"How beautiful Poland must be".

The exhibition is available from May 1 to October 30, 2009.
 
The exhibition was officially opened on May 1, 2009 by Bishop Antoni Dydycz, Ordinary of the Diocese of Drohiczyn. The event was also attended by bishops from Poland and Lithuania, who were in Licheń for a working meeting at the time, as well as Father Pawel Naumowicz, Superior of the Polish Province of the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The exhibition was inspired by the Chronicle of Class 3A of the Nicolaus Copernicus Grammar School in Bottisham (England), entitled "Our Experiences". The notes, kept between 1952 and 1956 by the children of Polish wartime emigrants - contain their memories and biographies.

The students, born between 1934 and 1939, came from the eastern areas of the former Republic of Poland. Deported from their homeland, they went through a dramatic journey through Siberia, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, India and Africa, eventually ending up in England. Many of their relatives did not survive this wandering.

The exhibition was to show World War II through the eyes of a child - through personal memories, often written down years later with deep emotion and pain. It was meant to make visitors realize that the end of the war did not mean freedom and return home for everyone.
The Polish Nicolaus Copernicus Grammar School in Bottisham, established in 1946 in cooperation with the British Ministry of Education, was intended to help Polish children find their way in the new reality - by learning the language, equalizing their education and preparing them for life in England.

The exhibition was prepared with education in mind. The boards show, among other things, what the Soviet deportations were, the fate of the children rescued thanks to the Anders Army and what their long road to freedom was like.