Lithuanian women learn dressmakers' trade in DP camp Bad-Mergentheim
Photo from Hearken Then Judge by Juozas Pasilaitis, submitted by Frank Passic
City archive: Stadtarchiv
Babenhausen
Anschrift: Burgmannenhaus,
Postanschrift: Stadtverwaltung,
Postfach 1109, D-64824
Babenhausen,
Tel. (06073) 602-0
Hessen digital archives dealing with World War II
http://www.stad.hessen.de/DigitalesArchiv/anfang.html?http://www.stad.hessen.de/DigitalesArchiv/nachkriegszeit/uebersichtnachkriegszeit.htm
"The war was not over, but the great increase in the numbers of prisoners of war was seriously slowing the advance of the American armies. The 106th Division was chosen to handle the influx of prisoners. The Old Guard was given responsibility for camps at Buderich, Limburg, Budesheim, Ditersheim, Mainz, Siershan, Lagstadt, Hergeshausen, Babenhausen, Rheydt, Darmstadt, and others. Literally hundreds of thousands of German prisoner and Russian displaced persons were fed, clothed, medicated, interrogated, classified, and released after April 1945. In the following year, the 3d also assumed responsibility for all Civilian Internee camps in the 7th Army area, a staggering 19 installations, holding 50,000 people, including hospitals, Friendly Witness Barracks, and SS compounds. In all, the Old Guard administered, fed, clothed, and guarded or protected 1,050,000 people in camps scattered over a large part of Germany for a year." from: Military District of Washington, US. Army. http://www.mdw.army.mil/OLDGUARD/history/HardTimes&WW.htm
RE: My father's footsteps
Hello Olga
I am researching my father's history. He left Latvia sometime in 1944 and ended up in Babenhausen Germany in a displaced persons' camp. He came to Australia in 1948 after marrying in Babenhausen. I am trying to find answers to how he would have come to Germany. How did the German army evacuate itself from Latvia in 1944. If he was in the Latvian Army or a partisan group would the Germans have taken Latvians with them or would he have made his own way to Germany and if so how?
I visited Latvia last year and visited a large German war cemetery near where he grew up so I am guessing he was in the middle of the last resistance against the Russians. Also he had ten brothers and sisters and I am wondering why he was the only one to find his way out of Latvia.
Eddie Ozols / Mt Annan NSW Australia
Bad Aibling
Dear Olga,
I would like to trace the IRO Children's Village - Bad Aibling. Rosalia Kiszka, Roman Catholic, resided at Flossenburg, Stanislawa Kiszka who was born in 1946 in Flossenburg, UNRRA lager.Do you know the Roman Catholic Parish for Flossenburg? Anyone know about the Kiszka family in Stryj - Galizien (Galicia); 1846-1912. Death certificate shows Greek Catholic.Any suggestions or information you provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Bruce B. Miller
http://www.muenchen-flughafentransfer.de/aibling.htm
city website: http://www.aibling.de/
Herausgeber:
Stadt Bad Aibling
Marienplatz 1
83043 Bad Aibling
Tel: +49 8061 49 01-0
Fax: +49 8061 54 26
Email: rathaus@aibling.de
Internet: http://www.bad-aibling.de
2/15/007 Mrs. Kaczmar,
In 1948, my father, Konstanty Proniewicz, was transferred to
the IRO Children's Village here as an unaccompanied minor, where he
attended school and was processed for transfer to the US in
1950. He also received First Communion as a Catholic here, though I
have no baptismal records of him. His original ethnicity and religion
are unknown, though probably Polish or Belarussian and Jewish. Any
information on this location would be greatly appreciated. Max Monclair
http://maxmonclair.blogspot.com
Bad Kissingen
City archive: Stadtarchiv
Bad Kissingen
Promenadestr. 6
97688
Bad Kissingen
Tel: 09 71 - 807-140
Fax: 09 71 - 807-149
http://www.badkissingen.de/Home/Leben%2Bin%2BKissingen/182.catid/
Hello!! You really have done a great job with your web site and it has helped me understand the beginnings of the aid to refugee programs in post war Germany. Unfortunately, my research is oriented more towards the IRO and in particular, the Headquarters of that organization located in the German town of Bad Kissingen, 1947 - 1949. Can you point me towards any archival sources that discuss this part of the refugee story?
