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Wolfenbüttel / Wolfenbuettel (British zone) -Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel District.

During World War II, the city prison became a major execution site of prisoners of the Gestapo. Most of those executed were members of various Resistance groups.[5] One such victim was a Dom Lambert, a monk of Ligugé Abbey in France, who was beheaded there on 3 December 1943.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenbüttel

Outside of Old Town, there's one massive building that's a tourist hotspot in its own right: Jägermeister headquarters

http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=2142304

http://www.archiv.org.lv/baltic_dp_germany/index.php?id=212&lang=en

Wolfrathausen (US zone) See Foehrenwald; 5,000 Jews;

Wolfenbüttel is a district in southeastern Lower Saxony, Germany. Neighboring districts are (clockwise from the north) the district-free City of Braunschweig, the district of Helmstedt, the district of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt, and the districts of Goslar, Hildesheim and Peine. The district-free city of Salzgitter cuts through the district of Wolfenbüttel in the southwest.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenbüttel_(district)

During World War II the town was the site of a concentation camp which was liberated by the 36th Tank Batallion of the 8th Armored Division.

City archives: Stadtarchiv Wolfratshausen
Loisach-Ufer 1s
82515 Wolfratshausen
Tel: (08171) 76650
Fax: (08171) 76650

Wolfsburg, #2517, Land Niedersachsen (British zone)

Nueuengamme: The inmates were forced to work under grueling conditions in various locations across northern Germany; often transported between subcamps and specific job sites. Due to subsequent demolition of the Neuengamme camp system by the SS in 1945 including its records, the historical work is difficult and still incomplete.[4] For example, in 1967, the German Federal Ministry of Justice suggested that the camp operated from 1 September 1938 until 5 May 1945 and became part of the Sachsenhausen in June 1940.[5] The Neuengamme Memorial organization (German: KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme), an establishment of the Hamburg Ministry of Culture, Sports and Media, stated in 2008 that the empty camp was explored by British forces on 2 May 1945 and the last inmates were liberated in Flensburg on 10 May 1945.[6] According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the camp was established on 13 December 1938 and liberated on 4 May 1945.[2] Throughout World War II, millions of prisoners died in Nazi labour camps through mistreatment, disease, starvation and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labour. At Neuengamme, 1,700 people died each month in winter of 1944-1945, more than 50,000 in total.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_subcamps_of_Neuengamme

http://www.wolfsburg.de/politik_verwaltung/geschaeftsbereiche/kultur_bildung/museen_stadtgeschichte/stadtarchiv/

City offices: Stadtverwaltung Wolfsburg
Rathaus A
Porschestrasse 49
38440 Wolfsburg

Tel: 05361/ 28-0
Email: stadt@stadt.wolfsburg.de
buergerwuensche@stadt.wolfsburg.de

City archives: Stadtarchiv Rathaus,
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.

Wolterdingen near Soltau now forms part of the town Soltau. From August 1945 to March 1946 a Polish camp existed in Wolterdingen with the DPAC number 251 which was administered by the UNRRA Team 85. From April 1046 to April 1947 the camp was administered by the UNRRA Team 259, in May and June 1947 by the UNRRA Area Team 904 or 501. From July 1947 to June 1950 it was a Baltic camp with the DPACS numbers 51/251 or simply 51 and under the administration of the IRO Area Team 501. Submitted by: Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.

Wulfen (British zone) http://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/displaced-persons-camps.html

Wulzburg Wülzburg - Wülzburg is a historical fortress of the Renaissance-Age in Germany. It is about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the center of Weissenburg in Bayern.

