On 19 September 2014, Director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk Prof. dr hab. Paweł Machcewicz and Director of the National Museum in Szczecin Lech Karwowski, opened the temporary exhibition “So it is war then…! The Experiences of civilians in 1939”. The exhibition had been prepared by the Museum of the Second World War and it is organised in the National Museum in Szczecin. The exhibition presents the experiences of civilians during military action in September and October of 1939 and in the first period of German and Soviet occupation until the end of 1939.