Sachsenhausen (USSR zone)
Salzgitter, #2917,
#2932, Land Niedersachsen (British zone) mostly Polish
Sande
I was in Hameln, Bockhorn, Sande, Emden DP camps. Do you have any info?
John
This was the chapel in Sande DP camp. Today it is one of the top medical centers in Germany. John
Sandplatz
By 1946, that camp, on a riverside location in or near naval dockyards was a largely Jewish DPs' repatriaton camp and c/o UNRRA...alan newark
Saouglinscheim in Augsburg, see inquiry page 1
Saulgau (French zone); Russian boy scout troops
Scheinfeld (U.S.
zone) Lithuanian
Schieder (British
zone)
Schleissheim (US zone); Russian boy scout troops
Schleswig-Holstein;
#1205, Latvians, Poles, (British zone)
English
site 1,
http://www.rootsweb.com/~deuscn/index.htm
map http://feefhs.org/maps/gerw/gw-schl.html
German site index
D entry http://www.geschichte.schleswig-holstein.de/vonabiszindex.htm
archives http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SCN/sh-e.html
forced labor German site 1 http://www.zwangsarbeiter-schleswig-holstein.de/
forced labor German site 2 http://www.vvn-bda.de/schleswig-holstein/gutachten.htm
more forced labor searches http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=schleswig-holstein+zwangsarbeiten
Book by Dölger,
Karsten, "Polenlager
Jägerslust". Polnische "Displaced Persons" Schleswig-Holstein
1945-1949," 15,5 x 23,5 cm, 404 Seiten, 2000,
broschiert, ISBN:3-529-02210-1, 31 Euro
Hi Olga, I am trying to trace Olga Buczko or Bernard Leslie who were engaged in 1945 / 1946 . Olga was in the DP camp Schleswig-Holstein. Are there any records of which British soldiers or regiments were at the English Unit, and where the displaced persons went from there? Olga may have travelled on the Castell Bianco to Australia. Thank you - Tanya Richards
Schloss, Germany
Schloss Gottorf (British
zone)
photos
and history http://www.missunde.hhm.de/schleswig.htm
museum and city archives http://www.specki.de/freizeit/schloss_gottorf.html
museen in Hessen http://www.rp8.de/freizeit/museen.htm
Schloss Langenzelle
Good morning:
I am looking for anyone who may have come in contact with Canadians who worked for UNRRA:
- Ethel Ostry
was the principla welfare
worker in Camp Glasenbach and the Director of Camp at Schloss
Langenzelle. Her final assignment
was in Camp Fohrenwald;
- Mrs J Henshaw
was with Ethel a Camp Camp Fohrenwald and
later Director of the International Children's centre on
Chiemsee.
- Giske Miss
Francis.
Schloss Neuhaus (British Zone):
State archives: Staatsarchiv
für Schwaben:
D 8858 Neuburg a.d. Germany
Schongau (U.S. zone)
Stadt Schongau (City of Schongau)
Address letters to: Postfach 1348 86953 Schongau
Street location / Hausanschift :
Münzstrasse 1-3
86956 Schongau, Germany
city museum and archives address:
Stadtmuseum / Stadtarchiv Schongau
Galerie im Stadtmuseum Schongau
Christophstr. 3-57, 86956 Schongau
e-mail: museum-archiv@schongau.de
Tel: 08861-20602
Fax: 08861-2597670
Schoningen, Northeim;
Schöningen (Schoeningen /
Schoningen), city ... Helmstedt
Olga:
My father, his parents, one brother, and two sisters are WWII survivors (non-Jewish) who were taken from Poland and put to work on farms in Germany. I am trying to track their history (my father was young and can't recall names of places they were at, other than Fliegerhorst). Two of my aunts were born in Schoningen, in 1943 and 1945. Can you tell me the names of DP camps in/around Schoningen during that time? Thank you for any help. Hope Zulisky
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SC/SCHONINGEN.htm
http://www.schoningen.de/
Schötmar / Schoetmar (British
zone)
Schwäbisch Gmünd / Schwaebisch
Gmuend (US zone) Lithuanians,
*Rems River, at the
northern foot of the Swabian Jura mts. It has long been known as a gold-working
and silver-working center. Founded by the mid-12th cent., Schwebisch
Gmund was a free imperial city from 1268 until 1803, when it passed to
Württemberg.
*Noteworthy buildings include the city hall (1783-85) and the St. Johanniskirche (1210-30), a late Romanesque church. See more: http://www.mv.com/ipusers/butterfly/rev/germany.htm
 
Sleeping accommodation for a daughter of a Lithuanian choir and orchestra conductor. On the right, former Lithuanian judges are learning automechanic's trade in DP camp Schwebisch-Gmuend.