City archives: Stadtarchiv Weissenburg in Bayern
Marktplatz 19
91781 Weissenburg in Bayern
Tel.: (09141) 907-221
Fax: (09141) 907-227
Email: Stadt@Weissenburg.de
Web: http://www.weissenburg.de

During World War I, Charles DeGaulle was imprisoned at the Wülzburg. The Nazis also used it as a prison camp during World War II; it was here that the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff was held for over a year before he died of TB.[1] After the war it was a refugee camp. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wülzburg]

 

Oct 3, 2018 6 We found this picture of my Mother-N-Law drawn by some one. I looked at the signature in lower right corner. [Looks like "Bechkous" Ukrainian ch symbol... or "FS..echkous"]
We found out from my husband's Aunt Helma who is from Wuerzburg..her husband my Mother n law's brother had these pictures of his sister's for his mother in Kevil, KY. Before he and Helma got married in 1948..she said a photographer did them the best she could remember. She is 91 and in good health living in Lawton, OK by herself.	Click to enlarge
Ken Lence kwl.tjl1980@gmail.com

Wulwerstedt in Ladkreis Börde in Sachsen-Anhalt.

Mayor's office: Burgermeister, Am Berge 186
39387 Wulferstedt
Telefon: (039401) 436

Web pages in German: http://www.vgem-westlicheboerde.de/verzeichnis/objekt.php?mandat=41696

For map see: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulferstedt

On 9/21/08 Dear Olga,

My name is Antoni Brzezinski. My parents were displaced  from Gdynia, Poland; by Germans in 1939. I was born in D.P. camp 2515 Wulwerstedt, Germany in 1943. While in Germany I was moved between various DP Camps, in 1945. I was registered in   249 D.P. Camp “PODLASIE” in Germany (according to info provided by ITS). Can anyone help me find info on Wulwerstedt?
Tony tbpsg@wowway.com

Wunstorf (Lower Saxony, British zone); See also Neustadt am Rübenberge

City archives: Südstr. 1
31515 Wunstorf
Tel.: (05031) 101-326
Fax: (05031) 101-360
Email: Stadt.Wunstorf@t-online.de

Wuppertal, Poles, today

Stadt Wuppertal - Bergische Universität

City archives: Friedrich-Engels-Allee 89-91
42285 Wuppertal
Tel: (0202) 563-4138
Fax: (0202) 8025
Email: STADTARCHIV@Stadt.Wuppertal.de

http://www.uni-wuppertal.de
oder bei den Mitarbeitern des Dezernates für Arbeits- und Umweltschutz der BUGH Wuppertal.
http://www.verwaltung.uni-wuppertal.de/dez6/
Alternativ Telefon 439-3737.
Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
Gaussstrasse 20
42119 Wuppertal

Würzburg / Wuerzburg, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian

Katherine Hulme collection at the Beineke Library, Yale University: Box 43 folder 655 Würzburg & Wildflecken camp 1945-46.

The Spessart Park is situated between Würzburg and Aschaffenburg

Article: "Letter from Weurzburg." New Yorker 24 (6 November 1948) 104-09. Inquire at New Yorker Magazine.

City archives / Stadtarchivs Würzburg
Neubaustrasse 12
97070 Würzburg
Tel: (0931) 373308
Fax: (0931) 373397
Email: info@wuerzburg.de
Web: http://www.wuerzburg.de/wue/kultur/stadtarchiv
http://www.wuerzburg.de/rathaus/stadtarchiv/

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.

My book (Das Nationalsoialistische Lagersystem) mentions:

*CC Kdo of Flossenbuerg established April 1943 with 40 prisoners, on Fuechsleinstr. 15, SS-Teilazarett only for 2-3 months in 1945, Type of work: engineering, Part of them worked in the Waldhaus Steinbachstal. The camp was closed on Mar 22,1945.

*Gefaengnis Prison

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I, with my family, lived at Weurzburg -- April, 1949 -June, 1949, please contact: Silvia Wolff

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Wurtzburg-Würzburg - Latvian refugee camp.http://www.archiv.org.lv/baltic_dp_germany/?id=12&lang=en
LVA, 2335. f., 1. apr., 402. l., 17. lp.

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3/21/05 Dear Olga,

I was looking at your website and found it very interesting. Congratulations on maintaining such an important website!

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

http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-31245-4.