I have seached the web and found very little in detail, the book The International Refugee Organization written by L.W. Holborn is often mentioned. I have yet to locate a copy. The Hulme book, The Wild Place, discusses much of the pre - history to the period I am researching, however, it ends just where the IRO story seems to begin. Can you help me out?? Robert A Stefaowicz
Follow up:
To the best of my knowledge, Bad Kissingen had no camp for displaced persons of any size for any duration. This is not to say that something may have existed for a few months following the war, just that in comparison to the major camps, there was nothing of note.
The Wild Place by Hulme: the book gives a great account of DP Camp at Wildflecken, approx 35 kilometers NW of BK. Hulme's book ends just as the story of the IRO in BK begins. Here is a link if you have not visited this very good site: www.dp-camp-wildflecken.de/pictures.htm
The former German Army Barracks called Mantueffel Kaserne, located just north of Bad Kissingen, was the home of the Headquarters of the International Refugee Organization that was trying to organize the relief efforts for DPs in the post war period. The American Army was there from 1945 - 1947, then they departed for a few years, that left the area free for the IRO, part of the start-up United Nations. The US Army returns to Manteuffel Kaserne in 1951 and remains until 1991. When the Army moves back to BK, the IRO departs and I believe they considered the DP problem essentially solved by 1951. See my web site at : http://www.eaglehorse.org
I have very little on the IRO period. But my site is a good source for information otherwise about the town in the pre and post war years. In particular, see the Home Station folder and the " Hidden Stories " sections. They give you an idea of what was going on in the middle and late 1940s in BK.
The activities of the IRO in the town are largely a mystery to me beyond the fact that as the organization headquarters, it clearly would have processed a lot of paperwork. Bob
I, too, am interested in any research on the dp came at Bad Kissingen. Alexandra T. Gibson
Bad Kreuznach
www.stadt-bad-kreuznach.de
Telefon: 0671 920 77 86
Telefax: 0671 920 77 92
stadtverwaltung@bad-kreuznach.de
"in April 1945, 884th Anti - Aircraft Artillery unit crossed the Rhine at Bingen, having previously administered and policed Bingen and Bad Kreuznach districts. Unit first encountered serious problems - looting, crime - with roving DPs in the Bad Scweppenhausen and surrounding areas."Submitted by: Alan Newark from www.onwar.com
Bad Lippspringe, #3145, L. Niedersachsen (British zone)
Bad Mergentheim (US zone), Lithuanian
Bad Nauheim, north of Frankfurt a/M
Bad Oeynhausen,
Reply from Olga: As the war to came to an end, the British soldiers came upon a terrible sight: 60,000 humans in Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen, most have hardly the strength to be pleased about the arrival of their rescuers. In the next months, 13,000 humans die of malnutrition, weakness and typhoid fever. 6000 inhabitants, displaced persons, former KZ prisoners and forced laborers were accommodated in barracks near the city, and an undestroyed the health spa became the British headquarters.
Fri, 26 Sep 2003
Dear Mrs. Kaczmar
There was no DP camp in or near Bad Oeynhausen!!!
The information on your website is a VERY bad translation of an German
newspaper article appearing in the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung". The original German text (URL:
http://www.neue-oz.de/_archiv/noz_print/medien/2001/09/krieg_fr.html) is a review of a
TV documentation about the end of World War II in Germany. One scene of this film
illustrates that all 6000 (German) inhabitants of Bad Oeynhausen were evacuated and in
housed baracks outside of the town while the spa was converted into the headquarter of
the British forces in Germany. Another scene of the film shows a DP camp in Osnabrück.
