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Each day the POW editors pinned a new issue to it on the Mess Hall bulletin board. You can see the multiple pin holes here. U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center, Carlisle PA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/1ba982f3-9678-426c-a950-6f158cbc3ee5/IMG_2902.binding.jpeg Essays & Media - D-Day at Oflag 64 - Make it stand out One of the bound volumes of The Daily Bulletin that I found at the U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center in Carlisle, PA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/14c15eac-d5eb-4232-a257-8c70f50883b1/1944.06.06.POW+Newssheet.IMG_2875+crop.jpeg Essays & Media - D-Day at Oflag 64 - Make it stand out The Daily Bulletin on the afternoon of June 6, 1944. U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/1dad666e-3709-451c-a3f3-2abb463c2ae8/8.Allen.Bolten.Berlin+Copyright.jpg Essays & Media - D-Day at Oflag 64 - Make it stand out My father and Larry Allen, reunited in the late fall 1945 in Berlin. Allen was en route to his AP assignment in Warsaw. My dad was serving with the Office of Military Government for Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/f23cb623-ea21-42a4-a09d-df4f87ec461d/1944.06.06.DB.am.jpg Essays & Media - D-Day at Oflag 64 - Make it stand out The morning issue of The Oflag Daily Bulletin, June 6, 1944. “The Anniversary Program…is combat-loaded with games, music, awards…But no women—in keeping with [a] now year-long tradition.” U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center, Carlisle, PA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/2d73ddf5-ca05-4f2d-b026-771dd472b0a9/IMG_2877+copyright+crop.jpg Essays & Media - D-Day at Oflag 64 - Make it stand out Late afternoon edition of The Oflag Daily Bulletin, June 6, 1944. U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/1f77b139-e36c-419a-8673-51e55177618b/Orchestra.Logo.pdf.jpg Essays & Media - D-Day at Oflag 64 - Make it stand out The Oflag 64 Swing Band, 1943-1945. Instruments donated by the YMCA. The POWs crafted the bowties from the cardboard of their Red Cross parcels. Polish-American Foundation for the Commemoration of POW Camps in Szubin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/d9e1e957-e549-4001-af21-a4731af2d582/1944.01.Daily+Bulletin+Staff.Picture1.jpg Essays & Media - D-Day at Oflag 64 - Make it stand out The staff of The Oflag 64 Daily Bulletin newssheet. My dad is front row, far right. Pulitzer Prize and AP war correspondent Larry Allen is behind him. 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Photo 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/887a4eb1-66da-4bb9-a40a-50403e0f151a/2021.Copy+of+TinStore.2023.IMG_9281.JPG Museum With contributions from the Friends of Oflag 64, the Foundation renovated the Tin Store in 2021 to house a museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/3c94970e-5abf-4ed9-b666-c9d31400f009/2023.Copy+of+Tin+Store+Mock+Up+with+Board+and+Designers.IMG_6274.jpeg Museum Working with historian Dr. Jan Daniluk, designer Małgorzata Gliwińska-Radwańska, and fabricator Littera in Gdańsk, we worked out the layout and design of the exhibit space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/46f3c181-7181-4a84-9ddb-a96e17b2464d/3.2019.Signed+and+Sealed+copy.jpg Museum With the Foundation's founder Cindy Sharpe Burgess, a fellow POW descendent, and Mariusz Winiecki, Foundation President, in Warsaw, at the establishment of the Foundation. 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/8b458964-0ed5-4548-8f46-40cf7ee7f20a/2023.Copy+of+TinStore.EXHIBITION+IN+SZUBIN+0104+Begin+copy.jpg Museum Rendering of the Tin Store Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/ab276a97-14d8-4afb-a58d-68fe5f7a913b/2023.Copy+of+TinStore.EXHIBITION+IN+SZUBIN+0106+Evac+copy.jpg Museum Rendering of the Tin Store Museum https://www.susannaboltenconnaughton.com/album daily 0.75 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/41b9b3ab-0ef5-45e1-a19f-5eeb6b0213fa/1944.07.03.Eda243+3crop.png Album Two Journeys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/bd13aee0-b891-4cfc-a739-8d63fc714c3c/1943.01.26.Folks.full-1.png Album Two Journeys Letter from my father to his family, writtten "Somewhere in North Africa." He says, "I am fine and everything is alright." They did not hear from him again for 3 months. 