Displaced Persons -

DP Camps in Austria, D-G

Dietersdorf (near Judenburg), Municipality Fohnsdorf; (British zone) UNRRA team 335, Jews

Drau Valley province Drautal (Drau valley) (British zone). See general information about Carinthia

Forced repatriation was long and bloody. Under "Operation Keelhaul," 22,500 unwilling Cossacks & Caucasians resisted repatriation and 3 Russians committed suicide when American soldiers tried to force them on a repatriation ship from Britain (Wyman, p.65).

To make matters even worse, Eisenhower gave unqualified approval to such monstrous schemes as the Morganthau Plan which, had it been carried out completely, would have resulted in the deaths of roughly 40 million Germans and the swift Bolshevization of Europe. He insisted too on the notorious Operation Keelhaul, the "repatriation" of Russian, Ukrainian, and other peoples who had escaped Stalin's hell on earth behind the retreating German armies. Perhaps five million people were herded into trucks and railway boxcars and shipped eastward to certain death or worse. Operation Keelhaul was FDR's and Eisenhower's magnificent gift to Stalin and to his grim, satanocratic gulag empire; it was a culmination of friendship, fidelity, and accord; and it was a deed that for its sheer infamy is unmatched in the history of our nation and its armed forces. John Birch Society

Ebelsberg, Rehabilitation centre, Land Upper Austria, (U.S.Zone); See Linz
...Ebelsberg, Chronic sick unit, Land Upper Austria, (U.S..)
...Ebelsberg, Aged unit, Land Upper Austria, (U.S.)

See Linz archives, Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv

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5/18/10 This was in Eblesburg, Austria.  Käthe is the seventh one, from the left first row.  Her sister Grete is in the second row, second one in from left.  Thanks. Jackileen R. Rains jackileenrains@gmail.com

Enns "Green Shelter," Land Upper Austria, (US Zone),

UNRRA-Teams /Oberösterreich
Team 344 Enns

Staff and camp photos: Staff Billet

Enns - Green Shelter

Enns (Oberösterreich) Stadtarchiv
A-4470 Enns
Hauptplatz 16
Tel. (07223) [0043 7223] 5362

 

Feldgrau -Submitted by: Alan Newark braveheart180203@yahoo.com

From ~ www.feldgrau.com

Civil Internment Camps by dylan on 10 Feb 2004, 23:48
Internierungslager britisch; from: book by...Heiner Wember: Umerziehung Im Lager: Internierung und Bestrafung von Nationalsozialisten in der Britischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands. Dissertation, Klartext Verlag. Essen. 1. Auflage, 1991; 2. Auflage 1992, 3. Auflage 2007'.


British Zone, Germany: CIC - civil internment camps

no1 Neumunster
no2 Sandbostel
no3 Fallingbostel
no4 Recklinghausen
no5 Paderborn
no6 Neuengamme
no7 Hemer
no7 Eselheide
no8 Westertimke
no9 Esterwegen
Esterwegen : prison camp
Adelheide: no1 Civil Internment Settlement
Bad Nenndorf : Militaisches Verhorzentrum.
Fischbek No2: War Criminal Holding Centre.

Camps British Austria :

Wolfsberg
Weisenstein

American zone - In der amerikanischen zone entstanden die ersten internierungslager in:

Dachau
Hersbruck
Garmisch Partenkirchen
Natternberg
Moosburg
Straubing
Platting
Stephanskirchen und
Altenstadt
... kurze zeit spater eines in Darmstadt (...short tiime later one in Darmstadt).

 

Feffernitz bei Feistritz Lager (Weissenstein) - (British zone) Hungarians

6/1/07 Dear Olga,
 
Thank you for you work on maintaining the DP Camp website.  I was extremely excited to find it.
 
I would like to provide you information on a DP camp my father's family lived in 1945-1947. My father's family DP Identification lists it as: "Autrich, Feffernitz bei Feistritz Lager".  He always referred to it as Feffernitz (Weissenstein).  It was close to Graz in the British zone.  I have enclosed a picture of the main entrance to the camp.  The camp residents were exclusively Hungarians.  
 
I have a variety of documents from his stay there and a videotape discussing his war and post-war experience.  He wrote a novel during his stay that is set in the camp and is about a Boy Scout troop.
 
I am currently trying to write a book about my parent lives, and have the first draft of the chapter about his stay in this camp. If anyone has any information they could share with me about this camp, I would greatly appreciate an email. Thank you for your assistance,
 
Kitty Zoltai Gogins kgogins@mindspring.com
Minnesota, Photos enclosed: Click to enlarge.

Feffernitz Main Entrance 1946		Feffernitz Building 1946
My grandmother taking milk to neighbors		Boy Scouts camping 1946
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My father started the Boy Scouts troop in 1946.

 

Any assistance on Folzgarten would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, Luci Lebedew

Olga's reply: See Volksgarten.

The pilgrimage place is situated at theother bank of the river (municpality Ardning). See Admont for archives.

