Hello Olga My father and mother were both in Camp Gabersee after the war. I have plenty of pictures of life in Gabersee DP Camp. I was wondering if i could contact a website or find their name on any documentation of Camp Gabersee. Their names were: Munci Markowitz Herschel Rosenvasser. Thank you Gary RosenGandersheim (British
zone)
Ganghoffer
- in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany.
Submitted by: Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949:
Sorting family papers I came across these
documents of my late father.
You are welcome to post them on your site.
I have various photographs of the era, some definately of Naples and some of
an unidentified camp. If these are of interest let me know and I will send
them to you.
Robert Cosic robert@cosic.org.uk
Click to enlarge.
Marko Cosic Alien Registration Card page 2
Military Record Card
Marko Cosic DP Identity Card
Red Cross Travel Card
Geismar, Eichsfeld, Thuringen
Goettingen British zone: civilian workers camp,
Gebr. Ruhstrat,Tonkuhle, Geismar Strasse 62, 50 men and 170 women
Jan 22, 2021 Hi Olga;
I live in Canada and am trying to piece together our family tree. Was hoping you can assist in
directing me to various resources available.
Parents are Mykola Smalec (Born 1921 in Nowe Celo Lviv Oblast Ukraine) and Helen Charzcuk
(Born 1925 in Cholm Ukraine). Both were required to leave and work in Germany.
My father Mykola arrived in Germany Dec. 1941. Mother Helen most likely arrived around the
same time.
They were sent to DP camp in Geismar e22 Germany. I have their marriage certificate indicating marriage was conducted in Gottingen Germany and shows their home was at Geismar Landstrasse e22 D.P. Camp. Also, have some wedding pictures.
After the war, around 194-50, they went to Waltham Abbey England and worked in the greenhouses/farms in the Newgate Street Village. If you could assist or steer me in the direction to attaining more details, that would be
appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Below are photos provided by Smalec family Canada. Click to enlarge.
1. Mykola and Helen Smalec Wedding Sept. 1 1946
Gottingen/Geismar Landstrasse e22 D.P. Camp;
Front left; Dorothy Baczynski w/ flowers, Ivan Yarema, Bride Helen, Groom Mykola, lady/flowers?, Best man Wasil Baczynski, Anton Jaselsky.
2nd row left: Mrs. A Jeselsky, priest. Wedding witnesses Petrus Lytwyn, Michael Darlylo, not identified, young girl name unknown.
2.Mykola and Helen Smalec Wedding pic. Sept. 1,1946
Location: Gottingen Germany/Geismar Landstrass e22 D.P. camp. Exact location of weeding unknown.
Click to enlarge
3. Wedding in Gottingen Germany.
Persons,exact location,date,not known.
2nd from right front row; Helen (Charczuk) Smalec
Click to enlarge
4. Front left; Helen (Charczuk) Smalec; 2nd row left; Mykola Smalec; others not known.
5. Far Right; Mykola Smalec; other 2 men not identified. Germany
Geislingen, Estonians
Subject: Photos at United Nations archives:
We have photo #UN22339: DP girls residents of Geislingen IRO DP Camp near Stuttgart, Germany
Please let me know if you would be interested in obtaining hi-res scans ($3 each) or prints ($ 7 each). Best regards,
Clara Gouy, Photo Librarian, United Nations, photolibr@un.org,
Gelsenkirchen -
5 camps (British zone)
Gladbeck - 4 camps
(British zone)
Stadtarchiv Gladbeck
Willy-Brandt-Platz 2
45956 Gladbeck
Tel: (49)-2043-99-2700
Fax: (49)-2043-99-1417
Web: http://www.archive.nrw.de/home.asp?stadta-gladbeck
Submitted by: Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.
Glasenbach
Good morning:
I am looking for anyone who may have come in contact with Canadians who worked for UNRRA.
Ethel Ostry was the
principla welfare worker in Camp Glasenbach and the Director of
Camp at Schloss Langenzelle. Her final assignment was in Camp Fohrenwald;
Mrs J Henshaw was
with Ethel a Camp Camp Fohrenwald and later Director of the International
Children's centre on Chiemsee.
Giske Miss Francis.