26 January 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/e8b6dabd-350d-4178-a906-9b5dec3f068f/1943.03.08.Telegram+MIA.035+copy.jpg Album Two Journeys Telegram delivered to my grandparents announcing that my father is missing in action. My grandmother had a stroke that night. 8 March 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/2fd8b9d3-ec13-490c-ab65-8e6c0282787c/1943.06.Lagergeld.50.Connaughton+copy.jpg Album Two Journeys The Germans gave the POWs "lagergeld," a currency they could spend in the camp canteen--which usually had nothing to sell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/827cf4b3-50e3-426f-a9fd-cc68e311f540/1943.06.MailDataBook+3.png Album Two Journeys My father's "Mail Data Book," he used to keep track of every letter and package he received, and every letter and postcard he sent. 1943-1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/d514ebdc-81bd-4c24-95cc-97be17e380ff/1943.06.ReturntoSender+copy.jpg Album Two Journeys Many of the letters sent to my father never reached him. They were in the trunk, unopened, stamped "Return to Sender." I slit them open 70+ years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/df80d874-21ec-40de-944a-39a05a8dc6dc/1943.07.BlueBook.1945.01001+13.png Album Two Journeys My father used this blue book to study Russian, most likely tutored by the Soviet POWs in secret. He also used it to record the evacuation of Oflag 64 and the "liberation" by the Red Army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/245e26c0-eb2e-4b85-a946-6c01105f74a7/1943.11.Glee+Club+Brother+Orchid.Picture1.jpg Album Two Journeys The Oflag 64 Glee Club in their "Little Theater" barracks. My father (far right) sang tenor. 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/30c3479b-1271-4116-a9ba-a3187200a015/1943.Jerry.JB.1329+copy.jpg Album Two Journeys My Uncle Jerry was 8-years old (pictured here) when his brother (my dad) became a POW. He is the only surviving letter writer from the trunk's collection of correspondence. (see photo below) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/d9e1e957-e549-4001-af21-a4731af2d582/1944.01.Daily+Bulletin+Staff.Picture1.jpg Album Two Journeys With Pulitzer Prize war correspondent Larry Allen (back row, right) and the others who worked on the POW newssheet, The Daily Bulletin. My dad translated the German-supplied news--and interpreted the propaganda. January 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/22f8ace1-4f76-4bbf-a2cc-3e098b56e8b0/1944.02.14.DraftLetter+Capture+Anniv.jpg Album Two Journeys Draft of a letter to his girlfriend around the one year anniversary of his capture, "I considered my future on this earth to be extremely uncertain." 14 February 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/2d7da9c1-2393-488e-b436-6d6daf831026/1944.08.16.Incident+Arraignment.Picture1.jpg Album Two Journeys The Germans put my father and 3 other POWs on trial for disobeying a guard's order during a visit to Poznan. As interpreter, my dad argued that the order was a violation of the Geneva Convention.16 August 1944. The trial was held in Gniezno in October 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/f0f6b630-7832-4786-90ba-32cff2fd0e3b/1944.12.13.Boned+Turkey+Label+2.png Album Two Journeys My dad kept one Red Cross food label--the canned turkey. "The best thing I've ever tasted," he wrote home. 13 December 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/7d328353-674d-4e3a-a716-9bd5bfa9c16f/1945.01.20.JournalEntry.01001+1.png Album Two Journeys First entry in the blue book chronicling the evacuation