Fallingbostel, #2515, Land Niedersachsen (British zone), mostly Poles, Balts, Yugoslavs, Others
Submitted by: Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949:
Fallingbostel had the Assembly Center number 2515 from August 1945 to May 1949, and the DPACS (Displaced Persons Assembly Center Staff) number 9 from July 1947 to May 1949. Between May 1948 and May 1949 also the DPACS-number 9/68/72/107 has been used. From February 1948 onward Fallingbostel was Emigration Centre or Transit Centre or Resettlement Centre (which means all the same) for DPs about to emigrate.
County archives: Kreisarchiv
Landkreis Soltau-Fallingbostel
Vogteistr. 19
29683 Fallingbostel
Tel.: 49-5162-41253
City archives: Stadtarchiv
Fallingbostel, Stadtverwaltung
Vogteistr. 1
29683 Fallingbostel
Tel.: 49-5162-40118
Fax: 49-5162-40166
The Marx camp near Wittmund in the District Aurich existed already in August 1945 with the Assembly Centre number 221. There were mostly Poles. From January 1949 to July 1950 the camp had the Assembly Centre number 262 A and the DPACS number 81; the International Refugees Organisation area teams 600 and 704 were active there. The Polish DP Camp Marx/Wittmund existed still at the beginning of the 1960s.
For camps in Oldenburg see page O - Oldenburg.
3/13/0 Dear Olga,
I am looking for info about my father: Alex Krulow, who was in the Fallingbostel
camp in Germany in approx 1945. garry
sheedy
5/16/05 Olga,
I am searching for information about my father, Szymon Szwaluk. I think
he was in Fallingbostel around the time it was liberated. We have a feeling that
he may have assumed this identity. He spoke fluent Russian, German, Polish and
English, was very well educated (university) and mentioned Kharkov. He bears
scars from flogging and tattoos on both forearms. Christa, thornfield@bigpond.com thornfield@bigpond.com
On 4/13/08 Dear
Olga;
I am just searching
for information on the camps my father was in. He was a clerk/translator and
I just recently found in his posessions a journal of people's names. their
ailments and what was prescribed. The entries are dated Aug 14-23 1945.
One document reads UNRRA team 232 Fallingbostel camp; the
next is UNRRA team 58 Hesslingen transit camp. I would be happy to share
if it is needed.
J Daniels jotoad@sympatico.ca
Feldafing (US zone) Bavaria, near Starnberg; 3,700 Jews
Submitted by Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949:
County: Landratsamt
Starnberg
Strandbadstrasse 2
Postfach 1460
82317 Starnberg
Germany
Phone: 49-8151-148-0
Fax : 49-8151-148-292
E-Mail: Info@LRA-Starnberg.de
web: http://www.landkreis-starnberg.de
Kosher food in camp: http://www.tzemachdovid.org/vaadhatzala/kosher.shtml
http://www.wettersaeulen-in-europa.de/direct.htm?/feldafing.htm
Feldafing cemetary: A fence divides the Christian part from the Jewish cemetery with a memorial plus many tombstones, some of them decorated according to East European tradition. Source: Schwierz.
Good morning Ms. Kaczmar,
My name is Sonnenraiech Beniamin (Beni), my father Sonnenreich Moshe died and not speak about that period of time. However, yesterday I found part of my family who survived the Holocaust.

This is Moshe, my father (I found the son of Israel).

I think this is Cousin Saba? Do you know how to locate Saba?

