German DP camps Wa - Wi

Wadersloh, 4 camps (British zone) in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia,

http://www.wadersloh.de/

Waderslohknoche (British zone)

Waiern, a small and beautiful village in Carinthia, See Feldkirchen - There is also A Waiern in Austria; Ukrainians

Waldliesborn (British zone)

http://www.bad-waldliesborn.com/

Walstedde (British zone) in Nordrhein-Westfalen

Waltrop, 2 camps (British zone); http://www.waltrop.de/ See archives in the city of Duelmen

 

Waltrop is a town in the district of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westfalen.

Warburg / Peckelsheim, #32/134, (British zone) Poles

http://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte_dienstl/nwbib/nwbib15/node6126.html

Hi Olga
We lived in Warner Kaserne, Munich from 1947 to 1951 before coming to the US.
Tell me about your experiences there. I am writing a book to share with my kids and grandkids. Alex

My mother, for survival purposes, she stated her nationality as Polish. During her stay in a dp camp (I have a document stamped Watenstedt-Salzgitter January 1950, this may have been an embarkation point) in 1945, she met a man she called Jozef Krawczyk (aged approx 40). After a short courtship, she fell pregnant with me. This man appeared to be a bit of a lad and soon after decided to head back to Poland from whence he came. My mother spent the latter part of her pregnancy being cared for by Jozef's son who was 17 or 18 at the time and carried the same name as his father. When I was born, Jozef junior also headed back to Poland to inform his father he had another son. Some six weeks later, mum met a Russian man, called Wasyl Semenikow, whom she married. In May 1950 we migrated to Australia.

At this point, I would dearly love to find that older brother and any other relatives in Poland. I would be grateful for anything you may be able to do for me or at least point me to someone who can. Yours Greatfully, Eugene Semenikow/ Australia

Wedel is a town in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, approximately 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Elmshorn, and 17 kilometres (11 miles) west of Hamburg. Second World War almost put the small city into ashes and debris. 70 % of the living spaces in Wedel were turned into rubble.

The city built large barrack settlements in a hurry. The housing shortage reached its high point when after WW II refugees came in masses from the east to Wedel. A census in 1947 shows that Wedel had 7,902 native inhabitants and more than 6,500 evacuated and refugees. Each person was allowed 4.9m² (52 square feet) of living space

City web site: http://www.wedel.de/

City hall:
Rathausplatz 3-5
22880 Wedel
Tel. 04103 707-0
info@stadt.wedel.de

City archive: Stadtarchiv Pinneberg
Bismarckstrasse 8
25421 Pinneberg
Tel: 0 41 01 - 21 12 24
Fax: 0 41 01 - 21 14 44
http://www.archive.schleswig-holstein.de/kreis_pinn/sapinnebe.html

Latvians, Balts.

There's a big hospital in Wehnen, search on the web: Landeskrankenhaus Wehnen

City archives: Kulturzentrum Hans Bauer
Schulgasse 3a
D-92637 Weiden (Oberpfalz)
Tel: +49 (961) 470 3900
Fax: +49 (961) 470 3909
E-mail: archiv@weiden-oberpfalz.de

I am a Latvian DP that remembers being in Weiden and Schwbisch-Gmund. Thank You Andy Kruklitis

3/31/05 I stumbled upon your site and was unable to find the DP camp I was born in. The village is Weiden, Bavaria. Can you give me some information on how to find out about this camp, please? Vera Akers

2/15/2007 Mrs. Kaczmar,
According to a UNRRA document I have on Konstanty Proniewicz, my father lived here from 1944 to late 1946 at Camp Hammerweg. He had been under the care of a Mrs. Proniewicz [first name was not given], with whom he had been evacuated from Iwacewicze, Poland [probably now Ivatsevichy, Belarus], along with her two children, whose names I do not have. Any information on this location, including on Polish or Belarussian refugees that were sent there from the region around Ivatsevichy, would be greatly appreciated. Max Monclair, Omaha, NE http://maxmonclair.blogspot.com

City archives: Stadtarchiv Weissenburg in Bayern
Marktplatz 19
91781 Weissenburg in Bayern
Tel.: (09141) 907-221
Fax: (09141) 907-227
Email: Stadt@Weissenburg.de
Web: http://www.weissenburg.de

State archives in Hamburg: http://fhh.hamburg.de/stadt/Aktuell/behoerden/staatsarchiv

Staatsarchiv Hamburg Kattunbleiche 19
22041 Hamburg

Tel.: (040) 42831 - 3200
Fax: (040) 42831 - 3201
email contact form:
http://fhh.hamburg.de/stadt/Aktuell/behoerden/staatsarchiv/kontakt/kontaktformular/poststelle_40staatsarchiv.hamburg.de.html

City archives: Stadtarchiv Werther
Mühlenstr. 2
33824 Werther
Tel.: 05203-70517
Fax: 05203-70588
Web: http://www.archive.nrw.de/home.asp?stadta-werther

Werne (5 camps-British)

Werther, Land North Rhine / Westphalia (British)

The street address is Ritterstrasse 19.

