Liebe Frau Kaczmar, vielen Dank für den Hinweis auf
die website www.dpcamps.org! Die ist sehr interessant für uns und wir werden
von unserer website aus einen link auf diese Seite setzen. Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Lehmann@webpony.de Mathias
Lehmann, Exilmusik Hamburg Univ
of Hamburg has a webpage on dp camps written in German.
State archive Hamburg:
http://fhh.hamburg.de/stadt/Aktuell/behoerden/staatsarchiv/
http://fhh.hamburg.de/stadt/Aktuell/behoerden/staatsarchiv/start.html
Staatsarchiv Hamburg
Kattunbleiche 19
22041 Hamburg
Tel.: (040) 42831 - 3200
Fax: (040)
42831-3201
They undertake the desired genealogical and biographical research for you:
If you would like to commission a search, contact us by e-mail info@linktoyourroots.com,
by telephone (0049/40/659090-833 or -834) or by post (Link to your Roots / Beschäftigung
+ Bildung e.V. / Besenbinderhof 37 / 20097 Hamburg / Germany).
The
Hamburg internation website Click English, Click on Link
to your Roots,
click on passenger ship lists.
11/3/06
Hello Olga,
I have just spent a couple of days on your site and am very sorry
that I did not do so while my father was still alive. His name
was Gregory Bogdan (Bogdanov). He died in June of this year.
I have photos and some information about his life but am wondering
if it is possible to find out more. I know he was in Fischbeck
from approximately 1946 to 1951 when he left for America. I know
he either left or was removed from Ukraine, in the area between Sumy
and Romny some time in 1942 or 1943. He was born in Ukraine. I
wonder if it is possible to find out where he was in Germany during
the war. I assume it was in one of the labor camps around Hamburg
but have no basis for this assumption except that he was in Fischbeck.
I have some photos given to him by friends during that time and
a newssheet dated Jan 4 1948 (in Russian) regarding elections for
camp commandant. The address is Hamburg-Noegraben, Fischbeck,
DP Camp No. 514. If there is anyone who knows of people (probably
Orthodox religion as this appeared to be prevalent there) who
were there I would like for them to contact me. Thank you Nina
Bogdan ;
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My father, Gregory Bogdanov in camp. For
more of my Hamburg photo album click here hamburg2.html
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4/19/2010 Hi Olga,
I have viewed your website, wonderful. I live in Australia. I'm trying to track
information on this man.
He was in DP Camp 514 Fischbeck WW2 – Born in Dubno Poland.
My mother passed away and I found this photo, which I believe to be my farther.
My mother was also in DP Camp 514 Fischbeck WW2. Her name was Ekaterina
Andreevna Formerly: Gavrysh Married name: Palaniza– Born Dubno Poland
I would like any photos or more information on my mother also.
I have aunties, uncles & sisters who I don’t know and would like
to contact.
We have searched the internet and have not came up with anything much at all.
If anyone knows this photos or can help with more information would be
greatly appreciated. meanstreetaustralia@hotmail.com Thank
you
10/4/09 Hi Olga:
My name is Anatoly Kurjaninow. I live in New
Jersey. I came across your site as I was searching for info on the Fichbeck
camp, near Hamburg. I and my family lived there in the early 1950's before
we emigrated to the USA.
I read the item on Fischbeck by Nina
Bogdan – whose
father was at the camp. I emailed her with my contact info a while back
but never received a reply. Could you forward my message to Nina Bogdan?
My email is toly48comp@verizon.net Anatoly
Kurjaninow
Here are some things that I remember from the Fischbek
DP Camp, near Hamburg, Germany. Please post this on your website, if
you think it’s useful.
1. Fischbek is the
German spelling. Fischbeck is in English. This
may lead to confusion, if people are doing a search on the Internet.
2. My parents and I lived at 2 Rostweg,
Fischbek from 1951 to 1957.
The population at that time consisted mostly of
Eastern Europeans – Russians,
Ukrainians, Poles, Latvians. Some German families also lived in
this camp.
The camp was shrinking at that time. People were leaving the camp
by emigration to other countries. Others moved to new housing,
as Germany was rebuilt.
More than half of the original barracks had been demolished
on the east and south sides of the camp. Around 1957, on the
south side of the camp, new housing was going up for German Army Officers.
3. The camp had a Russian
Orthodox church. I
remember attending church services on holidays, especially Easter. I
also remember attending funeral services. Therefore, there must
have been a cemetery nearby. Anyone looking for family, perhaps can contact
the Russian Orthodox Church in Germany.
4. The train station was in Neugraben. It
took about an hour to walk there. We used to take the train to Harburg,
and then to Hamburg. We emigrated to the USA in
1959.
5. There was a second DP camp nearby. I
think the name was Falkenberg. It was within walking
distance; we visited with people the occasionally.
6. I was in Germany in October 2000,
and took a drive to Fischbek. Rostweg, the street, is still there. But
the whole camp is gone. The place is now a residential area.
If anyone is interested in more information, they
can contact me - at toly48comp@verizon.net
Best
Regards – Anatoly Kurjaninow
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I've been reading responses people have sent to you and am very impressed.
