City archives - Stadtarchiv http://www.dachau.de/neu/kultur/stadtarchiv.htm<
8/21/06 Ms. Kaczmar,
I am co-authoring a memoir with a Holocaust Survivor who, following liberation during a Death March in the vicinity of Bad Nauheim, joined up with an UNRRA team based there and shortly thereafter accompanied them to their new assignment at Dachau, where he served as a driver and general assistant for several months. We are seeking to locate the number of this UNRRA team and the name of its leader, a British woman. She was extraordinarily kind to him and was instrumental in helping him recover from 4 years of deprivation. With her assistance, he was able to avoid being assigned to a DP camp himself. Yet, with the passage of time, he can no longer remember her name, those of other team members or the Team #.
In addition to our continuing efforts to locate this information from various sources, including the UNRRA archives in New York and the Gedenkstatte & Museum at Dachau, I wonder if you have any knowledge or resources that could be of help? Thank you for any assistance, and for your extraordinary efforts to document DP camp history. Daniel Kadden, Ph.D, Olympia, WA, email:dkadden@comcast.net
UNRRA Team 546 Director was A.H. Sutton
See: http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographies/1914Edward/UnrraScrapbook/Teams/Teams5.html
Regards, Miff Crommelin
Dannenberg
City archive: Stadtarchiv
Darmstadt
Address: Schloss, D-64283 Darmstadt
Veröffentlichungen:
von Hahn, W. (1968) Darmstädter Familiennamen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts.
(Nachdruck)
Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger (Giessener Beiträge zur deutschen Philologie
69)
Grossherzoglich Hessisches Haus- und Familienarchiv Darmstadt (see state archives)
Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen
Kirche in Hessen und Nassau (ev.)
Address: Ahastr. 5a, D-64285 Darmstadt, Tel. (06151) 663428
Bestand: u.a. Kirchenbücher, Militärkirchenbücher
Veröffentlichungen:
Prätorius, O. (1939) Kirchenbücher und Standesregister im Land Hessen.
Darmstadt
Evangelische Kirche in
Hessen und Nassau
Kirchenverwaltung
Zentralarchiv
Paulusplatz 1
64285 Darmstadt
Phone: (06151) 405-0
Fax: (06151) 405-440
7/17/07
Zofia Schurik and her
husband, Stefan Schurig, were residents at 61 Darmstadt, Beckstr 76, however
moved to 64347 Griesheim, Lichtenbergweg 10 in 1983. If
anyone has any information about this, please write Mark Norek events@lifesanadventure.com.au
10/9/09 Dear Olga,
I am looking for names and information on the students of the Professional Betar
School in Darmstadt that existed from 1947-48. The director was Samuel MIlek
Batalion and the Betar Instructor was Moshe Mordchelewitz. Most of the students
made Aliya to Israel and some stayed in Germany.
My website with all the pictures of the students is: www.batalion.net/BetarSchool
Thanks, Lea Dror-Batalion ldror@batalion.net
Dassel (British zone)
Datteln (British zone)
Davensberg (British zone)
Dedelsdorf / Dedelstorf, #242, Land Niedersachsen (British zone), Balts
I have spent the last few days reading "DP's Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945-1951" by Mark Wyman, "Walking Since Daybreak" by Modris Eksteins and also "A Woman in Amber" by Agate Nesaule. Quite enlightening and sometimes quite painful, though I don't know why. The memory of those times is imprinted on my heart but very lightly in my memory! My sympathy, especially, for Agate Nesaule is quite profound, almost as if I have had similar experiences to hers. Hans Simons / Australia
Hope these odd recollections help! Cheers, George Carrington
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Archives Record Group: PAG 4 Box 5-13: District 3: Deggendorf
"Serving as a transit station for 700 refugees awaiting passage to Palestine, the Deggendorf Jewish Community DP Camp No. 7 was established on February 20, 1945, in Bavaria at the site of a former Nazi concentration camp. Camp money is believed to have been introducd in 1945." From Displaced Persons Camp Money by Frank Passic and Steven A. Feller.
06 Aug 2003 From: Georg Haberl
Dear Mrs. Olga Kaczmar,
I visited your website about DP camps 1945 - 1949 in Germany. I'm interested in the Camp 7 - Deggendorf with the outside camps Mietraching and Mainkofen-Natternberg, near Deggendorf. The cause: I'm born 1934 in Degggendorf and research all about the fights of the US-Units in my home-area April/May 1945 and also the following occupation-time. Therefore I'm also interested in all informations, reports, documents and photos about this camp 7 - Deggendorf.
Can you help to whom I should write with my requests? Have you the address of the United Nations relief and Rehabilitation Administration Archives? (See address page for UN archives)
Please excuse, but I must correct some informations about the camp:
It was not established on Febr. 20.1945. Deggendorf was conquered by the 26th YD-Div. at April 27.1945. So the camp must be established May/June 1945!? The camp was not a former Nazi concentrations camp. All the buildings were built 1863 as a hospital. From the beginning of the years 1930... it were used as barracks from the German Wehrmacht (Army), special as military-school for "Unteroffiziere" until the end of war.
I'm very interested in your reply and I hope you can help with my researches. And please excuse my faults in your language. Sincerely Georg Haberl / Germany.