from Oflag 64 and his time with the Red Army. January-May 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/dc29ea16-5626-4212-b914-e2bb52259379/1945.01.25.KOTIKOW+copy+2.jpg Album Two Journeys Senior American POW Officers, with my father as interpreter, meeting with a Soviet General to plan their "liberation." Soviets then held them for a month at a horrific refugee camp. January 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/19940e5f-46c9-4cda-9611-6142522ce1c9/1945.02.01.Levy.Annette171+copy_Page_1.jpg Album Two Journeys Valentine sent to my father by his girlfriend in New York. It never reached him. February 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/6bd9ede7-5d90-447e-9f6b-670089e6b6ab/1945.02.28.ZZ1OF2+copy.jpg Album Two Journeys Zosia, a woman my father got to know in Rembertow, inscribed the back of this photo "to my dearest friend from a faraway country." February 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/dbbaaf29-6cec-4a0c-9fb8-1058d9a9d1ec/1945.03.Odesa.Picture1.jpg Album Two Journeys Magazine photo of Allied POWs marching to merchant marine ship in Odesa. My dad is among them somewhere. March 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/07325043-be58-4d76-a2d6-928b629bbf19/1945.08.Reichstag.Full-1.png Album Two Journeys He requested to be sent to Berlin to rebuild Germany. On the back of this photo he wrote, "In front of the Reichstag (or what's left of it) with a group of Russian soldiers. August 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/4d496ef6-7d4d-4ee3-a2ec-5a4e1a964acc/1999.Trunk.IMG_4152+copy.jpeg Album Two Journeys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/c7154d90-2994-407a-8b1d-46fde1c0ca3a/2015.01.Szubin.BarbedWire.555.jpg Album Two Journeys The camp's barbed wire is still part of the landscape. This would have been my father's view too. 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/e5792273-a368-4b99-8cf8-78ebee812b78/2015.01.Szubin.Window+SBC.JPG Album Two Journeys My first visit to Oflag 64, Szubin, January 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/af8c0542-da75-4580-a18b-fc96d8c9f51c/2015.Estelle.DSCF3763+copy+2.jpeg Album Two Journeys With Estelle Laughlin, author and Holocaust survivor, enroute to Krakow, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/f787065c-2964-44ab-b4f8-5f40fab332d0/2015.Uncle+Jerry+Me+Aunt+Maryann+copy.JPG Album Two Journeys One of many wonderful conversations with my Uncle Jerry (and Aunt Mary Ann) about the letters Jerry wrote 75+ years ago that are in the trunk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/f2bd4dbc-73d8-4455-9348-c9867ae54f93/2017.1.Poznan.P1000167.jpeg Album Two Journeys The Poznan train station where my dad, as POW interpreter, argued with a German guard who was not following the rules of the Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of POW officers. Photo 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/960327e5-a05e-417c-89bf-c35675231518/2017.1a.Poznan.2019.IMG_5192.jpeg Album Two Journeys In 1939, the occupying Germans stripped this grand Poznan synagogue and turned it into an indoor swimming pool. It still says "swimming pool" above the windows. Photo 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/90150b16-7594-47ec-aa86-c5cfc6250e21/2017.2.Gniezno.P1000264.jpeg Album Two Journeys In 2017, in the town of Gniezno, Mariusz Winiecki helped me visit the monastery where the occupying Germans held my father and the other defendants in 1944 during the harrowing night before their German court-martial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/882efb68-96cc-445e-b18c-543f14250c65/2017.2.Gniezno.P1000320.jpeg Album Two Journeys The courthouse in which the Germans court-martialed my father and the other POW defendants in October 1944. Photo 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/efde6634-e26d-4c96-8ae6-d6d9a1e1dcd7/2017.09.Szubin.Kriegy+Kids+in+front+of+barracks+w+Mariusz.IMG_3239+2.JPG Album Two Journeys In 