Today Toruń Daily Photo and Muzeum Historyczno-Wojskowe Toruń were contacted by Rosalind and John Ridout. Rosalind's father was Prvt. Leonard Green who was a POW at Stalag XX-A in Toruń and managed to escape to freedom via Gydnia and Sweden. Rosalind was in Toruń for one day only to retrace her father's footsteps. TORUŃ DAILY PHOTO joined her to record this historical moment. Over the next few days join us as we follow Rosalind's father's footsteps...and return to Stalag XX-A.
Following Leonard Green's Footsteps: Piotr Olecki (Muzeum Historyczno-Wojskowe), Leon Wosik who as a boy used to play with the British POWs at Stalag XX-A, Rosalind Ridout (daughter of Prvt. Leonard Green) and Glenn Standish (Toruń Daily Photo)
The book "Escape Route Green" which retells Leonard Green's amazing story
John Ridout (husband of Rosalind) in the centre
Rosalind walks in a pensive mood along the military ramp where over 70 years before - her father had first set foot on Polish soil (albeit in Nazi Germany)
Part 1: Following Escape Route Green
After a short visit at Muzeum Historyczno-Wojskowe we hopped in a car together with Piotr Olecki (the museum's founder) and drove off following the footsteps of Prvt. Leonard Green. Sitting next to me, his daughter Rosalind clutched her father's novel "Escape Route Green" and told me anecdotes about her father. Our first port of call was the military ramp, which would have been Leonard's first sight of Polish soil before being sent off to Stalag XX-A.
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