The "Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen" (concentration camp Bergen-Belsen) was
situated in the so-called "Lüneburger Heide", a heathland south of Lüneburg.
(Bergen is a village in that heathland, and NO mountain.)
Yours sincerely,
Vinzenz Lübben M.A. (Stadt Minden, Archiv)
Kommunalarchiv Minden
Tel: (0571) 97220-12
Fax: (0571) 97220-11
Email: v.luebben@minden.de
Bad Rehberg, #276, Land Niedersachsen (British zone)
Bad Reichenhall (US zone), Jews (Careful:There is a Bad Reichenhall in both Germany and Austria.)
City archive: Stadtarchiv
Bad Reichenhall,
Street addres: Stadtverwaltung, Rathausplatz 1 und 8, 83435 Bad Reichenhall,
Post box: Postfach 1140, 83421 Bad Reichenhall
Dear Olga,
I went through your web site looking for information regarding Bad
Reichenhall DP Camp (in which I was born) but couldn't find any. Do you have
access to information about this DPCamp? Ze'ev
Sharon, Kiriat Ata Haifa Israel
Olga, I'm looking for information on Feldafing, Bad Reichenhall, Korbach and Ludwigsfeld. Thanks. S.Bycko
After the war, we spent 5 years in various DP camps in Germany before we migrated to Australia. I was born in DP camp Hohenfels, Bad Reichenhall. Thanks so much, you have a great site, love coming back to check it out. Maria Nolan / Australia
Dear Olga,
I am looking for a possible relative. His name is H. Binder, who was looking
for me [his cousin] on June 7 1947 at Dabrowa Gornicza in Poland. His address
in 1947 was Bad Reichenhall UNRRA Team 1070 , Kibuc Borochowa. I think
that he was born around 1909. If you have any information on file that might
help me find family it would be very much appreciated. Thanking you in advance, Chave /
Italy. Fax # Jerusalem 02 6411189
Email: melchave@netvision.net.il
Bad Salzschlirf, Jews
Hello,
Here are the original Military
Government for Germany Temporary Travel Document in lieu of
passport for stateless persons and persons of undetermined nationality." There
is a stamp from the IRO, British Visa section and also Canada.
Place of issue was Bad Salzuflen. Alexandra
T. Gibson / Canada
Bad Sassendorf
Bad Windsheim
7/9/05
Olga, my husband is Ukrainian and was born in a dp camp in Germany in 1946.
We need a copy of his birth certificate, but are unable to locate which camp
it was. His Baptism Certificate shows Windsheim akr Uffuheim Bayerm. Someone
who knew his parents said he was born in Wetsheim. I couldn't locate anything
for any of these names. Is there anything I could do with this limited information?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...BODNIOWYCZ@aol.com
This Lithuanian encampment was located 65 kilometers west of Munich. A product of Team 558 is had its own money with English inscription which read D.P. CENTER BAD WÖRISHOFEN / UNRRA and the denomination. 15,000 were printed by Hans Holsmann, July 1946. From Displaced Persons Camp Money by Frank Passic and Steven A. Feller.
March 10, 2008
My own family
was one of the first Ukrainian families to live In Bad Worishofen
from Spring 1946 until our resettlement to Dillingen, Mittenwald
or Regensburg mid 1948. To best of my knowledge there were as many
as 400+ Ukrainian families in Bad Werishofen. In fact there are quite
a few of them still living in Chicago Metro area. I'll try to get as
much info from them as possible. Most of them are in their 80' or late
70's. I'm one of the youngest - 69 yrs old.
By the way are you familiar with Leonid DENYSENKO and
his brother Jurij from Australia? Leonid is a very know artist and graphic
down under. Jurij is an architect there also. The reason
I'm bringing up Leonid is for he also was in Bad Worishofen. He was my late
brother's classmate at the only matura class to graduate in Bad
Worishofen.
