Hagen-Kabel (British zone) Poles
Although the war was over, the conditions were very hard and he still lived at a camp in
Hagen-Kabel, Batheyer Street 49 and she at Kranbergstrasse 4. Our
information is very limited. My grandmother remarried to come to the USA
a few years later but Peter was always the love of her life and she died
in 1975 still wearing the ring he found to give her to wear as her wedding
ring. I feel a gaping hole in my life as I do not know much about our
ancestry, particularly his. If you can help me possibly find anyone in
his family or anything about his family I would be eternally grateful. His
family doesn't even know that we exist in this world. My grandmother did
not talk much about her horrific experience and because of the situation,
we just don't know much about him other than what I have told you and that
he possible had an aunt or sister that may have lived in Canada and that
he lived with his grandmother in Germany before he was captured. Please
help, any help would be wonderful.
When my grandmother was kidnapped and captured in 1942, she left behind a 7 year old son who was put up in an orphanage by her sisters who we later found out told him she abandoned him. If he is still alive, he would be about 71 years old and I feel he deserves to know the truth about what happened to his mother and that she loved him until the day she died on her 68th birthday in 1975. He apparently took off
after he turned 18 and no one really knows where he is now. I have no idea even where to begin my search for him. I think his name is Vladimir Kulisch; his father's name was Lvov Kulisch. The last
correspondence we have from him is in 1964 from a town called
Aktiubinsk, Thank again, your website is a godsend.
Leana Johns, cutehead02@yahoo.com
Copies of what documents I do have:
http://www.dvhh.org/timisquarters/registry/ljohns/index.htm,
Hagenburg, Lower Saxony (British zone)
Hahnenklee, #2816, Land Niedersachsen (British zone)
http://www.stadtarchiv.goettingen.de/chronik/1949_09.htm
Hello there, this is a long shot but I see on your web page you mention Hahnenklee. I have some postcards that I found recently that are stamped up on the back 'No.4 Leave Centre-Hahnenklee'. I guess it was for Allied soldiers as they are dated 1945, one is the Anzac club (For Aussies and New Zealanders???) I don't suppose you can shed any light on this can you? Like I say, it's a long shot and I hope you don't think me cheeky for asking! many thanks kate omara / Yorkshire, UK
Halle (British zone) Latvians, Poles
http://www.haltern.de/buergerservice
Stadt Haltern
Address: Verwaltungsgebäude Muttergottesstiege
Rochfordstrasse 1
45721 Haltern am See
Tel: 02364 / 933-123
Fax: 02364 / 933-265
E-Mail: Hauptamt@Haltern.de
Dear Olga,
Months ago I asked you for help in finding relatives of my parents Mykola Jemeljanenko And Weronika Alpina and I am very grateful to you for your advice. I have finally received information from the archives that you suggested. They were Ukrainian but living in Poland before WW2. My father lived in Maciejew and my mother in Lipno. During the war they were sent to Germany. My father was sent to Duisburg in 1943 then Nordhurn in 1945 then in 1946 to Bathurn Lingen DP Camp until 1948. My mother was in Datel Recklinghausen then Haltern, Muenster DP camps then worked at 18DPACS in Muenchen-Gladbach until 1948. I would appreciate it if you could give more information on those places. They migrated to Australia separately in 1950, My mother from Naples in Italy my father from Bremen, Germany so there is 2 years that they do not account for. Could you please place this on your web site again please Olga? Thank you in anticipation. Yours Sincerely, Anna McClure nee Jameljanenko. Contact me at pmcclure@iprimus.com.au. Sent to us by Anna McClure:
City archive: Stadtarchiv Monchengladbach
Aachoner Str. 2
41050 Monchengladbach
Germany
Tel: 49-2161-253241 fax: 49-2161-253259
E-mail: stadtarchiv@moenchengladbach.de
Web: http://www.archive.nrw.de/home.asp
12/2/04 Dear Mrs. Kaczmar,
I was amazed to find such a vast website about slave labour and displaced persons in WW2. A few years ago I recieved my father's dairy he kept during the time he was in Germany. In November 1944 about 50,000 men from Rotterdam (The Netherlands) were taken to Germany. My father was one of them. He was put to work at the Reichsbahn (railway). He had to repair bombed railway lines. The camp my father stayed in was not very strict, he almost could go as he pleased, but the food situation was very poor. In March 1945 he was liberated by American paratroopers. It was not until June 1945 that he was able to return home to Rotterdam and to the woman that would later become my mother. This is very, very short the story. About a year ago I visited the surroundings in which the camp was were my father lived during his stay in Germany. The camp was in Sythen, a small village, close to Haltern just north of the Ruhr area. By talking to some elderly men I found out about a camp in which Italians lived who worked on farms, but nothing about Dutchmen that worked on the railroad. The internet doesn't give me any information about where the camp might have been. I have also been in touch with some German authority in Haltern. He could tell me about a camp and about Dutchmen in Haltern, but about Sythen, he didn't know anything. I really like to visit the spot where the camp was. Perhaps you can help me. Thank you very much in advance, marja.levien@planet.nl The Netherlands.
Hamborn (British zone)
Hamburg has
it's own page, #1115, (British zone); Ukrainians; 1,200 DPs stayed at Deutscher
Ring insurance HQ., Poles, Balts, Yugoslavs, Jews
They undertake the desired genealogical and biographical research for you: If you would like to commission a search, contact us by e-mail (info@linktoyourroots.com), by telephone (0049/40/659090-833 or -834) or by post (Link to your Roots / Beschäftigung + Bildung e.V. / Besenbinderhof 37 / 20097 Hamburg / Germany).