Photo from Hearken Then Judge by Juozas Pasilaitis, submitted by Frank Passic
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Schwabisch+gmund&fr=fp-top&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt
Schwebda;
Schwebda and Schwäbisch
Hall are two different places: Schwebda near Eschwege is today named Meinhard bei Eschwege. Submitted by: Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.
Schwäbisch
(Schaebisch) Hall, Jews, 
The correct spelling
is Schwäbisch
Hall / Schwaebisch Hall instead of Schwabisch Hall or Schwebisch Hall.
Submitted by: Wolfgang
Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced
Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.
City archives: Stadt-und
Hospitalarchiv Schwäbisch Hall
Am Markt 5
74523 Schwäbisch Hall
Phone: 49-791-751-429
Fax: 49-791-751-485
Email: Andreas.Maisch@schwaebischhall.de
A documentary on the concentration camps in Schwebisch Hall. Koziol, Michael Sylvester. Library Stacks Rustung, Krieg und Sklaverei: der Fliegerhorst Schwabisch Hall-Hessental und das Konzentrationslager: eine Dokumentation. Sigmaringen: J. Thorbecke, 1989. UG635.G32 F556 1989
1/24/06 Hi there,
I'm hoping you can help me.
My father (Richard Hufft) was stationed in Germany during WW2 at Schwaebisch
Hall. He was 2nd in Command. He befriended a German artist by the name
of Diebitsch. I am trying to find Diebitsch's family to let them know
what an impact he had on my family. What I know about Diebitsch:
. His first
initial is C or L. I have found a Carl Diebitsch & a Karl Diebitsch
. He was official artist of Hitler's gov't
. He designed the currency for the Third Reich
. He painted Eva Braun's portrait
After the war
was over & my father came home he recieved a large box filled with paintings & furniture
that Diebitsch made for him. This is such a big part of my family's lore
that I'd like to know more about the man. My Father died in 1979
and my Mother is 82 so she doesn't remember a lot about the man.
Any help you can give me would be wonderful! Thank you, Mari Hufft-Gifford,
email: prismmgc2@sbcglobal.net
Schweinfurt, Latvian
City archives: Stadtarchiv Schweinfurt
Martin-Luther-Platz 20
97421 Schweinfurt
Tel: 0 97 21 - 5 13 82
Fax: 0 97 21 - 5 17 28
Schwerin
City archives: Landeshauptstadt Schwerin Stadtarchiv
19053 Schwerin
Tel.: (03 85) 56 29 70
Ansprechpartner:
Benutzerdienst:
Jens-Uwe Rost
Tel.: 5 93 62 44
Rainer Blumenthal
Tel.: 59 80 10 61
Archivleiter: Dr. Bernd Kasten
E-Mail: Stadtarchiv
@schwerin.de
http://www.schwerin.de/kultur_bildung/kultureinrichtungen/stadtarchiv/
Dear Olga
I was delighted to find the site dp camps and I have looked through with great interest. Both my Lithuanian parents were in dp camps. My mother was in Luebeck and she says she saw my father in Scwerin dp camp after the war. I would appreciate any help that you could give me. Thanks Birute Davies
10/15/04
Thank you for presenting such a history of ordinary people caught in
terrible circumstances.
Perhaps you can help or point me in the right direction, My father was Latvian who I believe was transported to Germany as a forced laborer, his age at the time was 13 years being picked up by the Germans and placed on a cattle truck. This was the last time time he ever visited the country of his birth--primarily because of the Russian take over after the war. I am simply trying to discover if there any ways in which I can search out back ground details as to his life prior to being sent to Britain as a displaced person. It was a period in his life that he spoke little of. With stories only really beginning with his
liberation by American troops.
His documents recently discovered by my mother point towards Schwerin - Meckienburg but after that , but i can find know real reference to where or what this place was or served as. His only comments was that he worked on servicing railways track and engines. Thanks for any help Tony Jakubovskis
Schwerte
Schwertmuhle
I am looking for a DP camp that was in Esslingen, right by the Neckar River. My uncle called this place the Schwertmuhle, or Sword Mill. He wrote a paper and here are a few places he spoke of:
The Esslingen Burg
Stadt Halle (with a massive clock with figures)
There's a train station with a station pub or stube
There's a large industrial complex there now.
If you have any info on it or pictures, that would be fabulous. My family, the Kurz family, was there from 1949 - 1956. Thank you so much! Cheryln Kurz
Seedorf, #249,
(British zone); mostly Poles, Balts, Yugoslavs, Lithuanian, Ukrainians; Russian
boy scout troops
The DP camp with
the DPAC number 249 was in Seedorf bei (near) Zeven, zip code 27404.
Submitted by: Wolfgang Strobel,
author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons
Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.
