Displaced Persons -
German DP camps K
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Kabel / Hagen, N. Rhine / Westphalia (British zone), mostly Poles
Kapellen
Karlsfeld, some Ukrainian documentation at Shevchenko Scientific Society Library Karlsruhe, Ukrainians
wars end: http://www.grochowiak.de/lang/kriegsende1945/start.html City archive: http://www.hbg.ka.bw.schule.de/publikat/ka45/ Researching forced labor in the city archives: Zwangsarbeit in der Kirche text in German
Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe
Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe
Address: Wildemannsgasse 1 D-34117 Kassel,
Phone: (49)-0561-787-4050 http://www.stadt-kassel.de/cms05/dienstleistungen/031082/index.html
Kirchenbuchamt Kassel (ev.)
10/30/06 Dear Olga, He said he worked in the motor pool and delivered some of the mail. One of the cities he mentioned was Kassel. He befriended a young Polish woman who was working in the hospital. She told him she knew her parents had been killed, but she did not know the fate of the rest of her family. She mentioned she had a sister. He started looking. As he traveled as part of his duties he started looking in the various Displaced Persons Camps. He actually broke some of the rules as he was looking. He eventually found the sister and checked her out of the DP Camp and took her back to the sister in the hospital. The reunion was VERY emotional and happy. I have no idea of the sisters' names, but if any of this sounds familiar to anyone, I would love to hear more. Thank you, Jim, Elverta, California, USA j jakaupanger1@yahoo.com
11/7/06 Hi Olga,
2) Did a camp in Hohenciken or Hohenkurchen exist? Also what was the name of the displaced persons camp near Kassel called? Would that camp have any records? Thank you for taking the time to read this email. John.Wojtowicz@wojkelly.com.au
Kastel
We have photo # UN22340: Ukrainiens DPs in Mainz-Kastel IRO Camp, US zone of Germany Please let me know if you would be interested in obtaining hi-res scans ($3 each) or prints ($ 7 each) of them. Best regards, Clara Gouyphotolibr@un.org Photo Librarian, United Nations Archive: http://www.studienkreis-widerstand-1933-45.de/archiv/xxinfo/he54.html Forced labor: http://www.steffes-eschborn.de/historisches/ns-zeit_zwangsarbeiter/kpd-frauen/body_kpd-frauen.html "25 Ukrainians assaulted two Soviet representatives, pelting them with potatoes and stones, when they came to Kastel camp to repatriate the Ukrainians to Russia. A Ukrainian 24-year old man hanged himself, leaving a note, explaining his family had been deported to Siberia and he preferred death to falling under Soviet control." (Wyman, page 83)
Stadarchiv Kempten
7/11/05 7/2/07 My father lived in the Kempten DP camp
from 1945 to May, 1949. I would like to ask any readers who knew
or knew of Jonas Girdziunas Kevelaer, North Rhine, (British zone) Kiel, #1218, Schleswig Holstein (British zone) , Poles, Balts
http://www.uni-kiel.de/IfW/wia/wiaein.htm The clippings collected amounted to 800,000 by the end of 1933. They were moved to another location during the Second World War and thus survived the war. The War Archive, which was left in the Institute, was not so fortunate - it was destroyed during the bombing of Kiel.