2017, in Szubin, with other POW descendants and Szubinite and expert Mariusz Winiecki at Oflag 64. Two years later our group led by Cindy Sharpe Burgess (above) founded a U.S. 501c3 and a Polish-American foundation to build a museum in an original POW building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/c84d13a6-8c84-4ba5-8a6f-08aef1f86ae6/2018.10.POW+Roggen.Ted.2018.10.16.IMG_9315+copy.jpg Album Two Journeys In 2018, I had the pleasure and honor to interview Lt. Ted Roggen, a former Oflag 64 POW. He was 101 and we talked for 4 hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/2e310c20-f7a2-4be3-8803-a349d43eddb7/2018.10.POW+Waful.Don.2018.10.19.IMG_9341+copy.jpg Album Two Journeys In 2018, with Lt. Don Waful, age 102, a former Oflag 64 POW and fellow member of the Oflag 64 Glee Club with my father. "We were scared to death every time your father left the camp for one of his interpreting trips." "Why?"I asked. "Because he was Jewish." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/9b47787b-42f6-4803-a77d-ea46ccbf3de5/2018.11.Poznan+Carol+Me+Poznan+Museum+of+Arms.IMG_5238.JPG Album Two Journeys My sweet friend Karol, who shared his love of Paw Patrol with me at the Poznan Museum of Armaments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/ba3997a8-08f6-437c-8ec8-d4f2dcbb1855/2018.11.Poznan+Jeep+with+Kryztof.IMG_0273.jpeg Album Two Journeys Poznan Museum of Armaments curator, Kryzysztof Janowiak, demonstrates the WWII Dodge WC52. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/bfa09c05-8ae8-47e9-94f9-6d7e7c6e780c/2018.11.Poznan+Milosz+Mariusz+Me+Poznan+Museum+of+Arms.IMG_5239.JPG Album Two Journeys Curator Miłosz Stroński explains the WWII exhibits to Mariusz and me at the Poznan Arms Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/4c13c2b3-769f-4dfb-b0f2-e98a0620264e/Kasia+Me+Warsaw+2015.IMG_3375.JPG Album Two Journeys With Kasia Kacprzak, Warsaw's indomitable genealogical researcher who helped uncover the details of my father's journey with the Soviets and the Poles who befriended him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/6a0908e5-7cea-4dc2-b011-2063b7e3ecc7/2018.11.Rembertow+Basement.IMG_20181128_103438.jpg Album Two Journeys Based on the descriptions I found, Kasia tracked down one of the locations where my father and other POWs bunked during their 4-week stay at the Soviet/NKVD refugee camp in Rembertow. Photo 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/20c632cb-6402-4bae-b101-33190409851e/2018.11.Rembertow.IMG_20181128_105327.jpg Album Two Journeys Outside of the basement bunker in Rembertow. Photo 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/c1fdec87-0eda-4de0-8325-ccc8db80a6ec/2023.Szubin1.WhiteHouse.IMG_6140.jpeg Album Two Journeys The renovated "White House" that once held the POWs is now used for the Szubin town offices. Photo 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/117e8d53-27ca-4ff8-9282-c0338108593b/2023.Szubin3.White+House.IMG_6144.jpeg Album Two Journeys What was once a POW dormitory, has been renovated. My dad would be glad to know this room is now used for town council meetings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/5c240af1-b367-42ee-9b68-ba88649614d3/2023.Szubin4.White+House.IMG_6145.jpeg Album Two Journeys Confetti from a wedding outside the building that was once used to house the Oflag 64 prisoners. How nice that the building is now used for happier purposes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/450104cf-6fce-4fed-8b65-29aa4fbb7aa6/2023.Szubin5.Dinner+w+Jimmy+IMG_6070.jpeg Album Two Journeys In 2023, I got to take my husband to Szubin. Here we are with Mariusz's generous and hospitable family. My father and his trunk has helped to create a new community of friends to share this history. https://www.susannaboltenconnaughton.com/about daily 0.75 2024-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672d2ad1647fc730c607f923/54a2a31e-c151-45bb-8eaf-241cc5fead97/Susanna_Connaughton_24E3085_Web.jpg