beginning the camp was designed primarily for Poles from Pomerania. Since 1942. The Germans started to carry his Polish citizens from other regions and groups of people of other nationalities. Over time, the small camp Stutthof has grown to more than 120 hectares, also had numerous sub-camps. KL Stutthof went a total of about 110 thousand. prisoners. The number of victims of the camp is estimated at about 65 thousand., Of which approx. 28 thousand. were people of Jewish origin.
In 1962. the efforts of former prisoners created the Museum Stutthof. The facility operates on part of the former camp, numbering approx. 20 hectares, where some of the buildings have been preserved so. Old Camp, including the gas chamber, the commandant of the garages, space vegetable gardens and greenhouses. Museum also includes part of the area called. New Camp and Camp Jewish.
less than a year before management facility in cooperation with the Regional Office for the Protection of Monuments in Gdansk , the Laboratory of Archaeological “Signum” test tube and the Foundation launched a comprehensive, planned for three years study about 100 hectares of the former camp grounds remaining outside the museum.
(BB)
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