DP Camps in Germany - Fr

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Frankfurt, (U.S. zone)

Frankfurt 19th century on the right

City archive: Stadtarchiv Frankfurt am Main
Address: Karmelitergasse 5, D-60311 Frankfurt/Main,
Tel. (069) 2123-3372, Fax (069) 21230753

Institut für Stadtgeschichte, Ihre Ansprechpartner: http://www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de/service/intern/ansprechpartner.html  

homepage-starting site - of the city archives here:

Institut für Stadtgeschichte, Städtisches Archiv: http://www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de/abteilungen/st_archiv.html   

University of Frankfurt
Psychoanalysis and the Holocaust
http://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/people/van_gelder/e_pa_so.html

"Do you know that over a period of twenty-five years, between 1922 and 1947, seventy million Europeans - men, women and children - have been uprooted, deported, killed?" -- Albert Camus, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech of 1957

Fränkische Landeszeitung (newspaper) article dated Nov. 27, 1946:

Headline: "Number of kidnapped persons"
Dateline: Frankfurt.
"All together 550,372 kidnapped persons were on 30 October in the US zone of Germany. In October 28,408 persons were returned to their homeland; 2,453,789 kidnapped persons were repatriated and 8,508 settled in Germany."

Hi Olga,
Need your help please. My dad was a displaced person who got immigration visa from the IRO Frankfurt/M Le al Office. Is there a data base with registration numbers I can do research? I believe he lived in the Frankfurt area. Is there any way to find out about his life in Frankfurt; 1944 to 1951? Thank you kindly, Andre

Frankfurt-Oder

Collegienstrasse 8 - 9
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Tel: 03 35 - 6 80 30 04
Fax: 03 35 - 6 80 27 73
http://www.frankfurt-oder.de/archiv/

Freiburg

City archives:
http://www.freiburg.de/1/0/1/aktionen/stadtarchiv/index.php
Street address:
Stadtarchiv Freiburg im Breisgau
Grünwälderstrasse 15 / Salzstrasse 18
79098 Freiburg
Tel: 0761/201-2701
Fax: 0761/201-2799
E-Mail: stadtarchiv@stadt.freiburg.de

http://www.frsw.de/littenweiler/links.htm

force labor at Freiburg
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=freiburg+zwangsarbeiter&vm=i&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt

Bundesarchiv Militärarchiv
Post box: 79024 Freiburg i. Br.
Street address: Wiesentalstr. 10
79115 Freiburg i. Br.
Tel.: 0761.478 17 - 0
E-mail: militaerarchiv@barch.bund.de
Internet: www.bundesarchiv.de

Dear Olga, I have read your site with great interest. I have just received my information from the national archives Australia. My mother was deported from Poland to Germany in 1943, and worked in Wittental, Freiburg as a farm domestic. The camp named on her documents was CAPD Freiburg. Was this a camp? Tania Benholz

Lithuanian sleeping accommodations in Freimannkaserne (camp)
Photo from Hearken Then Judge by Juozas Pasilaitis, submitted by Frank Passic

Hi Olga,
I was surprised and interested to find your email link and read the information about Baltic DP Camps in Germany. I am in the process of doing some research on our DP Camp in Friedrichsort, (Kiel) Germany where we lived for 5 years to 1949. I am writing a memoir of my early childhood, and wanted to get some more information about the camp. I have some pictures, but as I plan to visit Kiel next year, I would have liked some specific information about the site of the camp, or some pictures. Am I being realistic here? Yes, of course, I am interested in finding out more about my family history, and my own, as much of it is based on a child' memory. Can you tell me anything about your own background? I found the site very interesting and your own comments. Hope to hear from you, Veneranda Kreipans email: veneranda@sympatico.ca

Reply from: Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949:

Friedrichsort (not Friedrichsdorf) forms part of the city of Kiel.

There existed a Student Camp "Zur Hochbrücke" from (before?) November 1945 until at least June 1947 with the DPAC (Displaced Persons Assembly Centre) number 1218 and the UNRRA team number 101.

From July to November 1948 a camp in the Hipper Barracks (Kaserne) is listed with the DPACCS number 19/121. Probably it existed also before and after this time period.

