Władysław Golus Regional Museum in Ostrzeszów
regional museum in Poland
Władysław Golus Regional Museum (Polish: Muzeum Regionalne im. Władysława Golusa) is a museum in Ostrzeszów, Poland. Located at the local town hall, it contains historical, archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic and art collections, including an exhibition devoted to the history of Norwegian World War II prisoners of war once interned in the Oflag XXI-C POW camp in Ostrzeszów in German-occupied Poland.
Other chief collections include the works of painter Antoni Serbeński and artifacts from the Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919.
Exhibition devoted to Norwegian POWs from World War II
Beginnings
In 1982, Eyvind Grundt from Moss, Norway, was sent to Poland on a mission for the Norwegian Red Cross. After completing his work, he began a search for the town where his father had spent two years as a Prisoner of War (POW) during World War II. It was a difficult task, since he only knew the German name of the town, Schildberg.
After many inquiries, Grundt found that Schildberg was a small Polish city of Ostrzeszów. In Ostrzeszów, by chance, he made contact with Lechoslaw Nowakowski, a language professor at the local college. Nowakowski had a good knowledge of the history of the town and shared Grundt's interest in the fate of the 1,150 Norwegian POWs once interned there at Stalag XXI-A.
They discovered that Grundt’s father had been interned in the building that now houses the town’s largest technical school. In the cellar of the school, several Norwegian artifacts were discovered, including a dented tin plate engraved “Kaptein Vagn Enger”.
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