Tel: 0521 594-296
Fax: 0521 594-129
E-mail: archiv@lka.ekvw.de

map and region information in English http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=westfalen+1945+zwangsarbeiter&vm=i&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt

My husband's family were in camp in Alfeld and Westfalen. Can you help with information in english please. I really find your sight informative. Thanks Linda Juda Australia

Documents in German concerning forced labor in Westfalen http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=westfalen+1945+zwangsarbeiter&vm=i&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt

Historical archives: Mauser Gasse 17
35578 Wetzlar
Tel.: (06441) 99351
Fax: (06441) 99433
Bibliothekssigel: Zta 1488
Kontakt: Dr. Irene Jung, Historisches

City archives: Stadtarchiv Wetzlar
Address: Rathaus,
Hauser Gasse 17,
D-35578 Wetzlar

12/9/04 Dear Olga,
Can you advice me where to find records about my parents? They stayed in American Army refugee camps after sec. world war. I know for sure they were in Wetzlar (near Frankfurt am main) on Sept / Oct 1948. I'm looking for their marriage certificate or any other document about them like a copy of their passports or their identity cards. They came after the Holocaust to Germany from Poland and Russia. Their names are: Avram Ledershtein & Mania Ledershtein (Finkelshtein). Anaish

Wiedenbrück / Wiedenbrueck

Wiesbaden

State archives: Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv
Mosbacher Str. 55
65187 Wiesbaden
Germany
Tel: 49-611-8810
Fax: 49-611-881145
Email: Poststelle@hhstaw.hessen.de
Web: http://www.hauptstaatsarchiv.hessen.de/

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

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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. His friend says in was with him in Wiesbaden dp camp and the he played national league basketball there. My father was taken to Germany and he did forced labour for the Luftwaffe. Do you know if they would have records of forced labourers? I would appreciate any help that you could give me. Thanks Birute Davies

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12/28/04 Dear Olga,
Great site. I'm looking for a missing person, Vanda-Ofelija Saukaite (maiden name), Lithuanian. Last seen in Wiesbaden DP Camp in 1949. Any help would be greatly appreaciated. Thank You. My E-mail: www.mitchtaras@yahoo.com MITCH TARAS

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11/17/07 DEAR OLGA KACZMAR

I am requesting help in finding Wladyslawa Dumanskiego (Dumanski, Dumansky), born 3 November 1923 in the Poland in Greagarious in the former Tarnopol (Ternopil) province, commune Bialy Kamien (present-day Ukraine). He is the son Antoniego and Stanislawy from the Kisinska house.

At 19 years old, he was taken to the Germany for the compulsory work (slave labor). He spent 6 years (1942-1948) in Germany. He spent in camps: DIEBACH (1942-1945, the employee of FARMS), WILDFLECEKEN (1945-1946), WIESBADEN DOTZHEIM (1946-1948, for employer LSCO). He also worked in Germany for a women who might have been called Theresa Mueller. The German also spent time in the American zone in 1945.

He wrote in the application for help to International Refugee Organization (IRO) so the date of the control of displacement of this 30.03.1950, was in 1959 IRO Center Control in Hanau). He wanted to immigrate to the England because of political reasons, so he could leave England to go to Australia. He could emigrate from the Germany thanks to the organization International Refugee Organization in years 1948-1959. The IRO application for help in leaving zostalo (undersigned by Wladyslaw Dumanskiego) in the year 11.06.1948. There is the most probably marriage recorded for Wladyslaw Dumanski at the Australian office of the civil state

Since Wladyslaw Dumanski emigrated to the Australia, his sister,Genowefa, has had no contact is with him. She doesn't know if he is alive or what happened to him. She has just turned 79 years and she wants to know if her brother Wladyslaw Dumanski lives.

 
I enclose a picture Wladyslaw Dumanskiego. Thank you in advance for your help. Mieczyslaw Kaczkowski. My the e-mail: mieczyslaw.kaczkowski1@neostrada.pl, POLAND

Wildenhagen

Wildenhagen near Reppen was German until 1945. Now it is in Poland. I do not know the Polish name of former Wildenhagen. Reppen is now Rzepin (in Poland). This place is 20 km east of the German border town Frankfurt an der Oder or the Polish border town Slubice. Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.