Best regards, Mark Falzini

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11/24/2012

I saw a film Wurzburg was a city mass bombed....Alexandris Stipnieks left before the Soviet takeover being told he was on the to be killed list. I wrote about how he died.....you might want to post this link
because it is an ironic footnote.....

http://www.ausaboxing.com/BalconesNLaurelLLN.html

Esteban Stipnieks admin@ausaboxing.com

Wurttemberg

Muller, Ulrich. DPs in the American Zone of Wurttemberg between 1945 and 1950. Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 40 (1989): 145-61. (GERMAN)

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
Can you give me any information about this camp? I was adopted in 1945 and brought to USA. I found out my birth mother and five siblings lived in this camp until 1953. I am desperately trying to find them. My birth mother: Hildegard Gust; my sisters: Ingrid Gust, Gabriele Gust, Christa Gust , Angelika Gust and my brother: Martin Gust.
Sincerely, Joe DeRaad,/ (Lutz Gust) email: deraad@adelphia.net

Wurzach in Baden-Wurttemberg, (French zone), see Bad Wurzach

Bad Wurzach (Kreis Ravensburg)
Region DP French
DistriktSüd
Name/ Funktion/ Gebäude Adresse des Camps
DP-Camp "Salvator-Kolleg"

Zehlendorf is a suburb of Berlin in the former US sector.

is a locality within the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin. Before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform Zehlendorf was a borough in its own right, consisting of the locality of Zehlendorf as well as Wannsee, Nikolassee and Dahlem. Zehlendorf contains some of the most remarked upon natural settings in Berlin, including parts of the Grunewald forest and the Schlachtensee, Krumme Lanke and Waldsee lakes. Additionally, it has large affluent residential neighborhoods, some with cobblestone streets and buildings that are over 100 years old. It is one of the most expensive areas in Berlin for housing.

see: Berlin archives

Zeilsheim has its own page: Zeilsheim.html 12 miles west of Frankfurt on Main, Jews, severly overcrowded;

Zeven (see Seedorf)

City Archives: http://www.zeven.de/politik--verwaltung/buergerservice/aufgabenbereiche/archiv/MID_44564.html

Samtgemeinde Zeven, Nebenstelle Klostergang
Frau Luise Del Testa
Klostergang 3
27404 Zeven

Telefon: 04281 / 999800
luise.del_testa@zeven.de

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5/23/08 Dear Olga

Both my parents were in Germany during the war years. I was born in Zeven Germany in 1949. My sister Anna was born in Bad Rottenfeld (?) iin 1947.  We arrived in Australia mid 1949 on the Anna Salen which I think departed from Bremerhaven.

My father arrived in Australia  in 1948 on the Protea.  

I know my father was born in Tershiw, Stary Sambir either 1922 or 1923 in Ukraine His name was Wasyl Towarnicki.

My mother was born in Dwernik Ukraine in 1925 her maiden name being Paraska Gluck.

They spent the war years in Germany as Ostarbieters and met and married after the war was over.

I am hoping you may be able point me in the right direction/sites to obtain any information.  Both my parents are now dead and I am seeking any other family that may be left in Ukraine.

Thank you.

Marie Solyk, Australia. Email marie.solyk@bigpond.com

Ziegenhain, Jews

As I am preparing an exhibition about DP camp 95-443 Ziegenhain, Hesse, Kassel area, I am looking for photographs, information and documents about this topic.

Contact: Mrs. Waltraud Burger
Gedenkstütte und Museum Trutzhain c/o Magistrat der Stadt Schwalmstadt
Marktplatz 1
34613 Schwalmstadt
Email: WaltraudBurger@gmx.de

Zierenberg (US zone); Russian boy scout troops; Ukrainians; 85-160 Ukrainians http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/UkrIst3_1986/UkrIst3_1986.pdf

Zierenberg (Kreis Wolfhagen)
Region DP US; Distrikt 2
Name/ Funktion/ Gebäude Adresse des Camps Fliegerlager

Zopp - See Siedlung Zopp in Alsdorf - see British Zone - 1000 persons, Photos: http://www.alsdorfdamals.de/Alsdorf-in-Ortsteile/Siedlung-Zopp

Hello,

I m particularly interested in finding: Assembly Center N° 571 in Germany, and DP Camp 527
A.E.F. D.P. REGISTRATION RECORD
Desired destination: Canada
Assembly Center N°. 571
Thank you for any help you may provide.
Best regards, Slauw Terteka

 

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