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30 Oct 25

Posted by at 16:22 in Memory, Stalag VIII A

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Monday, 27 October 2025, the Meetingpoint organised another online meeting with descendants of former French and Belgian prisoners of war at Stalag VIII A, which brought together 22 people on Zoom. Christophe Demullier, whose father Paul Demullier...

01 Nov 23

Posted by at 11:49 in Memory, Stalag VIII A

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 1st of November is a day to commemorate the late. In Poland it is a very important day in the canon of Christian holidays. On  November 1st, family members gather at the graves of their passed loved...

26 Oct 23

Posted by at 11:10 in Education, Memory, Stalag VIII A

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15332" img_size="900x400" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text] The Multimedia Guide is still available at the European Centre Remembrance, Education, Culture, at Meetingpoint and other selected places. But you can also access it online. Free of charge. How does the audio guide work? To activate...

24 Oct 23

Posted by at 15:40 in European Centre of Education and Culture, Meetingpoint, Stalag VIII A

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Under the title "Work in the excavation field", Marcel Beyer deals with Stalag VIII A in the KULTURSTIFTER and describes the work of the Foundation Remembrance, Education, Culture and the Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen. In a stirring article, Marcel...

02 Feb 23

Posted by at 14:06 in Stalag VIII A

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Teachers, Dear Students, Dear Readers, This publication “The Prisoner of War Camp Stalag VIII A Görlitz. Didactic Guide for Historical-Political Educational Work at the Stalag VIII A Memorial Site” is intended, as the title suggests,...

06 Jun 22

Posted by at 23:00 in Stalag VIII A

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ladies and Gentlemen, we would like to inform all those interested in the fate of the POWs, soldiers of the Second World War, that under the aegis of the Central Museum of POW Camps, based in Lambinowice, the "POW...

31 May 22

Posted by at 23:00 in Music, Stalag VIII A

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Tuesday, May 31, we were visited in Görlitz-Zgorzelec by Juan Muñoz, a young composer from Colombia who is currently studying at the University of Music in Dresden. Our partner orchestra, Sinfonietta Dresden, has commissioned him to write...

07 May 22

Posted by at 22:00 in Memory, Stalag VIII A

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On May 7, 2022, in front of the monument to the prisoners of war of Stalag VIIIA, a commemoration ceremony was held, organized by the Foundation Remembrance, Education, Culture and Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen e.V. on the occasion of...

28 May 21

Posted by at 13:11 in Culture, European Centre of Education and Culture, POW, Stalag VIII A

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Saving a cultural monument for the European Memorial Site Stalag VIII A   Barrack listed as a historical monument becomes modern educational site. A barrack from WW II to receive a new location in the Memorial Site of the Stalag VIII...