Emslager KZ

"In summer 1933, the three concentration camps Börgermoor, Esterwegen and Neusustrum were opened, located close to the Dutch border, initially containing about 4,000 political prisoners. In Börgermoor, prisoners wrote the song of the Peat Bog Soldies ("Lied der Moorsoldaten"). After being closed as concentration camps in 1934 (Esterwegen 1936), these and four new camps were put under the control of the judicial authorities and became the Emsland penal camps. In 1938 eight new camps were built. Six of them stayed penal camps till the end of WW II, nine others were used for Prisoners of War from the Soviet Union, Italy, France and other countries from 1939 till 1945. In 1944/45 two of these camps became satellites of Neuengamme concentration camp. The Emsland camps had their own subsidiary forced-labor camps in northern Germany, Norway and western France. A total of 70.000 penal prisoners and more than 100.000 Prisoners of War were incarcerated there. "Best regards Kurt Buck

"While the Nazis generally treated the non-Soviet P.O.W. according to the rules of the international laws, the Soviet soldiers were actually killed. They reduced their food supplies far under the subsistence level, let them starve, freeze or die of illnesses. The so-called Russian camps were often blocked from the outside world because of epidemics. You can gather from the lists of graves and documents that 14,250 to 26,250 Soviet soldiers are supposed to be buried on the six war graveyards in the Emsland." This paragraph and a wealth of information is on this site:
http://www.diz-emslandlager.de/dizen01.htm

DIZ Emslandlager
Wiek rechts 22
26871 Papenburg
Germany
Phone: +49 - 4961 - 916306

P.O. Box 1132
26851 Papenburg
Germany
Fax: +49 - 4961 - 916308
e-mail: mail@diz-emslandlager.de

Erlangen

http://stadtarchiv.erlangen.de

Stadtarchiv und Stadtmuseum
Cedernstr. 1
91054 Erlangen
Tel. (0 91 31) 86-2219, 86-2885
Fax (0 91 31) 86-28 76

3/18/06 Dear Olga ,
I am doing research for a small historic exhibition covering the history of my suburb Eselsberg which is a part of Ulm, Germany. Our planned exhibition should cover the last 150 years and parts of this history are the DP Camps and the DPs themselves, on the Eselsberg where the former Wehrmacht Barracks Hindenburg Kaserne and some installation called Oberberghof. Poorly is known about this and I would like to cover this in our exhibition too. I remember some words of my grandmas, who told me about the DPs in the Hindenburg Kaserne, were she worked some times as a scrubwoman, but she did not told about the circumstances and the people there, only that she was lucky to earn some money in bad times. Email: Christian at Christian.Gollmar@gmx.de

The Krupps works at Essen

Forced labourers at Cloister Ettal during the second World War
After 1940, the labor office in Weilheim, assigned five Poles (along with the two children of a married couple), six Ukrainians and thirteen Russians to work in our monastery. In the subsequent years, thirty-five French prisoners of war (but not all at the same time) were also assigned to work at our monastery. After 1943, sixteen of these French war prisoners continued to work at our monastery as "Civilian Workers" and were duly compensated for their labor. Indeed, as "Civilian Workers", the sixteen French employees of the monastery could return home during their vacation and they could also transfer their earnings back to their families in France. Many of these transfer bank receipts were found in the monastery's administrative records.

As from 1940, the labour office in Weilheim assigned foreign workers to work in the different monastery concerns. These foreign workers took the place of the monks and lay employees who had been called to join the military service. For the most part, the foreign workers were assigned to work in the monastery's agricultural undertakings, the cloister sawmill as well as in the cloister and school kitchens. The "Heimschule", the monastery's school, was confiscated by the state and renamed "Deutsche Heimschule" and ran under the auspices of the state.
For more of this see: http://www.kloster-ettal.de/dokumentation/uk-stand-der-nachforschungen-13-08-2000.htm

Eutin / Eutein

1/6/08  Amazing, Dear Olga,
I happened upon your website this morning and chills went up and down my spine. I am doing research regarding my mother's imprisonment in Nazi Germany's concentration and labor camps. Her memory is sharp but the spelling of the camps and towns are not. I came across the information I need and more. I want to say THANK YOU for establishing this website. I think I remember coming across a page with gravesites. I have a sister buried in Eutein,  Germany. I was wondering if there is a website on this. I came up short.