City offices: Rathaus
Samtgemeinde Zeven
Am Markt 4
27404 Zeven
Tel: 04281/716-0
Fax: 04281/716-125
Email: samtgemeinde@zeven.de
http://www.zeven.de/
UNRRA Food Stores employees at the Lithuanian DP camp in Seedorf.
Hi Olga,
Like your website.
In August 1949 my wife's parents were moved to the Seedorf camp near Hamburg
prior to emigrating to Australia.
We will be visiting Germany in September, and want to visit some of these locations,
including Seedorf. However there are a number of towns called Seedorf in that
part of Germany. Do you know how we can find an address of the camp?
Also, we're looking for someone based in or around Lubeck who could act as a
guide for us. This person must have English language skills, and preferably would
also be knowledgeable about the locations we want to visit. Can you direct us
to some one who may be able to help us? Thank you. John
Lindsay /Australia
4/5/ 05 Hello Olga, I have just found your site; it is remarkable!
My wife's father was Milivoje Acimovic, a Bosnian Serb from the former Yugoslavia.
We know from a document that we have that at sometime he was in Camp 66,
Seedorf Lager, Nr Bremeuorde (could this be Bremen today?). Because he was
a Royalist it was unsafe for him to be repatriated after the war because
Tito was in power, so he chose to come to Britain. I was wondering if there
is any more information about this camp and its occupants. Regards John
Dyke /UK
In Camp Seedorf was the Ukrainian Elementary School June 1948.
1/27/08 Hello
Olga,
Like so many others, I just
stumbled across your fantastic website when researching my dad's
background. I was wondering where it is possible to find some more
information about his history as a displaced person in Germany. I
have found his IRO card from 1948 (copy attached) which shows
the following detail:
International Refugee Organization
Regional Processing Centre
Fallingbostel - this seems to be where had his X ray and medical
The front of the
form is as follows:
IRO Processing Centre
North Rhine Westphalia
Land Niedersachsen
Schleswig Holstein
Name: Ilyk Mikolaj
DP No: 116108
Date of Arrival: 7 Oct 1948
From: 66 DPACS: Seedorf (??) Camp
Area team: 905
Group: Australian AF86 - 1713
Block No: 27
Room no: can't work this out - 23 is crossed out and replaced with
either 14, 11 or 19??
He
was a Ukrainian (from Drohobych) but was in the Polish army and taken
as a prisoner of war and worked as a slave labourer in Germany.
He met my mother there in about 1945 at Kapellen
after the Americans arrived and they were all taken to a camp in
Ratingen. They finally
emigrated to Australia in may 1949 on the Fairsea.
Is it possible to get any
more information about my parent's stay in Germany. Thanks
for any help you can provide.
Peter Ilyk ilyk@grapevine.com.au
Sehberg -
Polish POW soldiers held by Germans. Soviets had control over Poland.
Polish POWs didn't want to go home.
This
story tells of extreme food shortage in the camp, POW refusal
to go to their Soviet-occupied Poland home. (Computer
translation:) In
camp Sehberg, the British expressed sensitively to documents
issued by the camp line, which showed that one tried tried to
express own authority anzumassen and thereby also British instruction
power to entziehen.[3 ] with this procedure those Poland their
discontent over it that the right of self-determination seemed
no longer ensured to them. Probably for these reasons the British
had already decided in July 1946 to
concentrate on the remaining 9500 Polish soldiers in
few camps of their zone of occupation, in Schleswig-Holstein. Thus
also the camp Sehberg
was vacated on 28 July 1946 and
the Polish soldiers into the large camp after whom peat with Hamburg
was shifted. In response for it 430 Polish civilians, "Displaced
were sent person", on the Sehberg. These with end of war did not
free forced laborers, forced laborer inside and concentration camp
prisoners, who came on 8 August 1946 at 14.20 o'clock to the station
from Melsdorf.[4 ] thereby were however by any means solved for the
British the problems, because in the July of the following year the
competent British authority, the director
of the camp Sehberg, Lewandowski, was
requested by the mission of the new (Soviet-) Polish government in
Warsaw, to remove the Polish minister Mieczyslaw Filipowicz and another
inhabitant responsible for the camp from the camp. All three were accused
of anti-propaganda.
They themselves had expressed refusal to return to communist Poland
and concomitantly different camp inhabitants beeinflusst.[5
]. Whether the British obeyed this request, obviously, only the
minister can answer. Filipowicz, who was accommodated in
the neighbour camp remained and emigrated in 1950 to
Baltimore, MD, USA.
A further problem
was the criminality outgoing from the camp. It concerned the typical
offenses of the post-war period: Theft of food, Blackmarket,
Black brennerei in addition, force crimes. Clearly in camp Sehberg
there was an act of violence with connection to the black market business.