Elisabeth Flieger Phone: +49+431-8814-321 Email: elisabeth.flieger@ifw.uni-kiel.de
Christa Seeck Kirdorf
There was a DP camp located in Kirdorf next to Bad Homburg v.d.H. This was a relatively small camp populated mostly with Russians who were connected to the Solidatisten political party and its publication Possev. The camp was disbanded in 1954 or 1955. Nicholas Burlakoff Thank you for this information. I was not aware of forced labor history in Kirdorf. The barracks of the DP camp were referred to by locals as "Hitler's barracks." They may have been the forced labor camp originally, since they were located at the edge of town near the forest and the cemetery. The Kirdorf website does have reminiscences of French wartime workers among he farmers. Nicholas Burlakoff
For DP camp photos, see Katherine Hulme collection at the Beineke Library, Yale University: Box 44 folder 656 Kleinheubach and Aschaffenburg camps 1945-47 Kloster / Kneck, Poles Kloster Reute, French zone, see Jordanbad Knechtsteden, N. Rhine, (British zone), Poles Koblenz
PO Box / Postfach: 201551 56015 Koblenz street address: Burgstrasse 1 Altstadt 56068 Koblenz
Tel: (0261) 129 2641 http://www.koblenz.de/bildung/stadtarchiv/index.html
Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz
Dear Olga,
König Ludwig (British zone) Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad)
We have been looking through the many pages on the net for information as to the possibility of tracing immediate relatives of my surviving father, who left on the last kindertransport from Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) Germany. The family name is Lacks von Blaustein. Our grandmothers maiden name was Charlotte Rosinski and grandfather Moritz Lacks they lived at General Litzman Strasse, Konigsberg, East Prussia. We know our grandmother had a sister, and it is the sisters children, and grandchildren, who we would like to trace. Undoubtedly, you have many such requests, and should you not be able to offer any direct help, would appreciate guidance in seeking this quest. Most sincerely yours, Suzanne and Karen (nee Lacks) / London, UK. Köln Koeln - Junkersdorf / Kohln - Junkersdorf, suburb of Cologne / Küln (British zone), Poles
Forced labor: Zwangsarbeiter in kirchlichen Einrichtungen
Initially, after the Polish Defensive War of 1939 most Polish high-ranking officers were imprisoned there. The staff officers were imprisoned in the casemates and the generals in one of the forts. The lower-ranking officers were imprisoned in the lower levels of the fortress. Despite harsh conditions in the living chambers, the officers were granted with relative freedom and had a part of the fortress gardens at their disposal. Apart from Antoni Szylling and Tadeusz Piskor, who were imprisoned in Murnau, all Polish army commanders taken by the Germans in 1939 were held there. After the Fall of France in 1940 most of Polish officers were transferred to either Oflag VIIA Murnau or Oflag VIII E Johannisbrunn, while their place was occupied by French officers. The camp was surrendered to the Red Army May 9 1945. In 1945 the Basilica Wechselburg property was confiscated by the Soviet Army and later turned into a hospital. In 2000 five monks from the Benedictine convent Ettal/Bavaria came to Wechselburg and since then it is a monastery again.
12/25/06
34497 Korbach Olga, I'm looking for information on Feldafing, Bad Reichenhall, Korbach and Ludwigsfeld. Thanks. S.Bycko
WHAT A WONDERFUL SERVICE you're giving to people. I'm looking for a camp called Korrygin which my mother says was part of Mittenwald. Would you have any information on thie. Thank you so much. Halyna Mordowanec Regenbogen / Canada
"On April 14 the whole of 34 Armoured Brigade moved into Germany and 9 RTR became responsible for part of Kreis Bentheim and Ahaus, with the same responsibilities of battlefield clearance, route reconnaissance, and security. The move took us just inside Germany, some thirty miles north east of our previous locations. RHQ established itself in the fifty year old castle at Bentheim, A at Emsburen, B at Gronau, C at Schuttdorf. As the days passed the squadron ammunition dumps became larger and the maps more heavily marked with chinagraph. Patrols roamed the area in an attempt to control Displaced Persons (formerly German slave labour of many nationalities). These had become the vagabonds of Germany, eating, sleeping, and taking revenge as they wished. In an attempt to control this gypsy life the Ems River was made a stop line where all D.P's attempting to cross were diverted to proper reception camps and preparations were made to seal off Germany by closing the Dutch/German frontier." Submitted by: Alan Newark Scotland
I have spent a great deal of time looking at your website and find it heart breaking and interesting. I have looked everywhere for a reference to a United Nations Refugee Camp by the name of Kurhessenkaserne in Germany. Have you ever heard of it? I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you Mary Toma - Polish / Australia Evangelist Church archives: Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck
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Dear
Olga: In looking through my files, I found I had Xeroxed the
cover of a Lithuanian DP camp magazine, "Dypukas" dated August 10,
1946 from the Kempten, Germany camp. In Lithuanian they add different
endings to nouns depending upon how the word is used. Most have
an -as ending; which turns into an -o ending as used at the top.
This is the type of stuff the Balzekas Museum has lots of: DP camp
books, magazines and publications. I've seen lists of names, too
there. 