My mother is of Romanian descent. Her village was 3 miles North of Siget, not far from Elie Weisel. She was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and then to Lubberstadt and worked in a munitions factory. She was shot by British soldiers who thought the train full of prisoners were Nazis trying to escape. The British sergeant who helped her and her cousins settle in Eutin and get medical attention was named Ernest Finch. He was helpful in getting her settled in the US. My family is Jewish, so I assume my sister Helen Caterina Grosz or Gross is buried in the Jewish Section in Eutin. She died at 5 weeks old.
Thanks again for all you've done. Es Goodman columbo1@cox.net

Fallingbostel prisoner of war camp Stalag XIB / 375

Story and photos of the Military Museum - http://www.fallingbostelmilitarymuseum.de/stalag/stalag.htm

Once again Ukrainians aren't mentioned. If Polish and Russians were there, 3000 Soviet prisoners were buried there -- so there must have been Ukrainians there.

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Excerpts from: SEARCHING FOR MY DAD, by David J. Fleischer (Son of 3AD WWII veteran Neil Fleischer, 143rd Signal Co)

• Stalag XID, which was within sight of the Stalag XIB and had one purpose; to hold Russian and Ukrainian prisoners. The Russians despised the Germans and the Germans despised the Russians. For this deep hatred the Germans provided special accommodations for their Russian prisoners. During 1941 and 1942, over 33,000 Russians arrived at Stalag XID. The Germans didn't bother to build barracks for their Russian captives. They had them dig holes in the ground. These holes were their "homes" during their first winter in Germany. My research has shown that some Germans considered this the easiest way to handle the prisoners. When they died, the holes were just filled in. Of the over 33,000 Russians that arrived at the camp, only 1,800 remained alive at the war's end.

• Another district camp was Stalag XIC; it was part of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The camp where Anne Frank and so many others died.

• Now back to Stalag XIBThe war was closing in on the Germans. Stalag XIB became a central camp and very over-crowded. Prisoners were moved from other camps as the Allies pushed in from the East and the West. At this time the German army was short of able-bodied men so the camp was guarded by middle-aged men and not the young crack troops of Hitler's earlier years. These men were tired and probably didn't want to be there either.

Liberation did come on April 16, 1945 when a reconnaissance troop of the 8th Hussars, part of the Famous British 7th Armored Division (the "Desert Rats") found the camp.

For more of this story, see: http://www.3ad.com/history/wwll/memoirs.pages/fleischer.htm

 

Ferramonte (See Italy archives)

Feuchtwagen (near Dinklesbuhl)

1/13/2009 Dear Olga,
 
Here is enclosed the foto of the: "Arrival of the "migrants" in Feuchtwangen 1940.
 
The inscription on the back In German it says, "Ukarinische Umsiedler in Feuchtwangen", dated  8th May 1940 from Mrs. Deininger
 
thanking her very much - she allows to publish it. The name of the guesthouse where this foto was made was "Alte Post" (Old post).
 
All the best,
Angelika

Click photo to enlarge

Flossenburg was a camp in the hills above the village of Floss in Bavaria near the Czech border.  The camp was established in 1938 to assist an SS firm which operated a large granite quarry nearby.  Most inmates were worked in the quarries or nearby Messerschmidt factories.  More than 110,000 prisoners passed through Flossenburg and its subcamps.  It is estimated that up to 45,000 died, many of them during the evacuation of the camp in 1945. Copyright © 2001 Edward Victor

http://www.flossenburg.be/

http://www.edwardvictor.com/Holocaust/Flossenburg.htm

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blflossenburg.htm

http://auschwitz.dk/Canaris/id15.htmhttp://www.depts.drew.edu/chs/wgallery1/wgallery1.htm

11/15/07 Dear Ms. Kaczmar

On the request of the Hnizdovsky Family I'm trying to find any information about the Chapel erected at Flossenburg Consentration Camp. A elderly lady said that J. Hnizdovsky the Ukrainian artist either drew a painting, or made a stained glass for the chapel. We are trying to research this. Thank you for any help or any leeds. 

Stepha Hryckowian stephahry@mac.com

Landkreis Forchheim
Stadtarchiv Forchheim,
St.-Martin-Str. 8, 9130
Forchheim, Postfach 85,
91299 Forchheim

5/13/05 Hi Olga:
I am trying to find out information on my father-in-law, Simon Masnyk. He was originally from Lubaczow and was taken as a forced labourer by the Germans. He remembers being in Forhheim and Erlangen. He immigrated to Canada around 1952. He was in Belgium for a time prior to coming to Canada working in the mines. He was born in October of 1922. Do you know of any DP camps that were in either of those Towns in Germany. Thank you for your help. Lorena Masnyk lmasnyk@canismalus.com

Frankfurt

Fränkische Landeszeitung (newspaper) article dated Nov. 27, 1946:
Headline: "Number of kidnapped persons"
Dateline: Frankfurt.
"All together 550,372 kidnapped persons were on 30 October in the US zone of Germany. In October 28,408 persons were returned to their homeland; 2,453,789 kidnapped persons were repatriated and 8,508 settled in Germany."

