Displaced Persons -
DP Camps in Austria, T-Z
Talerhof
Here's a map of Abtissendorf and Thalerhof camp:
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/33-47.jpg
"During the First World War, internment
camps were set up, mostly for Serbs and other pro-Serbian Yugoslavs. Men, women,
the children and the elderly were displaced from their homes and sent to concentration
camps all over the Empire such as Doboj (46,000), Arad, Gyor, Neusiedl am See."
From: http://www.danceage.com/biography/sdmc_Concentration_camp#Austria-Hungary or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camp
"The people who lived on the northern
slope of the Carpathian Mountains (Lemkovyna), which is now in Poland and was
once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, have been subjected to severe and
much discrimination throughout many centuries. They have been forcibly relocated
and efforts have been made to eradicate all elements and traces of their distinctive
culture."...
"As they stumbled from the train into the sunlight, they found themselves
surrounded by guards riding on horses. They were forced by whips to walk
in their weakened condition to Talerhof, a concentration camp which was
about a 20 minute walk away. The guards carried whips and did not
hesitate to use them on those who lagged or fell behind. Those who tried
to escape were shot dead and their bodies were pushed into any
convenient ditch to join the bodies of those who had succumbed to the
brutal conditions."
From: http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/kr/taler.htm
10/24/06
I suspect the writer is mixing up WW II concentration
camps with the WW I ones. Admittedly the first were a
prelude to the second. The second type were (bad
German) vernichtungs lager- extermination camps,
while the first were internierten lager- internment
camps. Admittedly conditions were bad and the
Thalerhof mausoleum in the Feldkirchen Church cemetery
admits to nearly 2,000 deaths, I have never ever read
about or seen first person memoirs about "gas or
medical experiments." If you have some real
information on this I'd like to have it. The Austrians
may have been bad but they were not yet Nazis.
I do speculate that in WW II some of the Nazi officers
in the Carpathian Region were in fact from annexed
Austria and they delivered some pay-back for being
driven out in 1918. But I have no proof of this, it is
speculative. Paul Best, email: merida@snet.net
Hawker Hunter J-4094
Osterreichisches Luftfahrtmuseum (stored), Graz/ Thalerhof, Austria
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivors.html
WWW: http://www.tirol.gv.at/schule3.htm
Bistum Innsbruck, Diözesanarchiv, Domplatz 6, Postfach 582,
6021 Innsbruck
Provinzarchiv der Nordtiroler Kapuziner, Kaiserjägerstr.
6, 6020 Innsbruck
Stift Wilten, Archiv, Klostergasse 7, 6020 Innsbruck
Universität Innsbruck, Universitätsarchiv, Innrain 52,
6020 Innsbruck
Municipal office: Stadtgemeinde Spittal an der Drau
Tel: 0043 4762 5650 - 0
Fax: 0043 4762 5650 -156
Email: spittal@ktn.gde.at
"1945: Up to the end of war offer resistance against the terror of the Nazi regime, decided communist inside, to that its expression about also in the "Muehlviertler hasenjagd" finds and the KPOe brings large victims, approximately 160 communist inside come into upper Austria in the resistance around the life.... Death march of the Hungarian Jews (April). " Computer translation from Chronology of Teffling
Dear Olga,
I am from Argentine, and I have found your page after a long long search. Here, in my country, there is just a few information about the camps and all the history. I'd like to know if you could send me some information about Trofaiach camp, because I need it to know if my mother Juliana Stajdohar / Stajduhar was there between 1945-1948. She is from Slovenia. Please, any information send me it to lagrisel@yahoo.com.ar It's very important for me and my family, and you are the most important hope that I have in this moment. Thanks very much and sorry for my English...Julia Gonzalez
Dear Julia,
As I was doing research to help me translate my father's diary, I happened to come across the posting below which you placed on Olga Kaczmar 's web page. I was born in Trofaiach. My parents lived there during 1948-1949. I have lots of information about Trofaiach and would be glad to share that with you. John Zakelj St. Paul, Minnesota USA
Follow-Up: John, Miff and Julia have corresponded and have shared research. Great.
Viktring, near Klagenfurt, - refugees camped in muddy, tentless, plowed fields. 6,000 Yugoslavs, UNRRA team 332?, (British zone)
"The repatriations took place in late May and early June 1945, shortly after the Allied forces moved into Austria from Italy. If it were not for Barre's compassion, a further 6,000 Slovene refugees - all civilians, including 3,550 women and children - would have met the same fate.
"The Slovene soldiers and civilians who managed to flee Tito's communist Yugoslav forces, by crossing Slovenia's northern border into Austria, sought and received refuge with the British military in Viktring.
