Landeck, Land Tyrol on Inn River; (French zone); UNRRA team 148; Hungarians, some Ukrainian documentation at Shevchenko Scientific Society Library

City archive: Stadtarchiv
Badgasse 2
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Tel+43(512)587380
Fax+43(512)5873808
E-mail: stadtarchiv@magibk.at

Photo submitted by Klaus Fohringer

Leibnitz - in Muir valley (in Südsteiermark or Southern Styria to the border Ex-jugoslawien), (British zone), Jews

City office: Stadtamt Leibnitz
A 8430 Leibnitz,
Hauptplatz 24
Tel: 0043 3452 82423-0
Email: stadtarchiv@magibk.at gde@leibnitz.steiermark.at
(DP camp Wagna and a other place called Frauenberg were in near Leibnitz. Address supplied by Herta.)

From USHMM: Jewish website: "A DP camp in the Graz/Steiermark district, in the British occupied zone of Austria. The camp consisted of typical wooden barracks, which, in October 1945, housed about 2200 persons, 600 of whom were Polish Jews."

Leoben, Children's center, Land Steiermark on Muir River, (British zone), 150 children

town hall photo

City archives: Stadtarchiv Leoben
Kirchgasse 6
8700 Leoben

Lexenfeld, Land Salzburg (US zone) See Salzburg archives.

City archives in Salzburg: http://www.stadt-salzburg.at/internet/themen/bildung_forschung/t2_89747/p2_89934.htm

3/3/05
Saw your website while trying to find out more information regarding a DP camp in Salzburg, Austria. Towards the end of the war, my grandparents and their three children (one being my father) went from Prague back to Bratislava where they lived. They eventually had to leave, we believe, because of the Benes Decrees and wound up in the Lexenfeld DP camp. My one aunt recalls that the camp was located just outside of Salzburg, but was within walking distance to town. She also recalls it was basically farm land, but was on the grounds of a Convent and that there was a church also on the grounds. Hope this information helps. Joseph L. Zollner

8/2/07 Hi Olga,
My mother, Natalie Kulish, from the Ukraine, resided in the Lexenfeld Camp for several years during WWII then performed/entertained, in a theater called Rainbow Theater or Playhouse for another few years. She then immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Is there any web-sites that you know that we can visit for more information about the camp, survivors, photos, etc. If anyone know more about this camp, I look forward to hearing from you. Email me at: bobbimackellar@yahoo.ca Best regards, R.P. (Bobbi) Mackellar, Mississauga ON Canada<

 

Archives: Murdorf-Liechtenstein (Judenburg)
Adresse: Stadtgemeinde (Municipality) Judenburg, Hauptplatz,
A 8570 Judenburg
Tel: 0043 3572 83141-0
Fax: 0043 3572 83141-222
Email: toffice@judenburg.at
Address supplied by Herta.

11/14/04
"Liechtenstein is a country near Switzerland and Austria, and so I think, the DP camp Liechtenstein is in Murdorf-Judenburg" Herta.

Diary of Life in the Refugee Camps (January-June 1946)
By Anton Zakelj, translated and edited by John Zakelj
http://www.zakeljdiary.s5.com/1946eng.htm

Stadtarchiv, A-9900 Lienz,
Museum Schloss Bruck Tel. (04852) [0043 4852] 62580

photos, Slovenes

Yugoslav Refugees in Camps in Egypt and Austria 1944-47 by John Corsellis http://www.fmreview.org/rpn173.htm

AEIOU encyclopedia and photos

Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv
A-4010 Linz,
Anzengruberstrasse 19
Tel: +43 (732) 7720-14602
FAX: +43 (732) 7720-14619
Email: landesarchiv@ooe.gv.at

City archive - Stadtarchiv Linz , website: http://www.linz.at/archiv/

contact: Dr. Fritz Mayrhofer or Dr. Walter Schuster
Archiv der Stadt Linz
Hauptstrasse 1-5, Postfach 1000, A-4041 Linz
Tel: +43 (0)70/7070-2961
Fax: +43 (0)70/7070-2962
info@archiv.mag.linz.at

Diözese Linz

A-4020 Linz, Harrachstrasse 7
Tel. (0732) [0043 732] 771205 221, 222, 223



Source: Med. Dept./US Army


Source: Med. Dept./US Army

See Crommelin.org for more photos and stories:

• City Views
• Rubble - bomb damage
• LandHaus - UNRRA/IRO Headquarters
• Farewell Party - D.P. Camp "Maurice L. Tyler", Wegscheid Team 337

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9/10/04 Dear Olga,
I just discovered your website on displaced persons camp. It is a wonderful site. I was born at the displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria in 1946. My father told me that my mother died after birth but about two weeks ago I was informed that she is alive. My mother's name is Sara Zajdman (maiden name Bobrowska) and my father's name David Zajdman. I was born Ginendla Zajdman.

