Displaced Persons -
DP Camps in FRANCE
45 camps in 1947. My list is skimpy here; e-mail me if you find the names of others.
Attichy has its own page.
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8/14/05 Hi Olga,
My father was a soldier at the camp. My father married a local French girl, my mother around 1948. He was at the camp around 1946-47. My father served in the military until 1966. We spent the majority of that time in Europe. My mother tells me that on certain weekends the GI's would truck the locals in for dancing and food. That is where my mother and father met. He was welcomed by my mother's family which was quite large. I was born in Chelles in 1948 near Crotoy and Attichy. Growing up, my father would point out where the camp was. I'll send you the piks once I scan them. The most interesting one is on the German pow's kitchen crew in front of the kitchen which consist of about 35 people. Jack
Brochard
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2/4/06 Dear Olga
I found a photo on your site of my dad in the Bockhard site. I think it was the fourth photo down the page. One of a group of mps at Brochard, one of the people in it happens to be my dad [the fourth from the left]. Elenor Roosevelt is in it with a group with about 16 men and 1 child. Maybe somebody out there might know something about it. I have been on the net for ten years now with nothing to show until now. Hopefully this will be the thin edge of the wedge. I'm enclosing some photos that some people might like to see; hope you can show them on your site somewhere. Thanks c.hanna
Polish wedding in Brochard
My eldest sister is the flower girl in the wedding photo and my mum is in the photo as well.
Polish first Holy Communion in Brochard. My elderest sister is in it and also my mum.
The rest of the photos I only know that the people in them could be
relations.
"The
Germans used forced labor for a variety of tasks, from building airfields
and coastal fortifications, to working in factories. These 'Soviet' (?)
forced laborers were liberated near Chalons, France. Many were transported
to USSR, some refused repartriation."
Photo: National Archives & Mark Wyman
Olga's comment: They were probably Ukrainian, terrified of Stalin and his well-known eradication of Ukrainians.
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DAD, German databank contains emigration to North America through Bremen.
The DAD is primarily concerned with the German emigration ports of Bremen/Bremerhaven,
Hamburg and Cuxhaven. However, in some cases the ports of Boulogne, Cherbourg, Le Havre or Southampton and others are also recorded as frequently the ships would call at various European ports and take passengers on board before crossing the Atlantic. The passenger lists were always written in English.
Cherbourg was the first large city liberated in France: "General conditions. Although damage to the city, about 25 percent, was less than expected, the population had been reduced, chiefly by forced evacuation, from about 40,000 to about 5,000. The remaining inhabitants were patriots who, evading German evacuation orders, had stayed to witness the liberation. Civilian casualties were light, and most of the wounded could be cared for in civilian hospitals. Food for 30 days was available. Some looting occurred during the first few days after the surrender, but police were functioning and law and order were maintained. Public health administration as well as most civilian community functions and services suffered from lack of transportation and poor communications. Early restoration of newspapers, movies, radio, and courts was achieved. "See http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/civilaffairs/chapter13.htm
Metz has its own page
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Archives Municipales
Chef de service : M. LUCAS
Conservateur responsable du service des archives : Mlle BARTHEL
1-3 rue des Recollets
57000 METZ
Mairie de Metz
BP 21025
57036 METZ
Tel. 03 87 68 25 70
Fax. 03 87 75 30 73
Contacter ce service par e-mail: rarchives@mairie-metz.fr
Hallo,
My name is Roland Zimmer, You wrote about a French-Soviet raid (Repatriation
page) on a dp-camp in Metz. Do you know the name of the camp? Do you
know where it was located at? Was it in the city of Metz or in the area
around Metz? Are still people alive who could identify the camp on a
picture? Thank you very much for any answer.
With regards Roland Zimmer /
Germany
http://www.tankbooks.com/charland/charland16.htm
http://www.8th-armored.org/8history.htm
http://www.89infdivww2.org/memories/354_26.htm
http://www.well.com/user/dpd/TED/tedwar.html
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article in French: http://www.alsapresse.com/jdj/04/07/22/DO/2/article_9.html
St. Jerome, DP holding camps
Subject: UKRAINIANS IN FRANCE
Desiat' rokiv pratsi.
Natsionalistychne Vydavnytstvo v Evropi.
54s. 21tsm. Language--U. Paryzh, 1959.
Ukrainets' u Frantsii: Ukrains'ko-frantsuz'kyi poradnyk. Petrenko, F.
Ukrains'ka Vyzvol'na biblioteka.
64s. 22sm. poor condition. Language--U. Paryzh, 1933.
Jullouville UNNRA Training Center: http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographies/1914Edward/UnrraScrapbook/Jullouville/Jullouville.html
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Missing Person Attn: Kaczmars in France: Emilion Kaczmar's daughter in France, please notify me immediately. Your half sister wants to write to you before she dies. Send your photo. I will give you the address. Your two half brothers have already died. okaczmar@earthlink.net |
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Seven to nine million people were displaced by the end of the war. At the end of 1945, 1.5 to 2 million displaced persons (DPs) did not want to return to their homes, fearing economic and social repercussions, or even annihilation. About ten percent of these people were Jewish.
The British changed plans and sent the Exodus prisoners to Port de Bouc in southern France, where they had first embarked. Gruber rushed there from Cyprus. When the prison ships arrived, the prisoners refused to disembark. After 18 days in which the refugees endured the blistering heat, the British decided to ship the Jews back to Germany.
The French reject the British demand to land the passengers. 4,500 Jews anchored off the French coast leave for Israel. Between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews emigrate to Israel, including more than two-thirds of the Jewish displaced persons in Europe.
Thanks to the French Socialist Party we were able to secure 1,200 more visas for our D.P.'s in the camps who will now be permitted to settle in France. People have to be selected and examined medically. Then we must find transportation to France and provide new arrivals with apartments and work. photo story
Ukraine Europe Website -general URL -(SUI's Website - Ukrainian information
service in France - and French speaking Ukrainian diaspora's website) (Portal page)
Ukraine-Europe.org
Ukrainian organizations in France and Belgium
Ukraine-Europe dossiers
Ukrainian genealogy (no pages about Ukrainian genealogy in France but only
for research in Ukraine, Poland... and a research forum at this URL
page 115
Best regards from our diaspora and
J.CHEVTCHENKO (Shevchenko)
Ukraine Europe Web Content Manager
President de l'Union des Francais d'Origine Ukrainienne
Directeur du Service Ukrainien d'Information - France
2/4/06
Hi, I'm writing up my father's memoirs about the war. He tells of Germans in a POW camp in France near a place called Arvenge or Arvange. He can't remember the name exactly. I am trying to find out the real name of that city or village. He landed with the Dutch Brigade in Normandy, one or two months after D-Day, and then fought with them through northern France, so I think the town must be a northern one. Any help would be appreciated.
Very important page: Immigration records and archives in France
This might be worth your time to translate into English from French: use Babel fish
computer translation to help you, it's free on the web.
http://babel.altavista.com/
BB36 - Proces Rochling devant le tribunal general du gouvernement militaire de Rastatt (1914-1948).
http://www.histoire-genealogie.com/dossiers_pratiques/initiation_archives/nationale2.htm
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