DP Camps in Germany - G

Gabersee, Jews

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 Rosen

Ganghoffer

Hi Olga,
One of our parishioners was in a camp called Ganghoffer in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. Do you think you can help me find that camp on your web site? Theresa Pitiak

Submitted by: Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949:

City archives: Stadtarchiv Regensburg
Keplerstrasse 1
93047 Regensburg
Tel.: 49-941- 507-1452
Fax: 49-941- 507-4458

Geesthacht, #1225, (Goesthacht in '49) Schleswig Holstein (British zone), mostly Balts

Archive Geesthacht:
http://www.archive.schleswig-holstein.de/kreis_hzgt/sageesth.html
Stadtarchiv Geesthacht,
Krügersches Haus, Bergedorfer Strasse 28,
21502 Geesthacht,
Tel: 04152/835979 or 0172/2918723,
Fax: 04152/78967.

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.

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.

Thank you for any assistance you could provide. Susan Armstrong-Reid

 

Goslar, #2913, Land Niedersachsen (British zone)

Zehntstrasse 24,
38640 Goslar
Tel: 0 53 21 - 70 46 11
Fax: 0 53 21 - 70 46 22
http://home.t-online.de/home/ipros-goslar/stdtarch.htm

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

Gotha

Gothmund is a fishing village; Gothmundlager is in Luebeck, Poles

Göttingen / Goettingen, #285, Land Niedersachsen (British zone) (Do not confuse with Güttingen in Switzerland.)

City archive/ Stadtarchiv
http://www.stadtarchiv.goettingen.de

City website: http://www.eng.goettingen.de/

Municipal offices:
Neues Rathaus
Hiroshimaplatz 1-4
37083 Göttingen
Mayor's Tel: (0551) 400-4444

German website:

Research project about slave labor, including photos in Goettingen: http://www.zwangsarbeit-in-goettingen.de/

http://www.goest.de/zwangsarbeit.htm

http://www.egmed.uni-goettingen.de/geschichte/NSzeitII.html

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 whilst looking for information on my father have come across a record of him working in Göttingen 1941 on the national railroad. Wasyl married Lubow Scharakowa (born in 1929) in 1945. They had a daughter Maria in 1946. I would like to trace him and his family if possible.   Please let me know if you can help me. I have attached some photos.   Many thanks Sonia Jarema jaremas@yahoo.com. Click to enlarge photos
Göttingen, Germany 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).

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 City archives: http://www.archive.nrw.de/home.asp?stadta-greven Stadtarchiv Greven Rathausstr. 6 D-48268 Greven Post office box: Stadtarchiv Greven Postfach 1664 D-48255 Greven Tel: 02571/920-358 (-458) Fax: 02571/920-320 E-mail: archiv@stadt-greven.de   MAJOR REUNION HERE ON WW.DPCAMPS.ORG: 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 3/9/06 Dear Olga I just wanted to let you know about the publication of my Ph.D. thesis (in German language only). For more information just use the following urls: http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/HistorischeKommission/Publikationen/Jahr2005/Displacedpersons/index2_html http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/HistorischeKommission/Publikationen/Jahr2005/Displacedpersons/?lang=en City of Greven, Fachdienst Allgemeiner Service, Stadtarchiv (City Archive) http://www.greven.net Dr. Stefan Schröder Email: stefan.schroeder@stadt-greven.de Rathausstr. 6 D-48268 Greven Germany Grohn See Bremen 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 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) Gütersloh / Guetersloh - 2 camps (British zone) Güttingen (Güttingen/Guettingen is in Switzerland http://www.guettingen.ch/sites/guettingen/ info@guettingen.ch) See Göthingen for German town. Archives of Europe: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro1.html Search this site powered by FreeFind If this site was helpful to you, please consider making a donation to keep it going.