Bedburg, #3189, #41/189; L. Niedersachsen (British zone), 3/4 Poles, Balts
The following is taken from forced labor in Bedburg: http://www.wisoveg.de/bedburg/zwangsarbeit/otb2.html
1. Camp Zuckerfabrik Bedburg (French, Russian and Polish
Kriegsgefangene during the Rübenkampagne).
2. Civil workers camp in Bedburg Bez. Köln (Ukrainian for Aufräum- and Instandsetzungsarbeiten; Camp halter Adolf Müller;
Friedhofstrasse)
3. War prisoner camp in Frauweiler; later Rath (insgesamt ca. 90 Polish, Russian and French).
4. Foreigner workers camp of civilian workers, Bedburg Bez. Köln the Reichsbahn Bedburg (1943 - 1945 ca. 400 persons; workers from the East, Polish, Holländer; bewacht through Bahnschutz Düren; verteilt auf the Fabrikgebäude the Rheinischen Linoleumindustrie, der Bedburger Wollindustrie, der Gaststätte Fikentscher (Neusserstrasse), the School Kirdorf and the Barracks Camp House Nr. 67; Leiter war Reichsbahninspektor Klinkhammer and Rechnungsführer
Wilhelm Nussbaum, der near a Fliegerangriff ums survive kam.
5. OT-Lager Bedburg (approximately 2000 persons; Hollanders, French, Belgias, Italians, Ukrainians and Polish; the preference followed through the OT).
6. War prisoner camp Bedburg Broich (all together about 50 French and Polish
7. Civilian workers camps Bedburger Wollindustrie (bis zu 100 persons; vorwiegend Ukrainians. 15)
10/13/04
In May 1945 approximately 90 British Medical Students went to alieviate the suffering of the inmates at Belsen. I am trying to find anyone who remembers them and can tell me anything that they remember about them. Rowan MacAuslan / UK
Benefeld, #2523, L. Niedersachsen (British zone)
Bensheim site in German, Jews
Berchtesgaden, "Orlyk", Ukrainians; Visit Shevchenko Scientific Society Library for records 1945-50.
Bergen-Belsen (Hohne) (British zone), Jews, Dutch,
Angelika Brossig contributed the following research:
Bergen-Belsen lies between three cities: Bergen, Winsen and Celle (Kreisstadt) Home page of Bergen-Belsen: http://www.bergenbelsen.de/de/karte/anfahrt/
City Archives : Stadtarchiv Bergen
Am Museum 2
29303 Bergen
Stadtarchivar: Kurt-Werner Seebo Email: Kurt-Werner.Seebo@bergen-online.de Tel.: 05051/911 107
The city link : http://www.bergen-online.de/index1024.htmHomepage of city Winsen: http://www.winsen.de/internet/ -- There is no archive but this contact is:
Buergerservice:
Christian Riech http://www.winsen.de/internet/page.php?site=29&id=2000124
http://www.winsen.de/inhalt/vcard.php?person=2000124&kommune=2&medium=1
Rathaus Stadt Winsen (Luhe), Zimmer 2.10
Schlossplatz 1
21423 Winsen (Luhe)
Telefon: 04171 657-129
Fax: 04171 657-168
E-Mail: riech@stadt-winsen.deHomepage of the bigger "Kreisstadt (county town) Celle": http://www.landkreis-celle.de/ -- there should be archives
http://www.landkreis-celle.de/index.php?id=42&hi=0,1
contact under Kreisverwaltung - Kreisarchiv: the Kreisarchiv-archiver: Rainer.Voss@lkcelle.deKreisarchiv
Tel: 05141 / 916 353 Fax: 05141 / 916 474
Street address:Landkreis Celle
Kreisarchiv
Trift 26, Gebäude 6
D-29221 Celle Landkreis Celle
Postal address: Kreisarchiv
Postfach 1105
D-29201 Celle
Bergisch Gladbach
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (German Historical Museum, Berlin)
searchable
archives data bank
http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/bildarchiv.html
Berlin Airlift Humanitarian relief Operation Chowhound / Operation Vittles http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/docs/humanops.htm
Berlin
Archives: http://www.bgr.de/dbberlin/zb/e_a_benutz.htm
Tel.: +49 (0)30 / 369 93 119
Fax: +49 (0)30 / 369 93 300
E-mail:
thorsten.bernhard@bgr.de
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Handschriftenabteilung
Potsdamer Str. 33
10785 Berlin
Tel.: 030.266 - 2841
E-mail: handschriftenabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Bundesarchiv Berlin
Postfach 450569
12175 Berlin
Tel.: 01888.7770-0
Fax.: 01888.7770-111
E-mail: berlin@barch.bund.de
http://www.bundesarchiv.de
Jewish Museum in Berlin
English: http://www.jmberlin.de/home_english.htm
Deutsch: http://www.jmberlin.de/tp1130111.htm
e-mail: archive@jmberlin.de
3/20/05 Hallo, liebe Olga Kaczmar,
RE: From New York Times August 14, 1947, Genf :
http://www.deutsche-zeitung.com/Vorhof/Redaktion_1/Terror_in_Palastina/Israels_Geburt/body_israels_geburt.html:
We found two document centers in Berlin. (1) many people go here - looks like its working - this is in Berlin by the Document Wall Exhibit area by the old 3rd Reich Justice building where the People's Court was centered (part of East Berlin). There are a couple of trailers on the site and still need to construct buildings. (2) The second is next to Check Point Charlie where a couple of hundred people or more passed away trying to escape the Berlin Wall or East Germany in areas outside of Berlin. What a sad place this was - as there are black crosses about eight feet high and in the center of the cross on a metal card was the person's name, if identified, where they came from and what happened. Each cross represents person who died escaping from GDR (East Germany) - looked like there were 200 of them. The document center needs contributions to build.
