"Girls of Those Years" Temporary Exhibition

We invite to the opening of the exhibition "Girls of Those Years" on Tuesday, June 7th 2022, at 12.00, noon. The exposition is dedicated to women soldiers of the Home Army who lived in West Pomerania after the war.

The exhibition will be available until August 31st 2022 at the conference hall/space of dialogue of the National Museum in Szczecin – the Dialogue Centre Upheavals. 

The exposition was arranged by the Szczecin branch of the World Association of Home Army Soldiers. This is another important element in commemorating the 80th anniversary of the transformation of the Union of Armed Struggle into the Home Army, which during the war was the largest underground army in the world, fighting against the German and Soviet occupiers. The Viewers will be able to see 48 archival photographs of young women who during World War II acted as messengers and nurses and fought in the Borderlands or in the Warsaw Uprising. After 1945, various fates made them settle in the Western Territories, which fell to Poland by the decision of the Allies. Some of them persecuted for many years, others hiding their identity for a long time, decided to stay in their new little homeland forever.

During the vernissage, the originator of the exhibition, Major of the Home Army Danuta Szyksznian-Ossowska, pseudonym "Sarenka", who will be 97 years old on June 7th, will be honoured.

The preparation of the ceremony by the NMS-DCU was possible on account of the financial support of the West-Pomeranian Voivodeship Marshal's Office. Organizational support was provided by the 14th West Pomeranian Territorial Defense Brigade.

 

Kobiety AK