by Summer Obrien | Apr 18, 2024 | Blog
Forgotten Friday – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising This week in our Forgotten Friday, we are focusing on The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. After the Grossaktion Warsaw of summer 1942, in which more than a quarter of a million Jews were deported from the ghetto to...
by Summer Obrien | Apr 3, 2024 | News
Forgotten Friday – Stalag XXI-D Artefacts! It’s #ForgottenFriday! Today, we are looking at some of the fantastic donations we received at the museum, which mention a POW camp named Stalag XXI-D. Some of the donated items include original documents belonging to...
by Summer Obrien | Mar 20, 2024 | News
Forgotten Friday – Thankful Villages By Trish Wade From 1914 to 1918 communities across the world suffered atrocious losses due to their young men leaving home to fight in the First World War. Over 700,000 British subjects alone died in this conflict. ...
by Summer Obrien | Mar 13, 2024 | News
Forgotten Friday – The Occupation of Czechoslovakia. On 15th March, 1939, Nazi Germany, violated the Munich Agreement of 1938 and occupied the remaining Czechoslovakia. This event, known as the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, led to the establishment of the...
by Summer Obrien | Mar 7, 2024 | Blog
Forgotten Friday – Women at War It’s Friday, which means it’s #ForgottenFriday! Today we are celebrating the courageous women who did their part in WWII. With thousands of men away serving in the armed forces throughout the Second World War. Women in...
