Collection from World War II

The Museum owns a rich collection of relics connected with Polish Armed Forces in the West e.g.: uniforms, equipment - air binoculars, water bottle, backpack, orders of various formation, personal things - silver cigarette-case owned by Władyslaw Sikorski given later on to aid-de-camp Czasław Glówczyński, archive publication of Polish Camp Priesthood in the Middle-East and the Division of Culture and Press of the 2. Polish Corp.
The Museum owns several notices and propaganda posters issued by the German Occupier. The conspiracy activity are documented by the archive of Home Army and The Women Military Service and leaflets from the Directorship of the Management of the Civil Contest.
The subject matter concerning German concentration camps and oflags is presented: in the collection of correspondence from prisoners from all camps located in Poland and Germany, camp dungarees, shoes - clogs, camp numbers, camp coupons or products made in the camp Ravensbruck.
The relics connected with the January Uprising are mainly weapons, radios, first aid kit, military arm bands. We do also have an uprising poster of 1 August 1944 with the state emblem and a note: Let live the Government of the Republic of Poland/ Reverence of the brave Home Army Also important is the response of a Government Delegate and German and Soviet leaflets.



Jadwiga Tereszczenko, Night transport, 1941, drawing


Camp blouseof Teresa Matyska from Auschwitz-Birkenau


Helmet of a Warsaw uprising insurgent


Radio with headphones used by the General Anton Chruścicie, PS. Monter, 1944


Military uniform from the Colonel Tadeusz Anders from Word War II with orders of Polish Armed Forces in the West


Wojciech Myer, Polish air force, 1944, postert



Stanisław Lipiński, Warsaw / 1939 - 1944, poster


Stanisław Westwalewicz, M. Cassino, 1946, poster

Statuette "Invincible" by Włodzimierz Fruczek, made fro 60th anniversary of January Uprising, 2004