The Worcation project, organized by Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen e.V. in cooperation with the Memory Education Culture Foundation, ended last week with a ceremony on Friday, August 11, 2023 The closing ceremony was opened by Meetingpoint manager Alexandra Grochowski, who welcomed guests and participants from Ukraine, Poland, Italy and Germany. Present at the ceremony were Saxon […]

The Memory, Education, Culture Foundation with the pursuit of its statutory activities in commemorating Stalag VIII A Görlitz – the former camp of World War II prisoner – is appealing to all interested individuals, institutions, and business representatives for financial support to realise a European Memorial Park on the site of the former camp. All […]

On Wednesday 14th September, 2022, Didier Peyrard and his wife visited us to talk about his father, who was a prisoner of war in Stalag VIII A in 1940/41. Marcel Peyrard was a French prisoner of war who was captured by the Nazis in 1940 and sent to the POW camp in Görlitz. In 1941, […]