Day of Kobarid Museum

Dear visitors,

On Saturday, 26. October 2024 at 15.00 you are kindly invited to our traditional event Day of Kobarid Museum. After the cultural programme, which will be enriched by members of Jazz Punt Big Band,  there will be an inauguration of the new temporary exhibition, entitled I WAS A PRISONER OF WAR!

The author, Željko Cimprič, wrote this about the exhibition: The exhibition offers fragments of long stories by eighteen POWs, two of whom spent many years of captivity far in the East. The rest of them experienced it in Europe, in Serbian, Austro-Hungarian, German and Italian POW (concentration) camps or at work in the hinterland. Medieval castles, abandoned fortresses, cabins in new camps ... Krasnoyarsk, Tashkent, railway construction site in Murmansk, Rastatt, castle at Azzano, Celle lager, San Giusto in Trieste, Cassino, ... Yes. Also the island of Asinara and Mauthausen. Infamous places!
In the Hague Convention of 1907, the international community determined the rules for managing POWs, but the facts testify that they mainly remained just on paper. They could not foresee the Great War which soon followed.

Kindly invited to commemorate the 34th anniversary of Kobarid Museum with us!