Wilhelmshaven-Mariensiel

Wilhelmstahl (US zone); Russian boy scout troops

Wildflecken page 1, Wildflecken page 2 (U.S. Zone, mostly Polish, some Ukrainian)

Wildflecken museum http://www.comrades.de/rhoenkaserne/museum.htm

US Army photos http://www.usarmygermany.com/USAREUR_Gallery4.htm

A thousand Poles rioted in Wildflecken when Polish officers showed up to repatriate them. (Wyman, p.83)

Memories of Wildflecken

DP camps 2

Janie Micchelli has been hard at work with a new website about camps, camp life and stories. Make a point of visiting this site. She includes lots of photos of Wildflecken.

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Gemeindeverwaltung Wildflecken
Rathausplatz 1
D-97772 Wildflecken
Germany
E-mail: info@wildflecken.de

City of Wildflecken www.wildflecken.de Official homepage of the "Marktgemeinde"

Wildflecken is a town in the forrest region Rhoen. Camp Wildflecken had been a former Nazi camp and was turned into a camp for displaced persons later on. I am trying to find out more about my grandfather who served as an American soldier in the Wildflecken camp in 1945-46, that's why I came across your message. Greetings from Germany, Bettina Meister

Kia ora Olga from New Zealand,
I have recently learned of my father's background. I never knew of him or of his mother and father. It was a family secret of my father's side, well kept by my mother. I am searching for information on them. Aleksandrs (Alexander) HEMPELIS (my grandfather) born in 1910 in Riga, Latvia; died 1964 in Perth Australia. His father's name was Karlis HEMPELIS and mother's name, Olga Marie KLAIPIS. Both born in Latvia. Olga HEMPELIS nee KLAVINS married Aleksandrs in 1941 Riga, Latvia. Aleksandrs and Olga had my father, Imants Janis HEMPELIS, born at Eichstatt Germany in 1946 and a daughter, Silvija Hempelis, born at Ulm Germany 1948.

All of them were at camp WILDFLECKEN until 1950 when they were sent to Australia aboard General Hersey from port Bremerhaven arriving Fremantle Australia. Also travelling with them was Olga's new partner Eduard STURIS.

Any information where to look to find out who we were is again most appreciative. Please contact me at my email address: XCLUSIVEbyDAARHN@hotmail.com Sincerely, Daarhn Hempelis / New Zealand.

1/5/06 Hi Olga,
Browsing through your treasured pages I came across some pieces and pix about Wildflecken. I never visited the camp but have some connection with it. About March-April 1945, my brother's wife (Dr Katalin Dettre, nee Szarvas and her parents (Dr Andras Szarvas and Dr Ilonka Szarvas, all three of them medical doctors), drifted towards the west ahead of the approaching Soviet troops and ended up in Bavaria. Soon they fell into American hands (let there be no worse hands in the world ever...) and were taken to Wildflecken camp, engaged as doctors. My brother (Dr Gabor Dettre, also a medical director...) wasn't with them as he was a MO with a Hungarian army unit near the Balaton Lake. Now...Towards the end of 1945 or early 1946, my sister-in-law gave birth to a little girl at Wildflecken: she was named Klara (Hungarian for Claire). Her Godmother was a high ranking UNRRA officer, Kathryn Hulme. Later Ms Hulme returned to California and wrote a few books: one was called Wild Places (about Wildflecken), another The Nun's Story. I met Ms Hulme mid-1948 in Wurzburg, hoping that she could help me to the USA but the as the Hungarian quota was so very bad, I would have had to wait some years...I have no idea what happened to Ms Hulme later. My brother, his wife, her parents and even Klara Dettre have all died since. Now I am writing this to you in case any of your many readers met the Szarvas doctors or my former sister-in-law in that camp at Wildflecken. Regards Andrew email:interpress@optusnet.com.au

Winklar (Lower Saxony-British)

Wittenau (French zone), Jews

a group photo of the people living at the camp.

I do know that it was a small camp with maybe 300 people living there. My parents have numerous photographs of weddings and group photos even the Police Dept., a choir, Christmas caroling, etc. We lived there from 1946-48 and then moved on to a huge building in Munich where we lived for a year prior to our leaving Germany for the USA. My dad tells me many stories but mom can no longer speak, she had a stroke 3 years ago. I need to put all this information on paper so that our future generations know who we were and we are. Thanks again for all your help. Daria (Maslihan) Bonomini email: bono@warwick.net

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

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