Displaced Persons -

Parsch, L. Salzburg (U.S.), Ukrainians, Team 318, Box 11, Jews

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A-5020 Salzburg
Tel.: (0662) 20541

See Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv See Linz.


Parsch DP camp Hebrew announcements; source: Yad Vashem

Dear Olga
I do hope you can help me. My husband was born in Russia. From approx 1945 to 1956 he spent his entire childhood in a Displaced Persons' Camp. The name was Lager Parsch, located on the Salzburg River...The VonTrapp family home could be seen across the river.

It was a captured German Barracks. My husband remembers quite a bit--but would like to see maps of the area to see if he remembers well. The Red Cross did go there. He remembers the mountains--food was scarce--there was a soccer field at the camp and a garden that the families could tend. Any assistance from you would be greatly appreciated Thank You Luci Lebedew

Follow-up:
Dear Olga!
The search is still on!!! I received maps from Library of Congress--Bill found the Camp!--Also due to this, he had memories of a Jewish Camp Weichselbaum Siedlung---also the first Camp that his family arrived at in Austria---Foltzgarten (sp)--now I need to look that one up!!!!! The UN site has photos which will be forwarded--Thank You for your suggestions! Again THANK YOU Luci Lebedew

Olga's reply: See Volksgarten.

Peggau

Olga
Two years ago I visited a man in Peggau, he had a exhibition about his own paintings and suddenly a friend of his and he told me about a camp in Peggau. I was surprised to listen from the past. The people there must work very, very hard with stones. Herta

Peggetz camp in Lienz Austria, Ukrainians

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

Municiple office: Stadtgemeindeamt Lienz
Hauptplatz 7
A 9900 Lienz

Tel: 0043 4852 600 - 0
Fax: 0043 4852 600 - 411
Email: rathaus@stadt-lienz.at

Dear Olga
My husband has accidentally stumbled onto your website - how comforting to know that there are many in the same predicament as myself - searching for pieces of a puzzle with very little to go on.

I know that I was born in Peggetz camp in Lienz Austria in 1946 - at that time I had a sister aged 12 and a brother aged 11 who, after my mother's passing, revealed to me the full story of our time in Austria; a time when people embraced each new day with a hope for a better future for themselves and their children. So many families torn apart by the ravages of war, some lucky enough to be re-united with loved ones - others having to create new beginnings and sadly, some never speaking about the hardships they endure.

For some five years now my husband and I have instigated searches through the Red Cross for my birth father Michael Krassov/Krassnov (spelling could differ) - my brother and sister are not sure which of the names was correct - nor do we have any dates of birth, country of origin etc. Michael left Peggetz camp, Lienz in 1946 after learning that his wife and child/children were in another camp in Austria or Germany (details also not known). We were eventually repatriated to Australia and arrived here from Naples, Italy in 1949.

I would dearly love to find my father's family - just to put the puzzle altogether and to learn of their own story. If there is anyone out there who can give me a lead on ships and passenger lists or any records of names and countries of repatriation. Thank you and will keep searching. NADIA OWEN (SHEVCHENKO)

Olga's reply:
check this web page out:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~tpsoft/index.html

See Rosittenlager, Rosittenkasern, See Saltzburg archives... Archiv der Stadt Salzburg mit Archiv des Salzburger Museums Carolino-Augusteum, Schloss,
Museumsplatz 6,
5010 Salzburg

Hello,
My name is Carol and my parents lived in one of the dp camps in Austria in 1945. My mother is 81 now and does not remember a lot of the camp. The name that both she and my late father keep coming up with is "Pongow". It was what they called the American zone in Austria. They first were placed in the British zone (perhaps because he was a pilot in the Royal Air Force) and later moved to the American zone. I can not seem to find that name in the camps I have looked at on your website. Do you have any knowledge of this or is it a name perhaps they came up with in fading memories? Thank you very much for any information you may have. Carol

