German DP camps M:

Mainz

Photos at United Nations archives:
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 Gouy photolibr@un.org, Photo Librarian, United Nations

City archives: Rheinallee 3 B
55116 Mainz
0 61 31 - 12 21 78
0 61 31 - 12 35 69
http://www.mainz.de/kultur/index.htm

Manheim

City archive:
Collini-Center
68161 Mannheim
Rufen Sie vor Ihrem Besuch an
Tel: 06 21 / 29 37 139
http://www.mannheim.de/internetrathaus/stadtarchiv/service.html

City museum
C 5, Zeughaus
68159 Mannheim

RE: Polska Kompania Wartownicza 4227 Labor Service Co.
Seeking information as to the subject army unit in which my dad, now age 75 years young served as military police with the US Army in Eberstadt with the 97th Labor Supv. Co. from 1945 until emigrating to New York from Butzbach, Germany in September, 1949. My dad was at Manheim Kaefertal 7711 Military Labor Service Training Center Koscuisko from 1945 to 1946. I would appreciate it if any one has any information to please contact me. Thank you so much. P.S.Your web site is not only informative, but very helpful. AGemstone, AGemstone7801855@aol.com

Marburg

Stadtbüro Marburg
Frauenbergstrasse 35
35039 Marburg

e-mail: stadtbuero@marburg-stadt.de
http://www.marburg.de
Tel: 0 64 21/2 01-8 01 or 8 02
Fax: 064 21/2 01-8 28

We visited the Marburg administration building, and you are absolutely correct about the documents. I got copies of my Dad's and Mom's papers. We found the 2 places Mom and Dad lived at from '47 to '51 from the addresses on the papers. Marburg in late '40s and early '50s was a farming area. Marburg is absolutely beautiful - just like a typical German village with the fancy buildings you see in the school books in the 50s and 60s. Its a German college town now and I believe there are a lot of millionaires living there because there's so many nice cars and houses and the people are well dressed, etc. A Sucharew

Marienthal, #2933, Land Niedersachsen (British Z.) mostly Polish

9/26/06 Dear Olga,
My mother Krystyna grew up in the DP camp Marienthal Horst. I am now undertaking a Phd research project which will look at memories people have of the Polish DP camps. As such, I would like to find contact information for people who spent time at the Marienthal Horst camp who would be prepared to be interviewed. I am also looking for more information on this camp in general - could you advise any further links? Many thanks and best regards, Tamara West, United Kingdom T.West@mmu.ac.uk

Marktredwitz, Latvian

City archive:
Egerstr. 2
95615 Marktredwitz

I, with my family, lived at the Marktredwitz -- Oct 3 1945 -- Sept 9 1947, please contact: Silvia Wolff . Sand1999@cornhusker.net

http://www.wittmund.de/ Municiple offices: Kurt-Schwitters Platz I, 26409 Wittmund
Tel: 04462/983-0
e-mail: rathaus@wittmund.kdo.de

Stadt archive e-mail to: Hier Klicken elke.luerkens@stadt.wittmund.de
or Tel.: 04462-983-220

3/21/05 Dear Olga
I am young man from Poland; my name is Jacek. I am trying to find my grandpa. His name is Jan vel. Johan Voigt, born 1920, Danzig. I know one more thing about him: he was in camp MARX, Wittmund to 1949. Is there any way to get something about him? My Grandmother was in this camp too. Her name is Wladyslawa Kiermasz, from Sosnowiec. Maybe someone remember her and his persons? Thanks. Jacek Chmiel, jacekchmiel@gazeta.pl / Szczecin, Poland


The little girl on the photo is my mother, Janina Kiermasz. The woman at left side is her godmother, Kwasniewska. She went to USA . Maybe is possible to find her? She can help me, I think. THANK YOU AND KIND REGARDS from Jacek T. Chmiel.

City archives: Stadtarchiv Kassel, Marstallgebaeude
Wildemannsgasse 1
34117 Kassel
Germany
Phone: 49-561-787-4050 or 4013
Fax: 49-561-787-4060

March 22, 2007 Dear Olga!
I was for short time in DP camp Mattenberg-Kassel. There was Polish, Lithuanian, Yugoslavian and some Russians. Anyone with information, please contact me. Sincerly R. Polchaninov, email: rpochaninov@verizon net.

 

My husband was born in 1946 in Mattenberg-lager, near Kassel Germany. His birth name was Janis Libergs, his mother was Lucija Libergs. He was put into Bad Aibling orphanage at age 3, then sent to USA for adoption in 1950. His mother was sent to a TB sanitorium in Amberg, Bavaria, where she died in 1950. Do you have any other information about Mattenberg? My husband has terminal kidney cancer and is now in home hospice. I am trying to find out any other information about his past. Please let me know if you have any information or know where I might search. Thank you, Kitty Thvedt, kt71424@cox.net Tucson, AZ

A place Mattenberg is not listed in a book containing all places in Germany in 1949. But in the city Kassel exists a street named Mattenbergstrasse. So perhaps there was the camp your are searching. Wolfgang.Strobel.Bonn@t-online.de
Update: This camp existed in 1946, was situated in Kassel-Oberzwehren and that at that time the UNRRA team 77 worked in this camp. Wolfgang Strobel

Mecklenbeck (British zone)

Meerbeck, Lower Saxony, (British zone); entire village was the camp; mostly Latvians

Meerbeck mentioned on this postage site: http://www.sossi.org/exile/dpmail.htm

Latvian Immigration History Research Center: http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/latvian.htm

Mein

Meinleus (U.S. zone) Russian Boy Scout troops in camp.

