Displaced Persons -
German DP camps Wo - Z
Map, References / Sources found on intro. |
Wolfenbüttel / Wolfenbuettel (British zone) Wolfrathausen (US zone) See Foehrenwald; 5,000 Jews
Loisach-Ufer 1 82515 Wolfratshausen Tel: (08171) 76650 Fax: (08171) 76650
City offices: Stadtverwaltung Wolfsburg
Tel: 05361/ 28-0
Hauptstr. 2 67752 Wolfstein/Pfalz Tel. 49-6304-214 Wolterdingen, DPAC #251, Land Niedersachsen (British zone); for city archives at Soltau see page S under Soltau.
Wulfen (British zone) Wunstorf (Lower Saxony, British zone); See also Neustadt am Rübenberge
31515 Wunstorf Tel.: (05031) 101-326 Fax: (05031) 101-360 Email: Stadt.Wunstorf@t-online.de
City archives: Friedrich-Engels-Allee 89-91
http://www.uni-wuppertal.de
Würzburg
/ Wuerzburg, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian
The Spessart Park is situated between Würzburg and Aschaffenburg Article: "Letter from Wurzburg." New Yorker 24 (6 November 1948) 104-09. Inquire at New Yorker Magazine.
City archives / Stadtarchivs Würzburg For fulfilling oral or written specialty searches, the fee is 26.00 Euros per half hour of required time. Für die Erteilung mündlicher oder schriftlicher Fachauskünfte beträgt die Gebühr 26,00 Euro je Halbstunde Zeitaufwand. I, with my family, lived at Wurzburg -- April, 1949 -June, 1949, please contact: Silvia Wolff 3/21/05 Dear Olga,
I wanted to write to you to tell you briefly about my grandfather. He was Major Samuel S. Kale and he was the laison officer between the US Military and the United Nations (UNRRA and IRO) from 1946 - 1949 in Würzburg, Germany. He was in charge of several camps in the Unterfranken region. While he was stationed in Germany, my grandmother and mother and her siblings had to move there and live for three years. I grew up hearing stories of their adventures in post-war Germany and their experiences with the DPs who worked for my grandfather (he refused to hire Germans, he would only hire DPs to work as gardener, housekeeper, chauffeur, etc). Every Christmas my mother tells me the stories of how he helped to arrange for gifts to be sent from the United States to Germany so that the DP children could have a Christmas. My mother would have to go to the military post office to pick up boxes and boxes and boxes of things my great-grandmother gathered from people here in New Jersey. Then, she had to wrap hundres of little items for the kids. She reminds me of this every time I ask her to wrap something for me! My Grandfather also would never allow the Soviet officers to visit the camps without MPs escorting them because he did not want them intimidating the DPs into returning to the Soviet Union. In 1990 I wrote a research paper for college about his work with the DPs and eventually that expanded into a book about my family's time in Germany after the war. I would be more than happy to send you a copy of my research paper if you would like to read it. Also, if you think you might be interested in reading the book (although it's more about the American family and less about the DPs). You can read about the book here Best regards, Mark Falzini
Dear Olga, I have found in a book the complete key of all camps in Wurttemberg; code, place, number of inhabitants and nationalities. (Also explaining the area around Lenningen). C. Maihoefer, / Germany, 2003
1/25/06 Wurzach in Baden-Wurttemberg, (French zone), see Bad Wurzach Zehlendorf is a suburb of Berlin in the former US sector. Zeilsheim 12 miles west of Frankfurt on Main, Jews, severly overcrowded;
Kosher food in camp: http://www.tzemachdovid.org/vaadhatzala/kosher.shtml
Ziegenhain, Jews
Contact: Mrs. Waltraud Burger Zierenberg (US zone); Russian boy scout troops Zopp
 Hello, I m particularly interested
in finding: Assembly Center Nƒ 571 in Germany,
and DP Camp 527 |
A few of my wife's relatives were repatriated
to Poland and one eventually came here to the USA. This picture of one of these
relatives wearing a black uniform (origin unknown), standing in front of a sign
that reads "UNRRA, Displaced Persons Hospital, Team 911" with a US Army 6x6 in
the background. It appears as though he's performing the role of a constable
or possibly security (Note the 'billy-club' strung from the right hand) for the
Hospital that's obviously somewhere in the background. |
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| Were was the hospital's location, UNNRA 911? | |
| We believe his birth village was in what is now Lithuania (or right on the present border of Poland). He gave it on his Social Security application as Juracinski. I believe he was possibly inducted into the German army (he mentioned driving trucks). Another relative said he went to Germany as a laborer. He wound up in France and there the story gets less defined. He used to speak of the Underground, and I've seen pictures of him armed (Looked like a US Thompson Sub-Machine Gun) and in what looks to be military fatigues. I do know that he wound up in England after the war and worked there as a gardener for a while before coming to the US. Thanks a bunch. Ken Coughlin
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