DP Camps in Germany He

Heckershausen

Great site...trying to research the camp my mother was in. No luck...outside Kassel, Germany and it was called Hausenhecker. Perhaps my spelling is wrong. Can you help me please? Regards, Gloria Weicher /Montreal, Canada

I suggest it was Heckershausen, close to Kassel. I will look for more detail. Sometimes it is the spelling...
Your friend Christof / Germany.

Heerte (British zone) see also Brunswick, Polish, gypsies,

In Heerte was a Polish DP camp under D.P.A.C.S. Lichtenberg, at least until December 1949. The I.R.O. area Team 906 (I.R.O. = International Refugee Organisation of the United Nations) was responsable for the camp. All this information is in my book "Displaced Persons Mail Paid" that is mentioned on your website.
Heerte as well as Lichtenberg today form parts of the town Salzgitter, situated in the Land (State) Niedersachsen.
Wolfgang Strobel

DP camp 37 Heerte was under the British zone. See also Brunswick/ Braunschweig.		10/26/07 Hi Olga, Interesting web pages and a good source of information. I have two questions and hoping that you may have some info: #1 My parents who have been deceased a long time ago, never really spoke about the past very much so and when I recently reviewed some documents, I have never been able to understand some of the wording stamped on these documents. The word “Gypsy” was stamped on the ID card so one would assume that maybe we came from a gypsy band. #2 Going through some of my father’s belongings, I discovered this metal ID tag which had the following listed:   Kr Gef  Dulac 126      8261 Do you have any more info ? Thank You Bob Semkowski bobsemkowski@sympatico.ca Toronto, Canada

 

Heidenheim

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Archives Record Group: PAG 4 Box 3: District 1: Assembly Centers and Area Teams, Heidenheim, Ulm, Stuttgart

Heidenheim - Kreisarchiv (war archives)
http://www.landkreis-heidenheim.de/d-kreisarchiv.html

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

County archives: Kreisarchiv Landkreis Heidenheim, Landratsamt
Felsenstr. 36
89518 Heidenheim an der Brenz
Germany
Tel.: 49-07321-321-294
Fax: 49-7321-321-450

City archives: Stadtarchiv Heidenheim an der Brenz, Rathaus
Grabenstr. 15
89522 Heidenheim an der Brenz
Tel.: 49-7321-327395
Fax: 49-7321-327505

Kreiselman family: my father, his wife & child have been at Heidenheim camp. Later my father left to Israel with his child while the mother didn't joined them. According to a document signed by the Jewish committee, the mother gave up her child. We have not any idea what happened to mother, where did she went and why she decided to give up her child. Do you have any suggestion in which archiv it is possible to find more information about. Thank you zipora katz

Good morning, I am writing the story of Jakob Goldberg , dp in Heidenheim in 1947. I have got a letter from him. Jakob Goldberg was an immate in Heidenheim and, in this typed letter, dated April 1947, 25, he is explaining that he lost all his family and asks for the creation of the state of Israel. It's very coherent and I believe that many others immates of the camp could have done the same because it's a typed letter. If you know anything about the life in this camp in 1947, let it me know please. I have different publishing companies in France. Best regards Nicolas Philippe

Heiligenhafen, #1226, Schleswig Holstein (British zone)

Helpup (British zone)

Herbern (British zone)

Herford, 3 camps (British zone)

Hersbruck

You have forgotten the one in Hersbruck (near Nuernberg). Its name was Camp Kathann. It was converted from a concentration camp, and it was operated by UNRRA and later by IRO. All residents were Latvians. A former DP from Amberg and Hersbruck (Latvian), Skitt

Stadtarchiv Hersbruck
Postfach 5 40
91214 Hersbruck

City archive: Stadtverwaltung Bad Hersfeld - Technisches Rathaus - Stadtarchiv
Landecker Strasse 11
36251 Bad Hersfeld
Germany
Phone: 49-6621-201-311
Fax: 49-6621-201-348
eMail: stadtarchiv@bad-hersfeld.de

Bad Hersfeld today: http:://www.bad-hersfeld.de

Dear Olga, my father was at camp Hersfeld, a slave labour camp. I'm trying to find more information about this camp. Also he was a DP, how can I find out where he was. He was Polish and at camp Hersfeld in Bremen-Grohn in Germany. I very much appreciate any information you can give me.........Marianne

Hersfeld and Bremen-Grohn are different towns. Bremen-Grohn was an embarcation center in the harbor of Bremen (American enclave) for DPs about to emigrate. Wolfgang Strobel author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949:

UNNRA Team 715:
J. Loeser
S. Valenducq
R. Stern
R. Ragot
C. Baudry
V. Estaba

Hessen German site, (U.S. zone)

Hesslingen Transit Camp - village of Hesslingen in the District of Gifhorn, near Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, southeast of Bremen

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

Heufeld

Dear Olga,
I am looking for information on which camps held Yugoslovians from Heufeld or other German towns who were in detainment camps in Germany after WW II. Thanks for your help. Sonja Rieger

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