Memmingen airport (U.S. zone), UNRRA Team 155,

Lithuanians published a daily news called the 'Mintis', Russian Boy Scout troops in camp.

City Archvie: Stadtarchiv Memmingen
Ulmer Strasse 19
D-87700 Memmingen
Mail: Postfach 1853, D-87688 Memmingen

Tel: +49 (8331) 850 143
Fax: +49 (8331) 850 149
E-mail: stadt@memmingen.de
Homepage: http://www.memmingen.de/

5/17/05 Hi,
Sometime in 1942 my father was taken as a forced labourer. He was in Zagreb. As I understand it he tried to escape a couple of times,once by attempting to walk over the mountains into Switzerland. In 1944 he was in Memmingen, Germany. I don't know if he was in a camp or not, the photographs indicate that he may have had some sort of autonomy. Can you suggest any camps that might be possibilities. Thanks Paul matosic@speed-mail.co.uk

Meschede (British zone), Yugoslavs

Mesmerode, Lower Saxony (British zone)

Mettman, Poles

Michelsdorf (White Russian), 1947

Box 15 Declassifield NND 993068 file #XE257685
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified_records/record_group_319_irr_case_files_impersonal_files_1940_1976.html

Minden city home page http://www.minden.de/
archives: http://www.archive.nrw.de/archive/script/archiv.asp?nr=316 sites in German

Kommunalarchiv Stadt Minden und Kreis Minden-Lübbecke
Tonhallenstr.7
32423 Minden
Tel: 05 71 - 8 94 75
Fax: 05 71 - 8 94 75
http://www.minden.de/sites/kultur/kommunal.html

How can I find information regarding my birth in either Minden or Menden DP Camp which ever is next to Hanover. I'm assuming its Hanover because Minden was near Hanover but now I know different. Until I saw your website I did not realize that there were two DP camps, similar in spelling and both had British presence. We came to the United States on 1950 (Boston). Julian Palinski PalinskiJ@si.edu

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Archives Record Group: PAG 4 Box 18-22: District 5: Mittenwald, Feldafing, Munich, Leipheim

DP CAMPS, 1940-50 Abroad. One year's work of the Camp of Ukrainian emigrants (DP's) at Mittenwald. 72p. 22cm., Language--E-G. Mittenwald, 1947, at Shevchenko Scientific Society Library

Plast Ukrainian scouting activity in Mittenwald: http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1999/309923.shtml

Mittenwald 1946-1951: commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Displaced Persons Camps in MIttenwald, Germany. Warren, Michigan. Published by the Society of Former Residents of the DP Camps in Mittenwald, Germany, 2001. 753 p. In Ukrainian and English. Contains numerous photographs. Avail. at Shevchenko Scientific Society Library.

Archive: Marktarchiv Mittenwald,
Dammkarstr. 3,
82481 Mittenwald

Olga,
Attached is a picture of a few men in the Mittenwald DP camp. My step-father is in the front row, far left. He was one of the lucky ones who were able to work for an American company involved in the reconstruction of Germany. He was able to get a good food ration and shared it with my mother.

The DPs only got between 1500-2000 calories of food each day -- it kept them from starving but not much else. He also was able to get fresh fruit, mostly apples and oranges, which was a great change from the daily split pea soup the DPs got.

My step-father built the chapel in Mittenwald, and that is where he and my mother were married shortly before we emigrated to the U. S.

If you want to post this on your website, that would be fine - maybe someone will recognize one of their relatives. My step-father was a DP from Lithuania.

Olga, you have been a good source of information, and I want to thank you for your words of encouragement. Mari Sutton suttonall@comcast.net

Olga,
My fathers family emigrated from Ukraine during WW II and spent a number of years in the DP camp in Mittenwald.Daniel J Pohoreckyj dpohoreckyj@keyspanenergy.com

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.

The town Muenchen-Gladbach is today named Moenchengladbach. Submitted by: Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949:

City archives: Stadtarchiv Mönchengladbach
Aachener Str. 2
41050 Mönchengladbach
Germany
Tel.: 49-2161-253241
Fax: 49-2161-253259
Email: stadtarchiv@moenchengladbach.de
Web: http://www.archive.nrw.de/home.asp?stadta-moenchengladbach

Monchehof (U.S. zone), near Kassel; Russian Boy Scout troops in camp.