The place is Feldafing. Do you have access to information from Feldafing?
My father born in Przemysel, Poland and have another 4 brothers and sisters. Is it possible to find the family name of Saba? My grandfather name is Zvi Sonnenreich and my grandmother's maiden name is Regina (Garten).
I found that there is one Sonnenreich from Hungary, Budapest (1939) who survived, and born in Przemysel as well. I know that my father was in Feldafing and in kibbutz Zerubavel. Thanks Sonnenreich, Beni
Felden
Feuerbach, Poles
Can't recall now much about the camp, except that it was modern barracks, not like the 18th Century Artillery Barracks we had been in in Ludwigsburg. There was an extensive area that had been use for training, and was full of unexploded ordinance. I can assure you that six Tellermines (German anti-personal mines) stuck into a large cooking pot with a screw-down lid, and with a fire lit under it, will dig a very nice 25m crater, and remove most of the windows in the barracks buildings about 300m away. As it was mid January, with snow on the ground, we were not popular, except of course, that no-one ever found out!
Another story from that time. Food was desperately short - the food riots I mentioned above were sparked off by lousy food in the camp, when our complaints were finally investigated, it was found that the Camp Commandant, an US Army officer, and several mates had been flogging the food on the Black Market. I believe he was sent back to the States in disgrace - probably for being caught.
One evening I was asked by one of the men to come and stand at the camp's edge and keep a lookout down the road, towards the guard house. Considering that the guards - again US Army - rarely moved out of their warm quarters during the day, the chances of them coming out at night were negligible, however ...
as a reward, our family ate meat the next few days. Of course, the perpetrators were, somehow, caught, and brought before the local American Court. At that time, my mother worked as a court interpreter, and she was on that case. To cut a long story short, the evidence was not enough to convict the accused. Very briefly, there were clear footprints in the snow (this was January 1946) going from the camp, to a field some distance away where a German farmer had a few cows. There was evidence of a cow being led up to the fence - and that's where the cow prints stopped. From the fence back to the camp there were quite obvious human (boots!) prints, but no sign that the people who had made the prints carried anything heavy.
After the accused had been discharged - having not been proved guilty, my mother asked one of them how it was done. I recall she recounted that story with some relish some time later, and was most annoyed when I stole her punch line - they put boots onto the cow and led it that way back to the camp.
Hope these odd recollections help!
Cheers, George Carrington
Fischbeck camp, see Hamburg page
Fissau, #1235, Schleswig Holstein (British zone)
Flanderskaserne, Ulm
Looking for my mother
Dear Olga, I am still searching for the DP camp where I was born and possibly lived. My mother was living in Flanderskaserne when I was born but I can't find it anywhere in the DP site. I have since gotten some information indicating that she emigrated to Canada but I do not know when. I was sent from Munich resettlement center in 1952. It seems I really find dead ends continually. I wonder if I just don't know where to look. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you for the wonderful site.Follow up: I was able to find the site for Flanderskaserne, it was in Ulm, whatever that is, but I think it was an area that included Stuttgart. My problem is trying to figure out which DP camp I might have been sent to from there. I don't even know if my mother went with me. I have been told I lived in Oberlenningen but I don't know for how long or when. It is like a needle in a haystack. I do have a lead that my mother might be in Canada but so far, no luck in making contact. Thank you for the help. Your site is fascinating and I can't imagine the work you and others have gone to for the assembling of the site, and the pictures included really bring it to life. Rita Miller
Olga's follow-up: Rita has reported that she has found her mother. Isn't that great!
Flensburg, #1203, #1237; Schleswig Holstein (British zone; Ukrainians, Balts, Yugoslavs, Lithuanians, Poles,
City archive - Stadtarchiv
http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/archive/kreis_frei/saflensb.html
Rathausplatz 1
24937 Flensburg
Tel: 04 61 - 85 25 35
Fax: 04 61 - 85 23 72
Forced repatriation: Aug.'45 refugees left were largely those who did not wish to return home. British soldiers surrounded 500 Ukrainians at Flensburg, dragged them off, aided by Soviet NKVD agents. (Wyman p.66).
Hi Olga.
I am doing research on my family and we have letters that were sent from my great
aunt to her sister (my great grandmother) in the US. My great aunt passed away
in 1948 but we have no idea of what happened to her husband. His name was Franz
Warsanys and her name was Rosel. They lived at the end of her life in Flensburg
Lager Kilsenk, Lager Baracks 10, Room 8, British Zone. Do you have any suggestions
to find out anything about them? Thank you so very much, Mark
Truty
Fliegerhorst
Reply: Fliegerhorst is the German word for air-base or airfield. One needs the name of the town or place where the Fliegerhorst was situated. Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.
Flossenbuerg city recorder's office,http://www.flossenbuerg.de/gemeinde/ra/st.htm in German;
My brother's birth document shows Tirschenreuth and has Flossenburg. I know we were at Altenstadt, Schongau (US Zone) Germany. I have a report card with dates of 11 July 1950 to 1 May 1951. On my medical record it has Munich, Germany, Funk Caserne dated Sept 1951. We were on the move all the time. We immigrated to the US in Oct 1951 E. Hutchins
Dear Olga,
I would like to trace the IRO Children's Village - Bad Aibling. Rosalia Kiszka, Roman Catholic, resided at 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
Foehrenwald, http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/dp/camp3.htm Föhrenwald, near Wolfratshausen; 5,000 Jews
Only a few original buildings exist today and the settlement is called Waldram and is part of the town Wolfratshausen. The camp near Wolfratshausen, was called "Föhrenwald" (i.e, there weren't two camps). So perhaps the Einwohnermeldeamt (Residents' registration office) in Wolfratshausen has also birth certificates of this camp.
City archive: in
Wolfratshausen telephone number (0049) 8171/214-140:
Stadtarchiv Wolfratshausen
Loisach Ufer 1
82515 Wolfratshausen
Tel. and Fax 08171-76650
http://www.stadtarchiv-wolfratshausen.de/
Photo of camp: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery2/71675.htm
Henry Cohen was the Director of Camp Foehrenwald, the second largest Jewish
displaced persons center in the American Zone of Germany in 1946.
http://www.remember.org/witness/cohen.html
http://edf3.gallaudet.edu/diversity/BGG/Holocaust/BGGclass.htm
Street scene of camp: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/gallery2/71675.htm
Good morning:
I am looking for anyone who may have come in contact with Canadians who worked
for UNRRA.
Thank you for any assistance you could provide. Susan Armstrong-Reid
Hi Olga
I was born in Foehrenwald DP camp in 1949, and I have never had a birth
certificate. I travelled on my parents travel papers. Would you tell
me how I can obtain a birth certificate? Thank You Shifra
Olga's note: Write to the city recorder, in English or German. They will translate and forward to the correct person. Ask for one in English and German since there may be transcription errors in English. See bottom of Aschaffenburg page for sample letter.
Archives of Europe: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro1.html