Dear Olga !
When I tried to learn more about the DP camps in Austria (especially in Styria), I found your great Website, where I saw the pictures of John and Miff. So, my question is, if you own pictures (or information in general) about the camps in "Admont" and "Frauenberg", both in Styria (British occupation zone) or if you know somebody, who lived in one of these camps?

The location of Frauenberg is not known exactly by me (there are more than one village with the name), but I think it is the camp near Admont, that was a former Nazi "labour education camp" (capacity: 200 persons). There exist eye witnesses of the usage for refugees.

Different Frauenberg villages in Styria are near Kapfenberg and Leibnitz (maybe a name conflict ?).

Tony Bodo (abodo@netnitco.net ), a former inhabitant of several Austrian DP camps posted some information, for example under: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/croatiangenealogical/message/60 . Many thanks, Klaus Fohringer

UNRRA Team 191 Glasenbach:

P. Gullion
V. Nichols
C. Schuffart
P. Porges
E. Geiger
J. Heynderick
J. Dekelper - Dr.
J. Luton - Dr.
Ethel Ostry was the principla welfare worker in Camp Glasenbach.
Glasenbach - Team 191

 

11/6/04 Sg.Frau Kaczmar!
With interest I read your webpage which listed DP camp Glasenbach. We are searching for our relatives, they were there between 1948-1950, then migrated to Canada.
ANDREW STABINS lived at 8526 TENTH Ontario, Norval ON L0P 1KO?
Mother: Anna Hubicka, born 1915 in Stecniza, near Lisko, Poland married Mr. CZERNECKYJ, immigrated 1948-50 fram Salzburg to Canada;
Brother/Sister:
Bohdan Czerneckyj, born in Salzburg
Oksana Czerneckyj, born in Salzburg
Bobby Czerneckyj, born in Canada.
Diffent spellings: Czerneckyj, Czernecky, Czernecki?

Kind regards from Austria: Franz HUBICKA, Roseggertrasse 23, A 5020 Salzburg

Above photos submitted by Klaus Fohringer Click to enlarge.
Dear Olga Here is a picture from dp Camp GLASENBACH /Austria with Lithuanians from Salzburg to Munich /Germany to Canada, datet 27.December 1947 Kind regards! G.Rieck Barcelona, Spain

Gnadenwald, Gnadenwalder Hoff, near Innsbruck, transit camp (French zone)

Univ allowed DPs to register for classes. 200,000 Croatian escaped from Tito to Graz.

Photos of city

Graz city archive Magistratsdirektion - Stadtarchiv
Abteilungsleiter: Dr. Gerhard Marauschek
Schiffgasse 4 / Entenplatz 3a, 8011 Graz
Sekretariat: Waltraud Hary
a Tel.: 0043/316/872-2261

Stadtarchiv Graz, Hans-Sachs-Gasse 1, 8010 Graz
Tel. (0316) [0043 316] 872 2230

Bistum Graz-Seckau, Diözesanarchiv, Bischofsplatz 4, 8010 Graz

Diözese Graz-Seckau
A-8010 Graz, Bischofsplatz 4
Tel. (0316) [0043 316] 8041 213, 214;
Fax (0316) [0043 316] 8041 303

Karl-Franzens-Universität, Universitätsarchiv, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz

Dear Ms. Kaczmar:
In my book, Resistance, Imprisonment, & Forced Labor: A Slovene Student in World War II (Peter Lang Publishers, 2002 and 2003) I describe in the last chapter (Chapter 15) the life in the DP camp Studentenlager Hochsteingasse 37 in Graz, Austria. I thought that you may be interested in reading my account of the life there from its beginning to my departure in July 1950. The book I mention covers my war years and a few years before that. Not much is in the literature about the DP camps, your information is very useful. With regards, Metod M. Milac mmilac@syr.edu; Fax: 347-521-6303
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TIME IS RUNNING OUT! Nov. 4, 2007

Francis 'Jan' Lengyl (Lendyl?) was a Hungarian refugee in Graz and possibly had a sister called Ruth.  Please let me know where I can find details of people who were held in these camps 1946 -50.  My mother Octavia Buchta (Austrian)  lived near these camps and said she worked alongside Jan and his sister in a garment factory.  They then came to England where Jan went on as a refugee to USA possibly posing as an Austrian to start a new life.  He is my father and I would like to contact him if at all possible.
Thank you. God Bless.
M Chadwick selfcater@cornwall-county.com



FL Graz Ursulinenkloster 1900 (ev..-DP Warenhaus) (Urseln)	FL Graz Ursulinenkloster 1960 (Urseln)	FL Graz Ursulinenkloster (Urseln)

Gusen (the terrible DP camp)

See Linz archives, Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv

Municipal office: Gemeinde Mauthausen
Marktplatz 7
A 4310 Mauthausen

Tel: 0043 7238 2255 - 0
Fax: 0043 7238 2255 - 30
Email: gemeinde@mauthausen.at