Dear Olga, My father, Rostislav Polchaninoff, has been in contact with you regarding Russian DP Camps. This is a photograph of a January, 1948, Christmas  Pageant "Snow White" in the Russian DP camp in Moenchehof near Kassel, Germany. Thank you, Ludmila Polchaninoff-Selinsky

 

Moschendorf-Hof

9/4/04 I'm looking for information Josef Kramer who might have been in this camp, we have some information that he was not released until around 1950? Any information would be helpful. Thanks, Jackie Jackileen R. Rains. jackileenrains@sympatico.ca

Mühlenteich /Muehlenteich (British zone)

Mühlhausen

Stanislaw Pastusiak and Olga Minakowa, my parents married twice while in DP Camps in Germany: one was a civil registration marriage in Mühlhausen in Thuringen (which I have a copy of); the second marriage took place in Ulm (it was a group wedding in a stable converted into a church by a Polish priest), how would go about finding out anything about this and hope to get a copy of it, where would these records be held? My family were in these dp-camps Mühlhausen, Ulm, Bissingen/Teck and Altenstadt between 1945 and 1949. These places were in the American zone about June 1945. Any ideas or help would be gratefully appreciated.
Julia Dyer

Archives:
Stadtarchiv Muelheim
Aktienstrasse 85
45473 Muelheim a.d. Ruhr
Germany

Muelheim 1933-1945 text in German

Muelheim-Ruhr 1933- 1945 text in German

City archive- Stadtarchiv
http://www.kulturbetrieb.de/stadtarchiv.htm
http://www.kulturbetrieb.de/archiv/archiv.htm
E-Mail: stadtarchiv@stadt-mh.de

Müllheim, Baden, Wurtemburg

Hi Olga, My in-laws were in a camp in Müllheim Germany; my father in law was a policeman in 1948 in the camp. I have attached a photo of Mullheim i B.,Bahnof (railroad station). (Mullheim is what is on the postcard and also how it is spelled on their passport. ) I sent off an enquiry to the stadtarchic@stadt.mh.de and got the reply that it is not in Mullheim an der Ruhr but to try Mullheim, Baden, Wurtemburg. stadt@muellheim.de which said they have no information and that the photo is indeed of the Railway Station and to their knowledge there was no DP camp located at the station......another dead end! Debbie Brejniak, kolega@speedlink.com.au Australia.

München / Munich has its own page, (US zone)

Münster or Muenster,

#3152 (Poles) , #3161 (Poles, Balts), #3210 (Poles, Balts Yugoslavs), #31/161, (sometimes written incorrectly as Munster), North Rhine-Westphalia, British Zone, 4 DP Camps in June 1945: Camp V1, army barracks at Hoher Heckenweg, (former POW camp Stalag VIF), closed in July 1946. Camp V3, army barracks in Gremmendorf, closed in August 1945. Camp V9, schools, private houses and army huts in Mecklenbeck, closed November/December 1945. Camp V20, wooden huts in Mecklenbeck (former civil workers camp), closed November / December 1945. Münster has it's own page.

Munsterlager (no umlaut) , Niedersachsen (British zone)

Municple offices: Stadt Munster
Wilhelm-Bockelmann-Str. 32
29633 Munster
Tel: +49 5192 130-0
Fax: +49 5192 130-215
Email: stadtverwaltung@munster.de
Internet: www.munster.de

2/21/06
I really hope you can help my family. My mother's maiden name is GONCHAROV. On her birth certificate it says she was born in Muenster oerrel, kreis soltau, dp camp 39. My grand parents names were Frieda & Wasyl Goncharov . Can you tell me anything about this camp or my family? I looked through your site and couldn't find anything about this camp. I would really appreciate all your help. Thank you Kathy



On 3/26/08

While in Germany during the second world war Mrs. Irene Ozarchuk nee Kowal gave birth to a baby girl, Olga. When Olga was a few weeks old, she got sick and was taken to the hospital. The nurse which admitted the baby said to Mrs. Ozarchuk,  "Oh my name is the same Irene Kowal (Canadian Ukrainian). A few days later, the nurse brings the pillow and blanket of the baby and said the baby died.
The mother did not see the baby after her death. As the Russian soldiers were moving the people, she did not leave her barrack. All these years she presumed her daughter was dead until a few years ago she receives this picture stamped at Sydney Australia and at the back it is written in Polish: "Olga is a well and beautiful lady." No other information is given. So we presume Olga was sold as a baby in Germany because at that time they were stealing children and selling them. We presume this is the baby Olga, grown up and somebody knew about Mrs. Ozarchuk because the enveloppe was sent to her to Northam. That is why were are trying to locate her. The hospital was Soltau. The mother was in a displaced person's Camp named Munster. (Click photo to enlarge.)

We wrote to Germany and we received Olga's birth certificate but there is no record of her death. The hospital destroyed their records after 30 years so we couldn't get the information of when she was discharged and when they took Olga from the hospital.

We went to the Salvation Army police missing persons unit, but they all say they cannot help us. So we have tried different channels but to no avail. The mother is elderly and not too well, therefore, I would like to see them reunited because I really feel this is her daughter. If not then al least we'll clear the case. So if you have any further suggestion I would appreciate to hear from you. Thank you kindly for your time.
Sr. Muriel  Zemliak / Ozarchuk family, mzemliak2@bigpond.com

 

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