It was fascinating to visit Berlin, beautiful city. I hope to return and visit more. You should see how developed when there was East and West Berlin - there's 2 train stations and a 3rd is being built as none of the 2 can handle all the bullet trains effectively. In places, Berlin looks like the Bronx, NYC or cities in the Northeast USA - very spread out but not many skyscrapers like Frankfurt (has tallest buildings in Germany) that looks like Chicago.
I still think about this trip, and have a better understanding of what your family went through. A. Sucharew.
Bettenhausen (Kassel)
Main Building: Hauptgebäude
Rollinstrasse 9, 88400 Biberach Tel.:0 73 51 / 52-0
Fax: 0 73 51 / 525-350
Office of Information:
Amt für
Information und Kommunikation
Riedlinger Strasse 88, 88400 Biberach Tel.0 73 51 / 55-1616
Fax: 0 73 51 / 52-50016
http://www.weberberg.de/infoport/lindele.html
Exerpts from the book on Lager Lindele:
http://www.weberberg.de/prolog/lindelebuchtausch.html
http://www.weberberg.de/prolog/lindelebuch1.html
keep up the good work! Dierk Andresen Organization: http://freemail.web.de/
Hello Olga,
My quest to find out more information about my mother and father has led me to your site on displaced persons camps in Germany. The first thing that struck me is the number of camps listed... we cannot imagine...So I am now in need of some guidance. I have found from my mother's records that she was in a DP camp in Biberach. How can I confirm that this is the case?
What records can I search to determine that this is the case and will there be any information on how she possibly got there from Lithuania? Are there listings held in archives that could be a source for me...
Any suggestions would be most welcome...kindest regards, Ellen Osman / Australia
http://www.bielefeld.de/de/rv/ds_stadtverwaltung/arch/
Evangelische Kirche von Westfalen
Landeskirchliches Archiv
Postfach 10 10 51
33510 Bielefeld
Phone: (0521) 594-0
Fax: (0521) 594-267
E-mail: archiv@lka.ekvw.de
Web site: http://www.archive.nrw.de
Hello:
I found your contact on the web. We are looking for information on : Franz PANTEL We presume that he died during the invasion of Russia in 1945. He was a soldier with the German army during WW2. His brother eventually settled in Bielefeld (near Dortmund) after the war. Have you any information on a list of German soldiers who were killed or went missing in Russia in 1945? Thank you in advance for your assistance. Sincerely, Richard J. Pantel
4/11/05 Dear Olga, My mother is alive and tells me the camp was in Bielefeld. It was a big school house with a hospital across the road. They slept in classrooms with blankets dividing the rooms into smaller living quarters for the different families. She says it was a beautiful place, at least on the outside. The place looked like a park. When they were brought to Germany from Ukraine, they were picked by a man named "Hamms" who had a furniture factory that was changed into a place where they supplied wooden crates for bombs and grenades and other such munitions for the soldiers of Hitler. She says it was near Hanover and the town was called "Banandorf, or something like that. I have searched towns in and around Hanover and cannot find it. I am trying to research all the things my partents have told me and try to write a life story book for my 82 yr. old mother. It will be something her great grandchildren can read and see where they came from. If you have any other info on what I have asked. Please let me know. I would be very appreciative. Thank You, Martha Bakeman
Reply: place Banandorf does not exist in Germany, so no doubt it is misspelling. I have no idea which place that could be, but I think probably today forms part of Bielefeld. I even consulted the list of street names of Bielefeld, but I don't find any that could match. Senne I and Senne II were two places and two communities, both form today part of the town of Bielefeld. Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.
Bierde (British zone)
Bissingen / Teck
Bleckede (British zone)
Bleidorn, Ansbach, Bavaria
See Ansbach for archives
4/14/08
Hello Olga,
My name is Allison Sieczka, I found your website in the hopes of finding out more about my grandfather. He was a displaced person. All I was told by my mother was he was a cook for the German army while there. He passed away when she was very young. Please let me know if you could help me. Thank you, Allison Sieczka asieczka@sbcglobal.net |
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Blomberg, #3132, 33/132; L. Niedersachsen (British zone),Ukrainians, half Latvian, Balts; Visit Shevchenko Scientific Society Library for records
Stadt Blomberg
Der Bürgermeister
Marktplatz 1
32825 Blomberg
Stadt Blomberg
Der Bürgermeister
Postfach 1452
32820 Blomberg
Tel: 0 52 35 / 50 40
Fax: 0 52 35 / 50 46 10
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