Following excerpt from: http://www.9thrtr.com/individual/cordiner.htm
"Our last job, under 5 Div., was to protect the German population in the isolated
villages of the Harz Mountain area from the murdering, pillaging, raping
D.P's who were hiding in the dense forests atop the Harz, or were in D.P. camps
further north right up to Brunswick. By day the area was quiet; by night the
Germans lived in terror and great was their rejoicing if the 9th placed a guard
in their house or village.... Cyril Handley (C) moved to the village of Ringleheim
between Hannover and Goslar. They patrolled in half-track vehicles and
often slept in a farmhouse while acting as guard. He says, "The D.P's could
not understand why we protected Germans, and it got that they hated us." Submitted
by: Alan Newark Scotland
On 6/16/12 Hello Olga,
I came across your web page tonight whilst
I was looking for the displaced persons camp in Germany where
my mother in law was in 1945. She
said it was Ludeman or something like that. My husband
was born near there at the hospital in Goslar in 1945 so
I guess the camp must have been close to Goslar. We
recently visited Goslar but the Displaced Persons Camp
in Goslar is no longer there and I wonder if there is any
information about the Ludeman DP Camp. I do not
know if the spelling is correct. With
much thanks and in anticipation Kindest regards Krystine Krzywokulski tedkrys@bigpond.com
Reply: After the Second World War in 1945 belonged
to the British occupation zone of Goslar. The British military administration
established a so-called DP camps to house displaced persons (DP), The
camp was supervised by a team (Team 2913) UNRRA. Submitted by Anthony Schlega schlega.a@web.de
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11/3/11 Dear Olga,
Wow! what a masterpiece you’ve created.
Do you have anything related to the Estonian dpcamp nr. 15 in Goslar?
If I’m not mistaken it was situated in Haus Hessenkopf.
My Estonian mother, Elsa Mänd, stayed there in 1945
I hope you can help me I am trying to trace my mother’s
family history and I stumbled across your website.
My mother’s family migrated to Australia in 1949 from a German camp.
The family name was Demczyszyn and her two brothers were born in Germany in
different locations.
Her eldest brother Bodhan was born in Helmstadt and her younger brother
Roman in Goslav. My mother has distant memories of this time
as she was only a young child of 7 when she came to Australia and I think she
was in the camps from the age of 3.
I don’t know why they moved but I was hoping you could direct me
in the right direction to find out which camp they were in. Hopefully I could
add a post on the website and hopefully someone will see it and I can start to
fill in some of the missing pieces.
During the Allied bomb attacks,
Göttingen received comparatively little
damage. From July 1944, Göttingen experienced some heavier air attacks,
but these were mainly around the main rail station. The historic old town
was largely untouched. Overall, only about 120 deaths were caused by the
air attacks, a comparatively small number. The neighbouring cities of Kassel,
Hanover and Braunschweig, however, felt the full force of the allied bombing
experience. Göttingen at this point was crowded with bombed out refugees
from other areas. Also, because the city had many well-equipped hospitals,
Göttingen during the war had up to four thousand wounded German soldiers
being cared for. Göttingen was also fortunate in that before the American
army arrived on April 8th, 1945, all German combat units had left the area,
and so the city experienced no major fighting.
There was a concentration camp
for adolescents in Moringen which was liberated in 1945. In
1946 the authorities of the British Occupation Zone, to which Göttingen
then belonged, introduced a communal constitution which reflected the British
model. After the war the city and district of Göttingen joined the administrative
district (Regierungsbezirk) of Hildesheim. In a reform in 1973 the district
of Göttingen was enlarged by incorporating the dissolved districts of
Duderstadt and Hannoversch Münden.
Dear Olga
Thank you for creating such a wonderful website. Through it I have managed to
contact people that lived in the same camp (Lyssenko Camp in Hanover) as my father
Ivan Jarema (born 1921 in Nowe Selo, Lwiwska Oblast, Ukraine). My father died
when I was thirteen and I knew little about his time in Germany. I have filled
some of the gaps using your website for which I am very grateful.
I know that my Dad was taken in 1941 for forced labour. He returned to Ukraine
for a week or two in 1943 before going back to Germany. I don’t know what
work he did or where from 1941 to 1945. I think he may have lived with a woman
called Zuba Krajenko during this time. The photos taken in Göttingen suggest
he may have worked on the trains there - repairing and maintaining them. I know
that in 1945 he went to Lyssenko Camp and have met with a Ukrainian who was there
with him. They came over to England with many other Ukrainians in 1947 and were
based together in a camp in Newgate Street Village, Hertfordshire.
My Uncle Wasyl Jarema (born c1919) disappeared during the war and may have worked in Göttingen in 1941 on the national railroad. I would like to trace him and his family if possible.
I hope this is clear. Thank you for your brilliant website.
Please let me know if you can help me. I have attached some photos.
I would like to know who
the other people are in the photo with my Dad in Göttingen
in front of the train trucks. I would also like to know where in
Germany the studio photo with the church spire in the distance
was taken and who the other Ukrainians are.