In November 1946 in a field a corpse had been found, parts of the
Polish NCO Garbatzki from the camp Sehberg. This murder could
never get completely resolved.[6 ] because also the identity of the
victim only weeks could be clarified after the grausigen find, has
Garbatzki contrary to the deceased of the camp Sehberg specified above
a gravestone on the cemetery of Flemhude. A total evaluation of the
criminality cannot be made for the camp Sehberg in view of the unsatisfactory
living conditions. In the case of an evaluation from historical perspective
however the general lack situation is after the war to consider the suppression
that Poland during the German crew of Poland and the humiliating
and hunger during the time of the hard labour and in the concentration
camps in Germany. To never exclude completely it is also that
the accusations should mask own offences against the laborers deprived
of food by the German population.
The arguments around
the DP criminality in the summer 1947 contributed then also to the
locking of the camp. Both the kreistag of the district Rendsburg and
the federal state parliament had substantial pressure for the British
to react more strongly to the problem. Own historical responsibilities
in these debates ausgeblendet.[7 ] the locking Sehbergs can as a concession
of the British in view of the enormous public pressure be interpreted.
Since the numbers let the political development in Poland
sink however, was not to be thought of a complete locking of the Polish "DP" camps.
From 477 inhabitants in 1946 only 14 camp inhabitants
let themselves be repatriated in November; 52 and in December; still
13 in October. In the extremely hard frozen winter of 1946/1947, the
travels became complete over the Baltic Sea between Luebeck and Stettin
with the "Isar" for
many months eingestellt.[8
If anyone wants to do an accurate translation of this article, the link
to the German site is:
http://www.zwangsarbeiter-schleswig-holstein.de/KREIS/RD/Sehberg.htm
Seligenstadt, (US
zone) Lithuanians
Lithuanians in DP camp Seligenstadt
Photo from Hearken Then Judge by Juozas Pasilaitis, submitted by Frank Passic
Seligenthal
 This was a DP camp in Landshut. See Landshut listing.
In this "Zisterzienserinnen Kloster (nunnery for women) Seligenthal" were
1250 Polish DPs here.
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Selm (British zone)
Senden (British zone)
Sendenhorst (2 camps
- British zone)
Sengwarden (formerly Wilhelmshaven) #212, Land Niedersachsen (British Zone), mostly Balts
Sennelager (2 camps
- British zone) Poles
Seppenrade (British
zone)
Siegen (British zone) 5,700
Poles
postal address: Stadt
Sindelfingen
Postfach 180
1043 Sindelfingen
website:http://www.sindelfingen.de/
9/26/04 Kudos! It is great to find your website and your work is appreciated.
Can you tell me where I would find the D.P. camp my father was born in after
the war? I was told it was in Stingelfingen, Germany. I don't know if I have
spelled that correctly! I cannot find this camp on your website but would
appreciate being directed anywhere where this camp is mentioned. Would records
exist that can be accessed online of the births in this D. P. camp?
I was
also told that the Poles draped a Polish flag at the head of the bed
and told themselves that this meant the baby was born in Poland!~
Curious Canadian
Soest (British
zone) Yugoslavs
Solingen, #3179,
#41/179, Land N. Rhine-Westphalia, (British zone), 2,400 Poles, some Balts & Yugoslavs;
City archives:
http://www.solingen.de/stadtarchiv/
http://www2.solingen.de/kommunen/solingen/www-solingen.nsf/index?readform&content=8712871EBEEE58FCC1256C8C00341D37
Gasstrasse 22b
42657 Solingen
Tel: 02 12 - 2 90 36 30
Fax: 02 12 - 2 90 36 48
My dad is a survivor of Solingen. I would love to see war time pictures. Eric
Dear Olga
You have a most interesting website. I am trying to find a friend I had in Solingen, Germany, a Polish DP camp. Her name was Zofia Murawska, Her Father's name Wladyslaw and her mother Maria. She would be about 60-ish. How would I go
about finding her whereabouts? Or for that matter any of the friends I had while living in that dp camp?
Thanks. Lydia Caine
2/18/06 Dear Olga,
I have been hunting for more info about DP camp Soligen. I have papers such as IRO processing cards, wage papers, and immunization records for my parents that state Soligen, North Rhine Westphalia, Land Niedersachsen, and Schleswig-Holstein, also Wentorf (resettlement processing center). I can not find any sites online in English where I can look into further info about this dp camp in Soligen. If possible, could you be of any assistance in this search for more info.. Thank you,
Julianna Francowiak (nee Kopczynski)
Soltau
DPAC (Displaced Persons Assembly Center) 252 in December 1945.
City archives: Stadtarchiv Soltau
Altes Rathaus
29614 Soltau
Germany
Phone: 49-5191-820
Fax: 49-5191-82181
Somme-Kaserne, some Ukrainian documentation at Shevchenko Scientific Society Library
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