Wooden panel from a prisoner of war hut recovered from the area that was German prisoner of war camp for Allied soldiers Stalag 344 in the village of Lamsdorf in Silesia, Southwestern Poland.
This is a wooden panel from a prisoner of war hut either a floor or wall panel.The wood is still very solid and not braking up or falling apart it has been very well cleaned perfect for display or any collection and a nice size at 10 inches by 4 inches wide .The wooden panel was recovered from German prisoner of war camp for Allied soldiers Stalag 344 in the village of Lamsdorf in Silesia, Southwestern Poland.The light come with 2xA5 laminated information cards with pictures.
The camp used in World War 1 and closed after the war ended It was reopened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Later during the war, approximately 100,000 prisoners from 16 different Allied nations including Great Britain, France, Russia, and the USA all passed through this camp. In 1941 a separate camp, stalag 344-F was set up close by to house the Soviet Prisoners. In 1943, the Lamsdorf camp was split up, and many of the prisoners (and Arbeitskommando) were transferred to two new base camps stalag-C Sagan and stalag-D Teschen. The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344.The Soviet Army reached the camp on 17 March 1945.
By 1943, the famous camp known for the Great Escape for Allied flight personnel in Sagan – stalag Luft 3 - had become so overcrowded that about 1,000, mostly non-commissioned flight personnel, were transferred to Lamsdorf. A part of Stalag VIII-B was separated by building new barbed-wire fences, designated Stalag Luft VIII-B. Thus, a camp within a camp was created. However, all food was provided from kitchens operated by army personnel in the camp proper.
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