City archive: http://www.hameln.com/kultur_und_freizeit/stadtarchiv.htm
Silke Schulte, Tel. (0 51 51) 2 02-4 39
Jonas Eberhardt, Tel. (0 51 51) 2 02-3 39
Fax: (0 51 51) 2 02-6 51
e-mail:stadtarchiv@hameln.de
Street address / Adresse: Osterstrasse 2 (Hochzeitshaus), 31785 Hameln
PO Box / Postanschrift: Postfach, 31784 Hameln
Hamm - is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany. It is located on the Lippe River, in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area.
Archive:
Stadtarchiv Hamm, Stadtverwaltung,
Mailing address: Postfach 2449, 59061 Hamm,
Street address: Altes Amtshaus Pelkum, Kamener Str. 177, 59077 Hammhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamm
City offices: http://www.hamm.de/
Tel: 02381/17-0
Fax: 02381/17-2971
Email: info@stadt.hamm.de
Hammook (British zone)
Hanau (US zone) 3,300 Lithuanians; 1,700 Latvians; 1,000 Estonians; 40 Balts, Ukrainians
From Church World Service brochure Dps are People 1948:
The Hanau Vocational Training Center for Displaced Persons includes the following work shops.
Handicraft Shop, where the following work is taught:
Knitting, embroidering, fashion-designing, feather-and-down articles, hatmaking, weaving, fine wood-work, fine leatherwork, filigree, cermics, cosmetics and hairdressing.
Tailor's Shop, where the manufacturer of men's clothing and ladies' dresses and cutting are taught.
Cobler's Shop, where the manufacture and repair of natural and orthopedic shoes are taught, by hand as well as by machinery.
Carpenter's Shop, where all sorts of wood-work is taught, particularly the making of furniture.
Mechanics, where the locksmith's, turner's lever and welding work are taught as well as work at the installations of gas-and water supply.
Smith's Shop, where all possible forging work is taught.
Plumber's Shop, where the manufacture of tinwork, household utensils and tiles are taught.
Garage, where the repair of cars is taught.
Electrician's Workshop, where all sorts of work with high voltage and particularly installations are taught.
Radio-technical Workshop, where repair and installation of wireless-sets are taught.
Technical designing and drawing.
English classes.
Practical work is given in the workshops under the guidance of well trained foremen-instructors.
Lithuanians in woodworking shops and taking locksmiths' courses in DP camp Hanau
Photo from Hearken Then Judge by Juozas Pasilaitis, submitted by Frank Passic.
DPs turned to religion as soon as they began to come together after the war,
holding services everywhere, from dusty fields to dimly lit basements. Poles
at Hanau constructed a Roman Catholic church in a former Wehrmacht cavalry
stable. The overflow crowd was led by a priest who spent 3 1/2 years in
Dachau. Photo: UNRRA & M. Wyman
Olga,
Well translation of my letter from archives in Hanua did find my father-in-law, Stefan Brejniak, listed as living there and he worked for the Bader Brewery............We had a little joke and reckon it was NOT as a forced labourer !!! He liked to drink !! My mother in law never knew he worked there, she did not know him then. I am also emailing NARA to see if they have any records of the camp, Hanau said they may have. Apparently there is a book about the forced labourers of Hanau scheduled to be published next year. Regards Debbie Brejniak/ Australia.
Hannover, Land Niedersachsen (British zone) has its own page
Hann, Münden, #291, same as Hannoversch-Meunden,
Hannoversch-Münden, Land Niedersachsen (British zone), mostly
Polish,
In Hann. Münden existed a Polish DP camp from about August 1945 to June 1950 situated in the Kurhessen Barracks (German name Kurhessenkaserne). The camp had the DPAC (Displaced Persons Assembly Centre) number 291 from August 1945 to June 1946 (and probably further on). From September 1947 to May 1949 the camp had the DPACS number 49/291 and from May 1949 to June 1950 simply the DPACS number 49. The UNRRA team 223 was in charge of the camp from March to September 1946. The IRO Area time 704 was in charge of the camp from September 1947 to June 1950. Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949:
City archives: Stadtarchiv
Hann. Münden
Schlossplatz 5
34346 Hann. Münden
Germany
Tel.: 49-5541-75347
Fax: 49-5541-75400
Web: http://www.hann.muenden.de
Hello from Brussels,
I make a biography about the Polish grandfather of my wife, who was soldier in the 1st Polish armoured Division of General Maczek.
Also I'm looking for some information: the grandfather saved the lives of three children in Ter Apel (The Netherland) between 14/4/45 and 19/4/45.
He received present from the family, with address in La Haye. This address doesn't exist any more.
I would like to know how is it possible to find, without names, the basis town of these children's? Netherlanders DPS?? Red Cross archives in NL?? Best regards. Gilles LAPERS
Harth (British zone)
Hasenhecke, (U.S. zone) See Kassel archives.
Reply: Hasenhecke lies near the town of Kassel and is today a suburb of Kassel. See Kassel archives. Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.
Haste
Dear Olga Kaczmar
I was looking for a DP camp in Germany called HASTE by OSNABRüCK.
Can you help me? Irene Schuhmacher-Reidelr
Haste today is a suburb of Osnabrueck, Lower Saxony, former British
Zone. To my knowledge, the DP camp situation in Osnabrueck is not well
researched. I only know that there was a Nazi Arbeitserziehungslager at
Ohrbeck that after the war became a DP camp. Maybe Michael Gander from Osnabrueck
University could give you some hints: mgander@uos.de
Sincerely, Stefan Schroeder
State Archives at
Osnabrueck (Niedersüchsisches Staatsarchiv) Osnabrück,
Schlöstr. 29,
D-49074 Osnabrueck, Germany
Tel: +49(541) 33162-0
Fax: +49(541) 33162-62
E-Mail: poststelle@staatsarchiv-os.niedersachsen.de
Archives of Europe: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro1.html