Freiberg

Freising

kdo. Dachau, Freising, Landrat, aircraft industry

Friedelreut has its own page

Freital

French Chapel

French Chapel of Oflag VI A The building complex is first used as a camp for displaced persons and later to house expelled persons and finally, until 1994, as Belgian barracks.

Frindorf see Kirchenholtz

Gehlenbeck Nordrhein-Westfalen

Godenau - The army ammunition depot Godenau Submitted by: Alan Newark Scotland

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This was followed in Godenau, as in many similar systems also, the takeover of the shaft with the premises by the Wehrmacht.

This began in 1935 with the renovation and expansion work on the establishment of Army ammunition factory (mine) Godenau. For the new task have been setup in days various ammunition chambers for the storage of finished products and powders. As a new headframe is 1938 24 m high reinforced concrete structure was built.

Outside the bay area further plants have emerged. Between 1936 and 1938 the village Limmer, the production area was built to the west with various workhouses and industrial buildings. On the southern edge of Godenau the Wehrmacht established an extensive labor camp where the workers were housed. In this context, it also came back on the use of foreign and forced laborers. For Godenau an occupation with an average of around 400 workers is documented.

1938 began the production and accumulation in the Heeresmuna. Mainly cartridges and small parachutes are manufactured here. The operation ran until the end of the war. On 8 April 1945 reached Associations of the U.S. Army the area, ending the Second World War for this region.

As of 1945:
The surrounding area has been handed over shortly after the war according to the contract by the Americans to the British.The Allies began in 1946 with the demilitarization of the system. The embedded powder stocks were burned. In October 1947 there was a serious incident from underground. Here, around 3,400 t powder exploded. Also at the mouth hole of the shafts came thereby to destruction of reinforced concrete headframe has been destroyed.

Later, all parts of the ammunition depot walked in civil-use properties. The bay area is used commercially today. Between 1984 and 1986, "Desdemona I" was filled in July 1987. From the former labor camp has become a residential area.The production area could develop with various different companies after the war in a commercial area.

Condition:
Diverse historical factory buildings are still preserved. Almost all are used and are depending on the use and ownership in different states. The historical uniform and typical construction is, however, clearly be seen everywhere. This is evident especially in the former manufacturing area. Today, various companies use the historic building. These were new modern buildings in and around the grounds. Over the years, the farms stretched from beyond the original factory border.

Access:
The areas of the production area and the labor camp, with the exception of private land, freely accessible. Contrast, the bay area is locked as company property
The army ammunition depot (Bw) Godenau

Gosen - Krs. Beeskow-Storkow - Russian zone

Beeskow (Lower Sorbian: Bezkow) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, and capital of the Oder-Spree district. It is situated on the river Spree, 30 km southwest of Frankfurt an der Oder.

Prison - Straflager

Goslar

Gross-Rosen had 70 subcamps

Concentration camp in Lower Silesia opened in August 1940 for Polish male prisoners. Initially a subsidiary of Sachsenhausen, by May 1941 Gross-Rosen became an independent concentration camp. On February 13, 1945, the camp was liberated by the Soviet Army.

" Sometimes we slept three deep in the mud of the barracks," an inmate related. "We were too weak to move out the dead, too weak to move ourselves, so we slept with the bodies." All the inmates were vermin-infested and many were covered with huge, open sores."

12/15/04 Dear Olga,
Can you help me? I'm trying to locate information about my father,Tadeusz Lech-Bielinski, an artist who survived Stutthoff, Gusen and Matthausen by painting and sketching for the German guards. He came to Belgium as a displaced person. Between 1949 and 1952 he immigrated to Australia on assisted passage. I have looked through passenger lists available on the net without success. Lucy Elliott

Gustavsburg (see Mainz)

A Zwangsarbeiter, slave labour camp, at Gustavsburg near Mainz, Hessen, Germany. The camp provided workers for the neighbouring heavy machinery company. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/rafs-wartime-reconnaissance-photos-go-online-in-new-archive-1825926.html?action=Gallery&ino=2

 

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