I'm wondering if you might be able to help. As far as I've been told my
mother Irene
Janine Malyska was
born in Hamberg, Germany in 1946 apparently while her parents were
on holiday from Poland. Although I was also informed that my mother was in
an orphanage at the age of 3 and then I was informed that my mother and her
parents migrated to Australia when my mother was 3. Her fathers name was
Zygmunt Malyska and her mother's name was Wladyslawa Alexsandra Malyska.
I also recall my mother telling me that her parents were POW, so as you can
imagine I am quite confused. Can you help?
Regards Suzanne
gpasue@bigpond.com
10/17/04 Dear Olga;
I just found your website about dp camps. I was born in the HAMBURG camp
in 1951, only to leave 8 weeks later to go to America. I am visiting with
my husband's niece in Dusseldorf, Germany, and wish to visit the site where
I was born. I know I was born in a hospital there in the Uhlenhorst sector,
so I was wondering if there is some reference point I may find to retrace
my nativity. This has become an extremely emotional issue for me, as my yet
alive 84 year old mother still cannot talk about her experiences in the war.
Please help me. I have found the location of the concentration camp, but
NOTHING other than this website for a location.
Ragnhild Stopinski
Loos randee@ceprotec.de
0/18/04 Dear Ms. Stopinski Loos,
If you have a birth certificate, there should
be the indication of the hospital. Uhlenhorst is located in the center of
Hamburg with the postal zip code 22085. By searching in the internet, you
could probably find out the location of the hospital (if it still exists)
or eventually where it was located. You could also contact the city archives
before you arrive there. Normally they are very helpful. Greetings from Germany
Wolfgang Strobel Wolfgang.Strobel.Bonn@t-online.de
1/7/05 Dear Olga,
You have an incredible website. I couldn't stop reading. However, I would
love some help to find out the name of an English zone DP camp near Hamburg.
My mother said there was a Volkswagen factory nearby. We were there in 1945
for a while and then went to the Geislingen in the American zone.
With thanks, Heli
Brecht / Australia heli@coombs.anu.edu.au
1/17/05 Hi Olga
Zwracam sie do ciebie z prosba . Chcialbym sie dowiedziec gdzie moge odszukac
dokumenty zwiazane z bylymi polskimi jeA?Ncami wojennymi ktorzy po 1945 roku
przebywali w obozach DP na terenie Niemiec. Brat mojego dziadka po wojnie
przebywal w obozie DP w okolicach Hamburga. Wiem ze jeszcze okolo 1950 roku
przebywal tam .Od tamtej pory nie ma z nim kontaktu i zadnej wiadomosci .
Pozdrawiam
Boguslaw Samul
Kolno
Poland
Translation: I am writing to you with request. I would like to ask where
I can seek documents on former Polish war prisoners of war after 1945 year
in camps in the area of Germany who were DPs. Brother of my grandfather
stayed in Hamburg camp region after the war. I know, that he stayed there
til around 1950 year. From that time we don't have contact from him. Samul
Boguslaw / Poland samulb@interia.pl
1/24/05 Dear Olga,
I have been reading the information on the internet and I too was so surprised
to find that the details of the camps were there!!!!. You seem to have
been able to help with a lot of information for other people I hope you can
help me also. My birth is recorded at Standesamt Hamburg - Hohenfelde. I would
like to know if this is the name of the hospital & where it is exactly in Hamburg.
If it is near the Elbe Tunnel??? up from the waterfront. I do know that
there was a hospital here during the war it is nearly opposite where the Infectious
diseases hospital is now. I think now this building has been renovated
and in the year 2000 was being used as an Ambulance station???? I would also
like to know if there were DP camps in Wedel and if there was a camp called
the Zoo Camp in Hamburg, and where it was in relation to the city of Hamburg.
My parents were Latvians who were placed in both of these camps. The Zoo camp
was where they spent most of their time as far as I can find out. From
the Zoo Camp, we went on to Australia. I have found no record of these camps
in any of your information. Were these actual camps or were they some sort
of school barracks. My mother thought they could have been barracks of some
sort or an old school building. MI would appreciate any information you could
find for me. Ilona Barr (nee Klava) / Australia ibarr@tpg.com.au
3/2/07 Ms. Kaczmar,
I wrote you earlier about my daughter doing a National History Day project
about a Ukrainian lady... Natalia Saveliovna Khatshchenka Mershiewsky (2nd
married name). She was born in 1912 in Kharkov. She and her family were very
devout in their faith. Her parents died in the Russian Civil War. During
the Great Famine, she was taken to Armenia by Armenian Christians. Later
she returned to Kharkov and we know she was a singer in a swing band. She
was transported to Germany where she was an Ostarbieter on a farm near Hamburg.
When the Allies began dividing up Germany, she found her way to the US sector
and was in a DP camp, where she married her 1st husband (name unknown at
this time). She was not transported because he had Polish papers. They came
to the US in 1950 and later became citizens. She passed away last Jan. Thank
you so very much for whatever information you can give us,
Dani and
Hailie Hendrickson, email: band7269@yahoo.com
1/23/08 Hi Olga,
I am early in my search of my grandparents/parents history – family
names of Czubara and Pijanka, as all my grandparents have died. My
father and his parents were in DP Camp Eckernforde 10/1946 - 10/1947I
am finding your site were interesting and if I can help anyone else fill
in the gaps it would be a pleasure.
Regards, Anne-Marie Pijanka apijanka@internode.on.net