Dear Olga,
Hello, my name is Leslie Rosenbush. According to several members of my family, my father was interred at Deggendorf D.P.
camp post WW II. Would you know where I can turn for a camp list perhaps divulging
more information about my father who spoke so little of his wartime experiences
in the camps, understandably traumatized by his enslavement and murder of his
family. Any help in this direction would be most appreciated. He was in the following
camps as well: Budzin, Mielece, Vielicke, Majdanek, Flossenburg and freed by
the Russian army at Theresintadt. Do any records or lists survive which may document
these interment s either by the Germans or Russians? Where may I turn to? Thank
you in advance for whatever help or sources you can provide in my search.p.s.
have you heard of a place called "skrent" relating to d.p. interment? Thanx rozebush.
Olga's reply: Budzin, Mielece, Vielicke, Majdanek are in Poland.
Majdanek concentration camp:
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/Majdanek/Majdanek.html
City archives: Stadtarchiv Delmenhorst, Rathaus
27747 Delmenhorst
Tel: (49) 4221-992014
Fax: (49) 4221-991170
Sumitted by: Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.
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Dear DP Camps, Yours is a wonderful, important website, thank you so much. My family were in 10 different DP camps over 6 years before immigrating to Australia in 1949. My family was in Delmenhorst between June 1948 and June 1949. Here is a photo that shows my Ukrainian mother in a kindergarten photo at Delmenhorst. She is in front of the teacher on the left. A sign can clearly be seen in the background. I love the way that everyone is impeccably dresses and groomed despite their circumstances. Best regards, Karen Bijkersma karenbijkersma@hotmail.com |
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Denklingen Hospital (British zone), mostly Poles
Dessau - in Buchenwald Kdo. Dessau was a transit camp,
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessau
Detmold camp for Lithuanians & Latvians (2 camps-
State archives: Nordrhein-Westfälisches
Staatsarchiv Detmold
Willi-Hofmann-Str. 2
32756 Detmold
Tel: (49) 5231-766-110
Fax: (49) 5231-766-114
Email: andreas.ruppert@lav.nrw.de
Web: http://www.archive.nrw.de/home.asp?detmold
Dieberg
Telefon: 05441/909-333
Telefax: 05441/909-252
E-Mail: falk.liebezeit@stadt-diepholz.de
10/13/04 Dear Olga,
I thank you for placing your website on the web. I have had some success checking up on my family history, in particular my grand parents and father when they arrived in Australia. However I have noticed something that I am having some dead ends on and was wondering whether you would be able to shed some light on it for me. On my birth certificate it says that my father was born in Deipholtz, Germany. I have not been able to locate the city in Germany anywhere, is it possible that the name of the city was spelt wrong ? What are you suggestions on how I can further my search? I thank you for your assistance and any advice that you could give me. Yours Faithfully Dannielle Davies- Wilkins (nee Tomasiewicz)
Diestedde (British zone)
Dinkelsbuhl has its own page written by John Sklepkowycz who has passed away.
Fortified by the emperor Henry I., Dinkelsbuhl received in 1305 the same municipal rights as Ulm, and obtained in 1351 the position of a free imperial city, which it retained till 1802, when it passed to Bavaria. Its municipal code, the Dinkelsbuhler Recht, published in 1536, and revised in 1738, contained a very extensive collection of public and private laws.
DP camps in Dinkelsbuehl, Bavaria1945 - 1949,
The following information provided by Ms. AB in Germany:
5 May 1945: In a report of Headquarters Military Government - US-Army on Displaced Persons (Kreis DINKELSBUEH) TOTAL 6081 persons of different nationalities were mentioned. So in a continued report on DPs in centers in Dinkelsbuehl and immediate vicinity, TOTAL 627 persons were registered.
The different places of the DP camps in Dinkelsbuehl:
Guesthouses:
Dinkelbauer (Spelt Farmer)
Brauner Hirsch (Brown Deer)
Kornschranne (Grain House)
Schools:
• Former "Oberrealschule" (Secondary School) - Today Vocational School, Noerdlinger Strasse 22
• Former "Fliegerschule" (Flying School)
• Hats-Factory Peschel - Today City's Department for Elecricity, Rudolf-Schmidt-Strasse 7
Other housings:
• Bahnhofsrestauration - (Im Knabsaal), Luitpoldstrasse 19: Here were accommodated the Lithuanian DPs.
• Private house, former brush factory: Noerdlinger Strasse 52: Here lived the Ukrainian DPs.
April 22, 2007, Hi Olga
This day was the memorial day for the Jewish Dinkelsbuehl community up to 1938. It was a great day -
all people liked it a lot! Please see the plate for the house where the former synagoue was. SUCCESS!
(Olga's note: Angelika passed away Feb 2013. She contributed a lot to the Jewish history in Dinkelsbuehl.)
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Duisdorf camp - Mar 7, 2023,
Miss Olga, here is the story from my father Henryk Fiszer of Poland:
Henry Fisher worked from fall of 1939 to 1941 on a farm as a POW, 1941-1945 on a farm as a civilian, 1945-1948 as a clerk in DP Camp Offices. Photo attached below |
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Düsseldorf
/ Duesseldorf; has
its own page. N. Rhine-Westphalia (British
zone), mostly Poles