City archives: Stadtarchiv Kiel, Rathaus
Fleethörn 9-17
24103 Kiel
Tel.: 49-431- 901-3421
Fax: 49-431- 901-63423
Email: stadtarchiv@lhstadt.kiel.de

Freising

July 14, 2008 Hello Olga,
 
It is an extraordinary story that brings me to contact you, two years after a message concerning the UNRRA team 306 was sent to Nicky Langley, who contacted Janie, who took up with you. To make the story short: renewing the roof of a house in the Bruges residential area, a series of photos were found, hidden in the inner roof protection.
After searching a while, I got the names of the team members: the confirmation came with the last message of Janie. These photos could be related with a nurse, former nun (The nun’s story), who integrated resistance during the war and the UNRRA after.

It is rather difficult to find out who put the photos on this place, so we are trying to identify the persons on the photos. Could you help me by presenting them on your DP site with the request to identify them?  In Bruges I am blocked by the “100 years” private protection law. So I am still hoping that one of the survivors can identify these persons and continue this exceptional story.

Could it be the beginning of a “after nun’s story”? Already many thanks.
 
François des Touches des.touches@skynet.be
Belgium

Hi Olga and François, As requested I have resized the photos I received yesterday and they are attached. I did a little more research and found this web-site that has a few photos from DP Camp Freising maybe you can see if any of your photos match up with these, the site is:  www.liebowitzes.com/belchatow/sitemap.htm janie :-)

 

Fulda

Bistumsarchiv Fulda Mailing address:
Postfach 147
36001 Fulda

Visitors address:
Bischöfliches Generalvikariat
Paulustor 5
36037 Fulda

City archive: Stadtarchiv Fulda
Palais Buttlar, Bonifatiusplatz 1-3
36037 Fulda

Dear Olga, My wife, also Olga, was in the Wildflecken camp in 1947 and then went to DP camp Fulda in 1949. From there to Bremerhaven where she got on a ship with her parents to come to the U.S. in 1949. I can't find any mention of a camp Fulda in my searches. Have you any info on it? Thank You, Steve Maurer, Arkansas

Olga, I came across your site, while looking for information about DP Camp Fulda. I was born in Wildflecken, my sister was born in Fulda, but sadly she died at 8 months. We were moved around to a number of camps, before coming to Australia in Aug 1949. Will be travelling to Germany, in August 2004. Have organized my visit to Wildflecken, will be staying at"am Dreistelz" for a couple of days. Also going to Fulda, and hope to find DP Camp site. Received information from Germany, about my sister's gravesite, so I will be heading there also. When I finish doing my personal journey, I return to Frankfurt, and start an 8 day tour of Germany. After that head to Poland and visit my relations. Any information you can give me regarding Fulda would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Teresa Adams, Brisbane, Australia.

"Funk Kaserne, a camp designated for processing applicants seeking to be settled abroad. They were billeted at Funk Kaserne while their medical examinations were undertaken. They reported back to the office, as directed, where a staff member, who spoke Ukrainian, whom they had met on arrival, informed them of appointments for medical examinations. After separate medical examinations by an English-speaking doctor who worked with an interpreter fluent in Ukrainian, they were given appointments for x-rays, which were repeated for Mr. _______, and the reports of those they returned to the camp office. They were told to remain at Funk Kaserne pending advice whether they would be accepted to come to Canada. Any forms completed at Funk Kaserne were filled out for them by office staff fluent in Ukrainian and English. In the latter language the [applicants] were not then literate." Taken from Federal Court of Canada http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fct/2001/2001fct138.html

Hello, any information of a camp Funk Kaserne Munich, Germany? I believe it was used as a resettlement camp. Regards, E. Hutchins

4/17/05 Dear Mrs. Kaczmar:
I was trying to find some information regarding a German DP camp where my father's family lived from around 1944 - 1950, and I came across your wonderful web site. My aunt told me the name of the camp was Funk Kaserne. During the time my dad's family lived in this camp, my aunt told me it was dedicated to Armenian refugees only. Based on the information I read on your site, it appears that this camp housed different immigrant groups at one time or another. Do you have any other information regarding this camp? Or do you know of any other sources that I may contact with respect to Funk Kaserne? Your attention to this matter is appreciated. Regards, John Grigorian

Fürth / Fuerth near Nürnberg; Jews

Landkreis Fürth
Kreisarchiv Fürth, Landratsamt für den Landkreis Fürth,
Stresemannplatz 11, 90768 Fürth

Fürth (kreisfreie Stadt)
Stadtarchiv Fürth, Schloshof 12, 90768 Fürth

This is the link to the Jewish museum Fürth:
Jüdisches Museum Franken http://www.juedisches-museum.org/ It has a English language link

Archives of Europe: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro1.html