Olga's reply: See Markt-Pongau, St. Johan im Pongau, Land Salzburg (U.S.) Sankt Johann im Pongau or St. Johann/Pg. is a small town in the middle of Salzburg, Austria. It is the capital for the district of Pongau. PONGAU IN THE SALZBURGERLAND - The Pongau is one of the five districts of the Salzburg region and is home to many famous ski and winter sport resorts. In summer, the Pongau has many attractions and highlights on offer. http://www.pongau-salzburg.at/
English: http://www.pongau-salzburg.at/index.php?lang=en&werber=
E-Mail: pongau-salzburg@upps.att

"We finally arrived at Markt Pongau prison camp, where the German guards offered us their rifles. The date was the 10th of May, 1945. The war had been over for two days." See: http://www.btinternet.com/~stalag18A/end.html

Rauchenbichl, Salzburg Itzling

Photo submitted by Klaus Fohringer

Terror im Reichsgau Steiermark 1938-1945

Stadtarchiv, A-4910 Ried im Innkreis,
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Dear Ms. Kaczmar,
My friend Nick Sapsai and I discovered your Web site (Congratulations on a worthy and excellent venture) this evening and would like to tell you about another DP Camp in Austria - to be specific it was named 701A, Reid, Austria. We are working on his autobiography and are trying to find some of his compatriots during the many transitions in his early life. How can we help you with information about Camp 701A in order to give you useful info for your web citizens? Nick and his family moved to another DP in Austen, Austria before they came to the U.S. in April of 1950. Thank you very much for your efforts. Sincerely, Dave Greene

Rosittenlager, Rosittenkasern, Pferdelazarett - Hungarians (See also Salzburg)

See Saltzburg archives... Archiv der Stadt Salzburg mit Archiv des Salzburger Museums Carolino-Augusteum, Schloss,
Museumsplatz 6,
5010 Salzburg

Dear Olga,
A short while ago I came across a map of the town of Salzburg in Austria. I noted, that presently it also contains a streetname called "ROSITTENGASSE". When in the year of 1955 I left Salzburg to immigrate to the USA, there was only a place called Rosittenlager, which also was called Rosittenkaserne or also Pfrerdelazarett and was the residence of hundreds of displaced people of Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and several other southeastern countries of Europe. These people had to flee the onrushing Russian Army due to their ethnic heritance going back as far as two hundred years at this time. But because they either had a Germanic sounding name or spoke a type of germanic dialect, they were endangerd. I am enclosing some pictures depicting the back of Barrack No. 13 showing me (left), my sister and my brother, taken in 1954, and another one below, from 1946, shows the Schloss Leopoldskron, which was used as the residence of the Von Trapp family in the Movie "The Sound of Music". I am in the forefront. George Herzog




		George Herzog in front of Schloss Leopoldskron,
The Old Country This is my Mom in the picture with me, her name was Maria Andrejovec and she was born in Slovenia. You asked about the roof of the house, it was covered with red tiles, which was customary in these regions. The place I referred to as the "old Country" was a town by the name of Kernei, also called Kereny in Hungary and Krnjaja in Yugoslavia. It constantly switched names, because at one times it was Hungarian, then after World war 1, it became Yugoslavian and in 1943, was Hungarian again. In the first grade of school, I learned to count in Yugoslavian, then in second Grade, I was taught the same in Hungarian. In October, 1944, we were transported by the German army to Hungary. We finally wound up in a camp in St. Michael, near Graz in the Steirmark, from where we were transported to Klagengefurt in Kärnten. From there we were loaded into a freight train heading north. Near the town of Bischofshofen in Salzburg, we got stranded till the end of the war. From there we were taken by the US troops to the Riedenburg Kaserne where we stayed for a few month. From there we were moved to the Rosittenkaserne which I described above.
		Rosittenkaserne Photo from Austrian database (www.aeiou.at)

 

Photo submitted by Klaus Fohringer; Source Yad Vashem.