My mother lives in a state ward (hospital) in Graz, Austria. She is 84 years old and has been in hospitals since she suffered from postpartum depression after giving birth to me. She was written down as being Catholic so nobody knew she existed. You can imagine that I was shocked hearing all these details.

I'd appreciate it, if you could assist me in attaining information about the DP Camp in Linz. In addition, how may I receive information regarding my mother's background. She was born in Wilno, Poland. I would like to if any of her relatives are alive. I would appreciate any help you could give me. Thanking you in advance. Gila Rosenbloom / Israel

4/10/05 Hi Olga
Just found your website and what a great site.
Searching for my father:
My name is Nena and I'm searching for any information possible regarding the people in these photos (especially in Photo 1 of the man, woman and child). Many thanks Nena Sunners / Australia

My mother is the child in Photo 1 (above), she is searching for her father. She was born in WWII Linz a.d. Donau, Ebelsberg, Ufer 6in 1942 or 1943.

 

8/21/07 Dear Olga,

I have been reading through all the information on your website.  Thank you for collecting and publishing this information.

I am trying to find information about my father's father's mother, Anna Hubar Kurosz, born circa 1980, who died in Linz, Austria in 1943.  She was Polish Catholic and transported by the Nazis from her home village of Terebejno to Baranovichi where she was seriously injured by a German soldier.  She was then transported along with at least her son, Jozef Kurosz, by truck to Linz, Austria where she died of her injuries.  

My grandfather told me that she was "buried" in Linz.  Jozef settled in Zielona Gora, Poland after the war.

I have contacted the Linz city manager who has checked their database for the cemeteries in the city, and she is not listed.  

Assuming she was buried in a work camp, do you have any suggestions as to how I might continue my search?  I am planning to be in Linz, Austria in December for one day, and thought I might be able to find a Polish cemetery/church related to the work camp there.

Thank you for your time,

Joseph Kurosz, email: jkurosz@comcast.net, Sandown, NH

Reply from Klaus:
The most important were the (at least) 3 outposts of the Mauthausen concentration camp: Linz I, II and III
see also http://www.mauthausen-memorial.at/index_open.php
There were no female inmates in these camps in 1943, I.

But there were many other camps for forced labourers, a lot of them coming from Poland.
Here some camps with Polish inmates (mostly situated at or near the factory, for which they had to work):

Company Camps

AEG-Union
Gummiwerke Semperit /Hermann Göring Reichswerke
Ingenieure Mayreder, Kraus & Co
Julius Meinl AG
Rosenbauer(fire fighter equipement)
Teerag
V. A. W.

Because most of the camps were controlled by SS, I think, that (at least) the larger ones (with a high amount of deaths) had own burial sites (mass graves ?) and that probably none of the dead forced labourers have been buried "normally" at the city cemetories (the civilians should not notice the many dead bodies ...) !
 
But if you want to verify this, you may ask the following institutions:

- Archiv der Stadt Linz (City of Linz Archives): http://www.linz.at/Archiv/de/19324_24471.asp
- Landesarchiv OÖ (Archives of the State of Upper Austria): http://www.landesarchiv-ooe.at

Best wishes, Klaus

Linz Hospital, Land Upper Austria, (US zone), Jews, see above for archives

Markt-Pongau, St. Johan im Pongau, Land Salzburg (US zone)

Mauthasen 49 subcamps

See Linz archives, Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv

Municipal office: Gemeinde Mauthausen
Marktplatz 7
A 4310 Mauthausen

Tel: 0043 7238 2255 - 0
Fax: 0043 7238 2255 - 30
Email: gemeinde@mauthausen.at

Mühlviertel - (Swiss zone)

1/3/05 Hello,
I am requesting any information you may have on Camp Murdorff which was located in Judenburg. My mother was born there in 1947, and I am trying to find out all I can about the camp and what her life was like before coming to the US at 4 years of age. I am also trying to track down any of the existing family members. The only thing I have is that her birth mother's name was Lydia Tkaczowa, and she was born in a small town in what is now the western part of Ukraine. Any information you could give me will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marla Pavlowski / USA

New Palestine camp police; source: USHMM

Niederösterreich - (Swiss zone)