Displaced Persons Research A-M
Archives to many countries
United Nations Archives UNESCO archives portal search listings of all archives in the world
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=5761&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1034953712
Austria
I have received several photos of men in uniforms we could not identify. There are drawings of the uniforms of "Militaerbeamte: (like civil service attached to the military) with two rows of buttons that may help the list members who sent me those photos.
Be sure to click on LINKS near the bottom left of the home page after finishing exploring the rest of the site.
The photos of uniforms show the gold belt and sword tassel of officers. The text is in German. If you have a German-English dictionary, you may want to have it on hand when you review these pages. Or go to an online dictionary for the key words that identify photos.
The rank ensignia is from highest (at the top) to lowest, on the bottom. The NCO ensignia is just above the lowest, the Gemeiner (private).
Karen
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Austrian Film Archives - Österreichisches Filmarchiv, Laxenburg n.wostry@filmarchiv.at
Obere Augartenstrasse 1
A-1020, Wien (Vienna)
Österreich (Austria)Tel: +43 (1) 512 9936
Fax: +43 (1) 513 5330
http://www.penrose-press.com/idd/card.php?INDEX=LIB7222&SUBJECT=ALL
Directory and links to following archives are on:
Archiv der Stadt Klosterneuburg Archiv der Stadt Salzburg Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Herzogenburg Bibliothek Bibliothek Benediktiner-Erzabtei St. Peter Bibliothek für Musikwissenschaft Bibliothek Kärtner Landeskonservatorium Bibliothek St. Gabriel Bibliothek Tiroler Landeskonservatorium Bundesstaatliche Studienbibliothek Burgenländische Landesbibliothek Burgenländisches Landesarchiv Burgenländisches Volksliedarchiv Diözesanarchiv und Diözesenbibliothek Esterhçzy-Archiv Filmarchiv Austria Franz-Xaver-Gruber-Stille-Nacht-Archiv Internationales Opern Archiv Kärntner Landesarchiv Landesbibliothek Niederösterreich Lilienfeld Bibliothek Literaturhaus Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv Niederösterreichische Landesbibliothek Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv Oskar Kokoschka Archiv Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Österreichischen Zentralbibliothek für Physik Österreichischer Fernseharchiv Österreichischer Rundfunk Archiv Österreichischer Stadtgeschichtsforschung Bibliothek Österreichisches Filmarchiv Österreichisches Staatsarchiv Osterreichisches Theatermuseum Bibliothek Phonogrammarchiv Salzburger Landesarchiv Salzburger Literaturarchiv Schlossbibliothek Steyr Stadtarchiv Bad Ischl Stadtarchiv Bad Vöslau Stadtarchiv Baden-bei-Wien Stadtarchiv Braunau am Inn Stadtarchiv Bregenz |
Stadtarchiv Bruck an der Leitha Stadtarchiv Eisenstadt Stadtarchiv Feldkirch Stadtarchiv Graz Stadtarchiv Hall in Tirol Stadtarchiv Hallein Stadtarchiv Innsbruck Stadtarchiv Krems Stadtarchiv Linz Stadtarchiv Mödling Stadtarchiv Neunkirchen Stadtarchiv Pöchlarn Stadtarchiv Salzburg Stadtarchiv Sankt Pölten Stadtarchiv Steyr Stadtarchiv Villach Stadtarchiv Wels Stadtarchiv Wiener Neustadt Stadtbibliothek Feldkirch Stadtbücherei Baden bei Wien Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg Tiroler Landesarchiv TU Graz Universitätsbibliothek TU Wien Universitätsbibliothek Universitätbibliothek für Angewandte Künste - Wien Universitätbibliothek für Theaterwissenschaft Wien UniversitätsBibliothek für Bodenkultur Wien Universitatsbibliothek für Musik und Darstellende Kunst - Graz Universitätsbibliothek für Musik und Darstellende Kunst - Wien Universitätsbibliothek Graz Universitätsbibliothek Innsbruck Universitätsbibliothek Leoben Universitätsbibliothek Linz Universitätsbibliothek Mozarteum Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg Vorarlberger Landesarchiv Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek Wiener Bühnenverein Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek |
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Austria-Hungary Empire
Balkan
Bandera
Bandurist Chorus / Living Strings - The Story of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus Documentary Film Project
10/7/07 Olga,
Hello! I came across your web site recently - amazing work you're doing !! congratulations!!!