"On May 19, 1945, the civilian refugee camp at Viktring was placed under the command of Major Barre from Allied Military Government (AMGOT). A 38-year-old Canadian officer, Barre quickly grew fond of the Slovene inhabitants of his camp.
"On May 23, Allied Forces Headquarters told the Fifth Corps in Viktring that all Slovene soldiers were to be sent to Italy. With assurances of their safety, the unarmed soldiers initially went willingly - until the night of May 26 when a repatriated anti-Communist Serbian soldier returned to the camp with a horrifying first-hand account of the repatriates' true fate at the hands of Tito's Communist partisans. .. continued
Yugoslav Refugees in Camps in Egypt and Austria 1944-47 by John Corsellis
Vienna has its own page.
Villach, Team 336 (British zone), 2 camps: Villach on the Drau river and St. Martin on St. Martiner Strasse (Stadteil)archives
City Archive: Magistrat der Stadt Wien - MA 8 -
Wiener Stadt- und Landesarrchiv
Rathaus
A 1010 Wien 1post@m08.magwien.gv.at
Tel: +43 (1) 4000-84808 and +43 (1) 400099-84819
City Archive:- Stadtarchiv Villach
Widmanngasse 38
A-9500 Villach
Telephone: 43 (4242) 205 349
Villach
Fellach kindergarten
Hello Olga,
I have posted a nice series of pictures of the Villach-St. Martin Refugee
Centre on my website which you may wish to link to. http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographies/1914Edward/UnrraScrapbook/Villach/Villach.htm Regards, Miff Crommelin Miff Crommelin
Hello Olga,
I am delighted to find your website. I am searching for information about my Grandmother and my Mother who were in Villach St Martin from the years of 1944 to 1950. They had come there from Belaurus and I am in search of recovering our family stories. Would you be able to offer any information or assistance? Thank you, Blessings, Shaunessy Owen (Marchi)
Red Cross camps
My aunt was in charge of several camps in Austria, on behalf of the British Red Cross, first at Villach then in Vienna. She appears to have been for a while in overall charge of the British
run camps in Vienna. She was a prolific writer and I have a weekly letter from her to her mother throughout the 1945-6 period. I am preparing them for a project at my daughter's school. No-one apart from the staff is mentioned by name but the picture she describes of life in the camps is fascinating. Your advice on preparing these materials to be shared more fully by survivors of these times would be welcome. Peter Leevers
We hope to hear more from Peter in the future. Olga
1/1/06 Dear Olga,
You are the Mother Teresa of refugees. In May 1948, soon after fleeing from
Budapest to Vienna, I managed to slip into the British Zone at Muerzuschlag).
Naively I boarded a train to Salzburg where I thought a friend of mine
was. But I had absolutely no documentation and British MPs took me off
the train and politely escorted me to a transit camp at the outskirts of
Villach. I think I spent only about a week or less there while the Brits
established my political refugee status, etc. Now I wonder how could I
find out the name of this camp and locate someone whose memory is better
than mine about this place. Have you any suggestions? Will much appreciate
your advice in this matter...kind regards, the very best for the new year,
andrew dettre, e-mail interpress@optusnet.com.au
Tel: +43 (5574) 511-45005
FAX: +43 (5574) 511-45095
Vorkloster, Bregenz, L. Vorarlberg (French)
Vols / Wols, L. Upper Austria, (U.S.) See Wels below
Wagna in Südsteiermark or South Styria, see Leibnitz.
Weichselbaum Siedlung, Jews,
Weidmannsdorf, Camp C, (British zone) see Klagenfurt
Wegscheid / Maurice L - (US zone); UNRRA team 337; 57 Hungarians, Jews
Wegscheid / Vogscheid Tyler I Land Oberösterreich (Upper Austria) (U.S. zone)
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Land Oberösterreich, see Landesarchiv Linz.
Wels has its own page. (Oberösterreich Upper Austria)
City of Wels:
Magistrat der Stadt Wels
4600 Wels, Stadtplatz 1
Telefon: 0043 (7242) 235-0
http://www.wels-stadt.at/
Wiesenhof, in Absam municipality, in Innsbuck, (French zone),
Wolfsberg on the Lavant river, UNRRA team 329, former POW camp Stalag XVIIIA Hofendorf (?), (British zone)
Zell Am See is near Saalfelden, Pinzgau district, Lake Zellner See, (US zone). See Salzburg archives.
Municipal office: Stadtgemeinde
Zell am See
Brucker Bundesstrasse 2
A 5700 Zell am See
Tel: 0043 6542 766 -0
Fax: 0043 6542 766 -30
Email: office@gde.zellamsee.salzburg.at
Zeltweg (?) (British zone) - near Judenburg, Jews
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