From Memory to Museum: The Tin Store Szubin POWs Museum
Susanna Bolten Connaughton Susanna Bolten Connaughton

From Memory to Museum: The Tin Store Szubin POWs Museum

My article on the upcoming opening of this gem of a museum in Poland—ten years in the making, spanning generations and continents. I hope we have honored the legacy of these WWII POWs, a story I’ve had the privilege to help tell.

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D-Day at Oflag 64
Emily Sandstrom Emily Sandstrom

D-Day at Oflag 64

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, millions of Americans gathered around their radios, glued to the announcers’ updates of the Allied invasion of Normandy. My father was also gathered with an excited group around a radio—a secret one, at Oflag 64, a POW camp in the rural town of Szubin, in German-occupied Poland.

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Descendant Discoveries
Susanna Bolten Connaughton Susanna Bolten Connaughton

Descendant Discoveries

Coming soon…Panel discussion from the 1st International Congress on Prisoners of War Memorial Sites: Heritage and Strategies for the Future, 15 November 2024

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