Finding your site comes at a poignant time for me. But first, let me furnish you some background about my email to you here ...
I am producing a documentary film on the history of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus - entitled Living Strings. This was, and still is an infamous Ukrainian folk and choral ensemble that plays the bandura. I am a proud member of the chorus today, as was my father in his day. In the process of gathering archives, I've begun to search for the existence of German radio and film archives from the WWII era (from 1941-1949) of a group known as the Ukrainian Bandurist chorus - a folk instrument and choral ensemble that played the bandura.
I recently attended a combined re-union of the remaining surviving members of the DP camps of Regensburg, Landshut, Karlsefldt, and Berchensgaden (sp?) in upstate NY last month. I was able to introduce clips of a promo version of the film I have completed to date with the last survivors of the group. These people all saw the group in their DP camp days, as the chorus toured the camps. They have fond memories of their performances and I thought it a wonderful way to connect with them in my search for material.
The group was sent from Kyiv, Ukraine in August of 1942 - as slave labour to Hamburg, Germany - to a camp there called 'Schuppen 43' where they were interned for a period. Would you know where I could find any info on this camp? Later that year, they were contracted by a German tour company called "krafterfroide' to tour throughout the German cities and play for the thousands of slave workers - or Ostarbeiters from the east. Would I be able to inquire anywhere if these performances were either recorded by the Germans or filmed in some fashion? If so, might you know where I could search for such material? It is also my understanding that at one point the group played in the communications bunker in Berlin at the height of the war - the same bunker where Hitler killed himself. They played a 6-7 song radio program for the eastern front, arranged by Krafterfroide. I am looking to see if this would have been recorded and if it indeed still exists somewhere.
After the war, the group fled to DP camps - and toured many of them, including Regensburg, Ingolstadt, Landshut, etc ... from 1945-1949. I would like to see if any audio or visual material recorded would exist from this era.
I would be grateful for any help or perspective you could provide as I continue my search. Finding such information as I've outlined above would lend enormous impact to the work I'm doing. Please feel free to forward this email and my inquiry to anyone within your network of contacts that may be able to assist me in my search - or that may have info on this topic.
If anyone in your group might have pictures or photos of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus from when they toured the DP camps in 1945-1949, this would be most helpful. There was also a film that was made by a film producer named Bohdan Soluk who filmed the group performing in some of the camps at this time. if there is anyone who might recall where I could find a copy of this - that would be a tremendous help.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards,
Orest Sushko, Producer, Los Angeles, CA email: osinla@verizon.net, cell (310)795-0747US charitable contributions may be made through the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus in Detroit - earmarked for the "Living Strings" Documentary Film Project. US contributions will receive a tax receipt through the UBC. See http://www.bandura.org
Canadian charitable contributions may be made by cheque to Shevchenko Foundation - Living Strings. A Canadian tax receipt will be issued by the foundation. Donors will receive recognition in the credits of the film. See http://www.shevchenkofoundation.com
Belarus / Byelorussia
Byelorussia, the Western half of which was governed by a civil administration while the Eastern half was controlled by a military government, was under German occupation longer than any other Soviet republic. No other example shows as clearly what the German occupation intended to do and achieved: Out of a population of 10.6 million, 2.2 million inhabitants lost their lives which amounts to 1/4 of the Belarus population. More: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/exhibits/WoA/byelorussia.html
Why is Russia white? http://www.pravapis.org/art_white_russia.asp Belarus: real or fictitious nation? http://www.pravapis.org/art_belarus_nation.asp Belarus: "Belarusian" and "Belarusan" the correct adjective forms http://www.pravapis.org/art_belarusian_adjective.asp The 21 Names of Belarus http://www.pravapis.org/art_belarus_name.asp
Biases in recording history
Most history sites, this one is a perfect example, don't even mention Ukraine being at the war at all. It's like the 10 million Ukrainian people missing after WWII doesn't mean a thing to some historians. Casualty lists which exclude the Ukrainians totally http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob62.html