Writing on the back of photo:
Worth Kaserne (camp) No. 22
Geismarlandstrasse (Geismarland Street)
Göttingen town
My
father Ivan Jarema at Eiswiese, Göttingen
I would also like to know where in
Germany the studio photo with the church spire in the distance
was taken and who the other Ukrainians are.
Work document for Lyssenko camp in Hannover, Feb 1, 1947 (after
the war).
Grensstrasse (British
zone)
Greven website in German; #3155, #31/155,
.....(Canadian troops acted as invasion army with the British Army entering Greven on March 30, 1945; became British Zone), Poles, Balts, Latvian
6/29/04
Dear Olga,
We have been searching the internet for my father and came across your
valuable site. My name is Natasha Elms. I was born in Greven in
or near a DP camp. All I know of my father is what my aunt told me.
His name is Janek Denisewicz or Denisiewicz. I have 3 photographs
of him, from what I was told he was born in or near Krakow.
After the war he worked at "Lager Munster" Westphalia for the
M/office IRO either for the British or Americans. Later he migrated
to America or Canada. My godfather, W. Borek, knew my father and the
last known address that have of him is 106 Wilkesbarre 18 New York.
I would love to know if you could help me locate or tell me anything
about him. I have wondered all my life. Thank You so much. Natasha
Rowland Crone remcrone@paradize.net.nz
8/30/05 Dear Natasha,
My name is Kristina Denisiewicz Cavalieri. My brother emailed this website
to me and the pictures I am looking at are pictures of my father. I was born
in a displaced persons camp in Germany and we later migrated to the United
States through New York and then migrating to Connecticut. I am the oldest
child of five children. I am truly stunned by this and hope my brother and
I can answer any question you may have. I am so sorry to tell you that our
father passed away from lung cancer. My hopes are that this email reaches
you and I can give you some peace and answer any question you may have. Sincerely,
Kristina Denisiewicz Cavalieri Kristina.Cavalieri@trincoll.edu
My brother, Mirek, is the one that found the website and is actively pursuing
this. Mirek's email is MiamiDenis@bellsouth.net
Do you know of any info on this camp or it's records? LSTam
This was my last camp in Germany from here we boarded the ship Gen. M.B. Stewart and came to New York in 10 days in Nov 1951 John
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March 23, 2012
My parents and I (name
Iwaninok) were in Camp Grohn from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1, 1951.....departure
on Dec. 2 for NY Ellis Island on the S.D. Gen. Sturgis. Baggage
allowance on board ship was 300 lbs per person, even children,
plus 30 lbs/person hand luggage.
Our immigration processing took place in the Funkkaserne
by Munich (more on that later) from Aug. 29 - Sept.
20, 1951
Following is some information from my mother's diaries of this camp:
Accommodations: women
and men separate. We were
on a 3rd floor attic space: 17 bunk beds with wooden
partitions and a curtain in front. Straw
mattresses and pillows, 3 blankets, no sheets.
Everyone was required to work 4 times at 4 hours each during
this time. Work
schedules were posted in all the houses. If you didn't
report, you lost your meal ticket.
Mother's first work was peeling potatoes in the kitchen with
30 women. Feeding
for about 4,000. Father was assigned to chopping wood.
Work was also required once you were on board ship. If you
registered early, the benefit was you could pick your job. Dad
became "2nd
secretary in charge" and Mom had the job of journalist
for the ship's daily newsletter (she spoke English).
If anyone wants to contact me, please send e-mail to Silvia Shanahan iwaninok@hotmail.com
Gronau, #3157, Mennonites, Poles
Gross Hesepe near Meppen,
4/13/05
Hi Olga,
I am trying to locate a DP Labor camp my family and I spent time in up until
1945. I believe we were liberated by the British and the camps name was Grosshesepe.
Can you help? Thanks in advance. Terry
Reply: The official name was in two words. There was a DP camp from 1945
until at least August 1948. Gross Hesepe today forms part of the community
Geeste, zip code 49744. Submitted by: Wolfgang
Strobel,
County archives: Kreisarchiv Landkreis Emsland
Herzog-Arenberg-Strasse 9
49716 Meppen
Phone: (49)-5931-44-460
Fax: (49)-5931-44-463
Email: landkreis@emsland.de
Web: http://www.emsland.de
Grossenbröde,
#1226 (Goesthacht in '49) (British zone)
Grunbuhl
Please read the
book Bring Forth the Children by
Yul Brynner. Yul Brynner was in Ludwigsburg / Grunbuhl DP camp
Gut Senden (British
zone)
