On October 23, for the 14th time, the media and educational campaign “Light a candle of remembrance” was organised. Its purpose is to commemorate the victims of the German occupation, murdered in the first months of the Second World War as part of Operation Tannenberg. The action is carried out in the regions of Wielkopolska, Pomerania, Silesia, Łódzka and Kujawy. The annual summary of the campaign takes place during a concert organized at the Musical Theater in Poznań.

Poznań Musical Theater spokeswoman Sonia Kobylańska-Jóźwik announced that on Sunday, as part of the All Souls concert, at 17, the play “Irena” will be staged, telling the story of Irena Sendler who helped Jews during the German occupation.

“After the performance, guests of the theater usually light candles under the plaque commemorating the victims of the Gestapo, whose office during the war was located in the theater building” – emphasized Jóźwik.

The seat of the Musical Theater in Poznań is in the building of the Soldier’s House. The building was handed over to the army on March 19, 1939, the name day of Józef Piłsudski. At this time, the last parade of the Polish army before the outbreak of World War II took place in Poznań. After the outbreak of the war and the establishment of secret state police offices in the territories incorporated into the Third Reich, the Gestapo office began to work in the building. The arrested Poles were interrogated there, then placed in Fort VII, then in the Żabikowo camp, opened in 1943.

The so-called home prison. In their cells, the handcuffed prisoners were kept on the floor, from where they were summoned to multiple tortured interrogations.

Currently there is a plaque on the building: “This house in 1939-1945 was the headquarters of the Gestapo. Poles remember it as a place of Nazi crimes – mass arrests, torture, martyrdom, tragedy and death of thousands of inhabitants of the so-called +Land of Warta+” .

The “Light a candle of memory” campaign is a joint project of the national education branches of the Institute of National Remembrance in Poznań, Gdańsk, Katowice, Łódź, Bydgoszcz, Radio Poznań and the regional broadcasters of Polish Radio . The action takes place under the honorary patronage of the Marshal of Greater Poland Voivodeship. Media sponsorship is the historia.pl site.

The initiator of the action “Light a candle of memory” was Anna Gruszecka, then a journalist from Radio Mercury in Poznań.

Operation “Tannenberg” is the code name for the first large-scale extermination operation carried out by the Germans during World War II. Its objective was to physically eliminate the leaders of the Polish leadership, most of whom were registered before the war on the so-called ban lists. By the end of 1939, in the territory of the Second Polish Republic, the Germans had murdered about 55,000 people. Polish. In the areas incorporated into the Third Reich, 40,000 people died. people.

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