Brazil
Immigrants to São Paulo, Brazil, Online
A list of immigrants who came to the State of São Paulo, Brazil, is
available at http://www.memorialdoimigrante.sp.gov.br. Most of the
records are for the period 1885 - 1925, but there are some as late as
1948. Searching for the given name John produced only about 200 entries.
It does not have wildcard ability, but interestingly you can search by
first name only. .... The site is sponsored by the Department of
Museums and Archives, of the State Secretary of the Culture of São
Paulo. From: http://www.avotaynu.com/nu.htm
Bukovina the Land of Beech Trees
The Bukovina Society of the Americas
P.O. Box 1083, Hays, KS 67601, USA
Oren Windholz, President windholz@bukovinasociety.org
Bukovina
Society site map
history of Bukowina http://www.bukovinasociety.org/
genealogy
research Bukovina http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/ESE/bukowina.html
Greetings Olga: I used the German
spelling of Chernovitsi (Czernovitsi). So
far I have dug up info about the village of Russisch Banilla, which was two villages
known as Banilla de Sus and Banilla de Chos (Jos). One village up stream on the
Chermosh River and known as Banilla de Sus, the other village down stream known
as Banilla de Chos (Jos) and in 1776 the Austrians combined and named it Russisch
Banilla. I have maintained the original names and have not Ukrianianize the names.
Am staying with the spelling of names and places as they were at the time in
history. Locals that were conscripted into the Austrian Army from Bukovina reported
to the K.K Common Army in Czernoivitsi (Chernivtsi) and the units were under
the control of the XI Army in Lemberg, now Lviv. That is how the army records
are now in L' viv. Any further info would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely yours,
Eugene A Sr
Displaced-Persons - Ein Nachkriegsproblem http://www.geschichtsatlas.de/~ga2/index.htm A problem after the war.
Campaign to rescind Pulitzer prize by New York Times
Carpathian Germans
Circassians
Our lands hold so much history. Our culture and heritage are beyond anything you have come across. Our dance has been rated as the most exciting in the world by major cultural dance instructors. Many of the Greek and Scandanavian mythologies are based on our own Nart Saga's. Go to Amazon.com and look for two books:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassia
http://mhajrt.tripod.com/MyCircassians.htm
http://www.circassians.org/jo/welfare/
The National Geographic Genographic Project is selling DNA testing (for
$107) that claims it will determine a person's genetic lineage. I think
it would be interesting if some of you "pure-bred" rusyns out there
gave this a try and reported back the results to the rest of us. I'm
saving my pennies to get a kit, but am only 50% rusyn... The url is: http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?
itemID=2345&itemType=PRODUCT
Kevin
www.ancestry.com has kits avaliable for father, mother and for indian
ancestry for a couple hundred bucks. Very accurate tests.
The more you pay the better results.
Its not a swab the mouth, say what you are deal. They can match ancestors
through male or female lines and/or tell if one has an indian infusion of
the blood.Jon
DPs in Post-War Germany
conference 31 January 2003 http://www.iwm.org.uk/conference/prog3.htm
Estimates of the dead range as high as 50 million, although national tolls varied greatly, from 20 million Russians to 460,000 British and Commonwealth subjects. Overall, the losses in Central and Eastern Europe far outnumbered those in Western Europe.... more
European Military Records website: http://maxpages.com/poland/Military_Records_Europe
Germany & Slave Labor
Forced labor / Zwangsarbeiter
Another website in German Quellen zu NS-Zwangsarbeitern (forced workers in) im Staatsarchiv (state archives) Sigmaringen
(city archives of Sigmaringen)
Photo of Arbeitsbuch (worker's identification book)
'Lagergeld' Concentration Camp Money
Fritz-Bauer-Institut
Study- and Documentation Center on the History and Impact of the Holocaust
http://www.fritz-bauer-institut.de/
Regional organizations: Bund der Vertriebenen
http://www.bund-der-vertriebenen.de/
Germany forced labor settlement
The settlement that we reached with the German defendants was for compensation
for slave and forced labor. This settlement was limited to surviving former laborers.