If you have aquintances in Australia then please ask
them to give you his e-address (which I do not have). Leonid has an unbelievable
collections of his drawings, showing all aspects of Ukrainian life, in Bad
Worishofen. Slavko Pihslav@aol.com
Email to the city recorder (Standesamt) riss@bad-wurzach.de
City offices: Stadt
Bad Wurzach
Marktstrasse 16
88 410 Bad Wurzach
Tel.: + 49 (0) 75 64/ 302-0
Fax: + 49 (0) 75 64/ 302-170
Email: stadt@bad-wurzach.de
Municiple offices:
Am Brink 9
26160 Bad Zwischenahn
Tel.: 04403/604-0
Fax: 04403/604-444
Email: gemeinde@bad-zwischenahn.de
Chronological history of Bad Zwischenahn http://www.hotel-rosmarin.de/inhalt/geschichte.html
City information: http://cities.eurip.com/stadt/bad+zwischenahn/
2/23/05
I was born in Germany at the camp but came to the United States a few months
after birth. My birth certificate is registered in Bad Zwischenahn but I can't
seem to find their location. Al Grunas
7/17/07
My Father, Aleksander Markus and his mother Janina Markus, both of Poland, Zofia Schurik were registered at Bad Zwischenahn. If anyone has any information about this camp, please write Mark Norek events@lifesanadventure.com.au
Baden Baden (French zone) DPs from Silesia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia (Bohemia and Moravia)
"Life was more full of hope for the displaced persons from the former German territories in the East and the refugees from the Soviet Zone (by 1951 there had been 1,005,666). From 1945 to the end of 1950 they flowed into the country in several migratory waves, initially almost only to the American Zone, then through resettlement also into the French Zone. (By 1961 the count of new citizens, particularly because of refugees from Middle Germany, rose to 1,620,428." quoted from: http://www.pantel-web.de/bw_mirror/history/bw328_e.htm
History of Baden: http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BAD-WUE/hist.html#Hist-B
Balondorf (U.S. zone)
Bamberg has
it own page; (U.S. zone), Ukrainians, Latvian, Jews
Bährendorf #1233 (British zone) Schleswig Holstein region
Barum, #2911, Land Niedersachsen (British zone);
Poles, Balts
Bavaria general research not a camp, but lots of research help; Bavaria is called Bayern by the Germans.
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City library: Stadtbibliothek Bayreuth, Luitpoldplatz 7, 95444 Bayreuth
University library:Universität Bayreuth, Zentralbibliothek (central library), Universitätsstrasse 30, 95447 Bayreuth
Dear Olga,
My family and I were in DP camps in several locations after the war: Bamberg, Bayreuth, Fraundorf and Ansbach. Where can I locate more information about the camps? Thank you, Hedy Ziemba
Hello Olga.
I was wondering if you could assist me. I am trying to locate information pertaining to Austrian PWs that were held after WWII in the Bayreuth area. I believe they would specifically have been in Bindlach just north of Bayreuth. I have aquired two sketches of a 9th Army Air Force (AAF) Sergeant that are dated 1945 and just outside Bayreuth.
I was stationed there in the 80s and collect items from there. I thought these were interesting just because they were from there and that I have a few other items of the 9th AAF which I knew were at the base in Binlach just after WWII. Upon receiving the sketches, I realized that they were drawn according to the signature by an Austrian PW and it also references two other Austrian PWs. One sketch also references the Sergeant favorably which leads me to believe that this Sergeant must have had a good relationship with the artist as well as the others. It is written on the back of one of the sketches, "Our good Mr. Olson", who is the Sergeant in the sketch. I would like to find this artist if possible. I was wondering if you could tell me where to locate lists or archives with the names of the PWs from Germany and the different areas so that I might discover where this gentleman might have been released or taken. I have just begun my search and will contact Bayreuth as well. I plan on going back this year so I hope to see what archives they might have at that time.
The artist name is Karl Lindken. I cannot help but wonder what happend to this man and his friends. If you know where I might find links to PW or POW art that would be wonderful as I have not found much thus far. Thank you for any help you might provide and great job on the website. A lot of time and effort has gone into it. I salute you. Patrick
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