Therefore, if you were born in a work camp, I do not think you would have been
eligible since you would have been too young to work. The deadline is over but
you can ask what transpired.
So few survivors eligible for benefits:
http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~www570a/spoerer/survivor.htm
Firms which paid compensation and how much:
http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~www570a/spoerer/compensa.htmhttp://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~www570a/spoerer/forcedlb.htm
Other useful links:
http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~www570a/spoerer/forcedlb.htmhttp://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~www570a/spoerer/forcedlb.htm
Germans Pensions for Work in Ghettos
Tel: 011-49-40-5300-1315 or at www.lva-hamburg.de The deadline to request an application was June 30, 2003
www.survivors-international.org
email: hasler@survivors-interntional.orgwww.nylag.org
email:idavis@nylagorg and hdrook@nylag.org
Sample letter to German Social Insurance Office:
Landesversicherungsanstalt (LVA)
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
Postfach 70 11 25
22011 Hamburg
GermanyDear Sir or Madam:
I hereby apply for payment of a Pension based on the work I did in a Ghetto. Please promptly forward me all forms, which I need to complete. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely.
German archives: http://www.archive.nrw.de/index.asp website (in German) contains addresses of municipal archives, state archives, archives of industrial firms, university archives, church archives and private archives and gives you basic information: address, opening times, archival sources. The data on sources vary in quality as every archive is responsible for updating the data and only bigger archives manage to do so. Municiple archives in Bavaria http://bavariafaqs.homestead.com/MunicipalArchivesList.html 402 addresses of German state and municipal archives http://home.t-online.de/home/RIJONUE/archives.htm
Germany Army 1918- 1945
And, Yes, the SS did, indeed, send shiploads of prisoners
out into the Baltic Sea with explosives on board. Some of these ships were
bombed and strafed by Allied, usually Soviet, aircraft or torpedoed by Soviet
submarines. If you want accurate information about this go to www.feldgrau.com =
largest website, mainstream and tightly moderated, about the history of the
German Armed Forces 1918 - 45. Go to the SS/Waffen SS forum and post a request
there for information about these boatloads of prisoners. Feel free to say
that I referred you to the site. One of the moderators of the SS-Waffen SS
forum, Mark Yerger, is one of Europe's foremost authorities on those organisations.
Info provided by:alan newark braveheart180203@yahoo.com
German genealogy link & search: 
http://www.genealogy.net
CENTRAL EUROPEANS TO DOCUMENT WWII-ERA EXPULSIONS.
One week before the planned EU enlargement, six Central European countries agreed in Berlin on 23 April to put behind them lingering disputes over people displaced before, during, and after World War II, Reuters reported. Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia agreed to create a network of documentation centers on displaced people. "Together with our eastern neighbors, we have today set in motion a process of understanding," said German Culture Minister Christina Weiss. "For the first time since 1945, we have been able to put the debate at a political level over expulsion and forced refuge in the 20th century into a European framework." Plans announced last year by the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft, which unites ethnic German expellees and their families, to set up a center against expulsions prompted outrage among Germany's neighbors, who said their people also suffered as a result of the war.
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 8, No. 77, Part II, 26 April 2004
German victims
In his book, Crimes and Mercies (1997), James Bacque describes how he confronted New York Times reporter Drew Middleton with evidence that after the war, the U.S. starved to death over one million German POWs.
Bacque estimates that, during the Allied Occupation (1946-1950) an additional eight to twelve million Germans were deliberately starved to death. The war did not end in 1945. For five additional years, Germany was subjected "physical and psychic trauma unparalleled in history."
Letters from the famine years Germans in the Soviet Union (Ukraine) write their American relatives 1925-1937http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/info/book_reviews/boardman_review5.html Internment of Germans in America http://www.germanlife.com/Archives/2002/0208-01.html
"DISPLACED PERSON: Civilians for war reasons are outside of their national borders, i.e., Forced laborer, obligation-kidnapped, political refugees in Germany, approx. 8-10 millions. Problems:
"PROBLEM OF THE TRADE-OFF DEBT (MORSEY) only small embarrassment and dissociation in relation to the crimes of the dictatorship. Action of crew powers are seen as act of revenge: Reasons: individual innocence and/or own suffering; Hardnesses of the destructive crew politics; Crime of displaced person after release; and the Red Army obligation driving from east Central Europe, instead of moral basis of allied retaliation practice to recognize only set-off of debt." Computer translated by Babel fish. For more Deutschland 1945-1949, see: http://www.weinreichpeter.de/wissen/geschichte/zeitgeschichte/paper_gruendungbrd1.html"
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John Guzlowski writes: For more see: http://lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/2008/04/growing-up-polish-american-update.html |
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Germans in Ukraine
In the spring of 1944 these long treks started from all the colonist's villages occupied by the German army. They went to Poland on much the same route as their ancestors, 150 years earlier, came to Russia but in the opposite direction. Unfortunately, most of the colonists never made it to Germany. The Soviet army captured them and forced them to go back to the Soviet territory. They were never allowed to resettle their former villages again. Instead, they had to work in Siberia, in Kazakhstan, and in the cold north of Russia. Many people died on the way. Under Stalin's regime, 7 million people died before WWII began, and even more millions died during and after the war." More of this http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukrklieb/english/people/klotz.htm Born in Neu-Baden, Odessa By Eva Kiefer http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukrklieb/english/people/klotz.htm
North Dakota State University Library http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/index.html
http://www.u-boat-reich.co.uk - In depth look at German U-boats, U-boat Types, U-boat Commanders, U- boat Flotillas, Of WWII. Combat history, technical data and photos, development history. Visit these other sites also:
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Genocides:
According to this table, Slavs were killed at twice the rate of the Jews. Also, it shows the heaviest democide at over 12 million USSR population (Univ. of Hawaii). Remember, that Ukrainians were listed as citizens of USSR and Poland; and Hitler occupied Ukraine for 3 years before he entered Russia proper.
Greece
Red Cross Humanitarianism In Greece, 1940-45
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v09/v09p-71_Lang.html
Holocaust:
Who is and Who Isn't a Holocaust Victim?
http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/NPAJAC.htm
An extensive collection of Holocaust records was finally unlocked to the public on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007 more than 60 years after its creation to trace millions of victims of the Nazi regime. Article:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2976227,00.html
Jewish:
"Moscow saw an opportunity to sow discord in Ukraine and its propaganda accused the UPA, other Ukrainian nationalists and the 'Ukrainian' Police of anti-Jewish crimes and other crimes. But the 'Ukrainian' Police, (Ukrainische Hilfungspolizei/Ukrainian Auxiliary Police) were often not Ukrainians by origin at all, but represented many nationalities. For instance, Poles, Volksdeutsche (local Germans) and even Russians speaking the Russian language were often called 'Ukrainian' Police. " Quoted from: Jewish Holocaust in Ukraine by Andrew Gregorovich
Displaced Jews by Georgia Tech Jewish camps map German cemetary page provided by Jewishgen.org Kosher food at the camps Learning from history...Holocaust glossary Links & map: http://www.jewish-online.de/Eigene%20Web/shoah.htm
Jewish survivors' lists: http://www.cjh.org/family/pdf/SurvivorsCenter.pdf
Maps
My name is Angie Seffker-Cope. I am a librarian at UWM Libraries, American Geographical Society Library which is one of the largest map and geography libraries in the United States, second only to the Library of Congress.
You may view these maps at this link:
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/maps/index.html
This should be a great resource for genealogists and other researchers and I hope you enjoy!
For more information on my library, feel free to visit (online or in person): http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/index.html
American Geographical Society Library
UW Milwaukee Libraries
2311 E. Hartford Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/index.html
Hours: M-F 8:00am-4:30pm
acope@uwm.edu
(414)229-6282 / (800)558-8993 (US TOLL FREE) / (414)229-3624 (FAX)
Mennonites
Military records
Archives of Europe: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro1.html
