Repatriation; Prisoners of war; Digital Folder: S-0523-0648\S-1451-0000-0070. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, West Bergholt They were ordered to march to the West. Robert Kelly East Lancashire Regiment. Grange Town Released by the advancing Russian forces in Upper Silesia. But Gribben unloaded a portion of the land on the ground." D. A. It was located outside of Lamsdorf (now called Lambinowice) in southwestern Poland, not far from the Czech border. Robert Kelly served with the East Lancashire Regiment during WW2 and was captured at Dunkirk in 1940. Explore the Collection. Regina, Saskatchewan The others served as treatment blocks with operating theaters, X-ray and laboratory facilities, as well as kitchens, a morgue, and accommodations for the medical staff. Our collection contains a wealth of material to help you research and find your connection with the wartime experiences of the brave men and women who served in Australia's military forces. A photomontage of images from Stalag VIIIb prisoner of war came including a German list of prisoners who escaped from the Camp and featuring the profile of . Dad arrived at Belaria in late October44. By 1943, the famous camp for Allied flight personnel in Sagan - Stalag Luft III - had become so overcrowded that about 1,000, mostly non-commissioned flight personnel, were transferred to Lamsdorf. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small I would very much like to get in touch with Paul Law (William's son who submitted the dairies). It was located in the area of the former Camp II (Lager II), initially referred to as a camp of field artillery (Feldlager). The visit has really inspired me to make sure that Dad's name is recorded and remembered. Restrictions and conditions apply. The inmates who were selected to be gassed went through the procedure of preparing for a bath, they stripped their clothes off, and walked into the bathing room. Dad credits Rondeau for saving his life during the march to Spremburg. Your email address will not be published. cement factory, E196 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Opoleonoora. Many of them were finally repatriated towards the end of 1945 through the port of Odessa on the Black Sea. Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through Lamsdorf and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. cement factory, E203 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Oppeln. Canada, 26th April 1944 Burscough West Java John Warren Hundreds of thousands passed through those gates - and tens of thousands died there. This article is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany (and in German occupied territory) during any conflict. Scotland, 26th Jul 1942 Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice in Silesia) also known as Kommando E562, became a part of the Auschwitz/Monowitz concentration camp complex. Schmitz (used in the war crimes investigation). The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-45. Prisoners from Holland, Belgian, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania and Russia were imprisoned there. Lamsdorf became a prison camp in 1870 during the Franco Prussian War - and was used as such until the late 1940s. Six of them were self-contained wards, each with space for about 100 patients. Rondeau was in Dads room at Belaria. During winter 1944/45, as the Red Army was closing fast, the Germans decided to evacute the camp (which became a transfer point for the prisoners from Auschwitz and other camps) and forced the prisoners into columns of 500 men each. Avian Road E288 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b sugar beet factory Bauerwitz, E30 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Cement factory, E324 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Dubrnsko, E357 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Tunneling Peitskretschen, E364 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Strelitz, E373 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Blaschke, Czechoslovakia. Stan Living-Stone About 9,000 airmen - 7,588 American and 1,351 British and Canadian - were imprisoned there when it was liberated on the night of 30 April 1945 by Soviet troops. stone quarry, E138 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Ratibor. Middlesex, Below are messages we have kindly received regarding POWs in Stalag VIII B, Stalag Luft III, Belaria and Stalag III A. I found your site of the utmost interest & somewhat emotional as the man in the front row centre of the RAF group at Stalag V111B was my father, flight sergeant Frank Firman. The working party was known as BAB 20/3COY. 25 Operational Training Unit Wellington lost. At one point, after being recaptured, a German guard ordered him to 'dig his own grave' at the point of a gun and then when he had dug the hole told him to fill it in again. Cheshire, 26th April 1944 E538 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Sosnowice. Arthur E. Adams (front row, second from left) and other fellow PoW's at Stalag VIII B, Flight Sergeant Frank Firman (front row, centre), Below is a list of names and addresses of various PoW's from Stalag VIII B, Stalag Luft III, Belaria and Stalag III A. Oxford St Near Walsall An elderly cousin of my father was able to tell me about the impact his capture and imprisonment had on his family - his sister and parents - and that helped me understand a lot about family relationships in later years. In the second issue of The Clarion (the camp magazine) in February 1943, the RC Chaplain Father John Berry says that "there are about 600 Working Parties and .. you will be able to guess why so many of you will have not yet had a visit". Between February and March 1944, 800 were transferred to camps at Blechhammer and Heydebreck-Cosel in Germany. Please scroll down for: Types of Camp Clickable List of Camps You can help If you know about someone who was an allied prisoner of war of Germany during the Second World War, From . Birmingham, 1st April 1942 Schmitz (used in the war crimes investigation). It is located in Poland near the small town of Lamsdorf (now called Lambinowice) in what was then known as Upper Silesia. The unlucky ones got liberated by the Soviets, who instead of turning them over quickly to the western allies, held them as virtual hostages for several more months. Reginald Ryder SCENES AT STALAG VIIIB (LAMSDORF) PRISONER OF WAR CAMP, GERMANY 1942 - 1945 Unable to open [object Object]: HTTP 0 attempting to load TileSource IWM HU 47109 1/2 slide 1 to 2 of 2 Description Object description Interior view of a camp hut showing prisoners' accommodation and possessions on Christmas Day 1944. The movie about the Great Escape was very moving as well to me. [4], In 1998, Arthur Dodd, a former British POW from Camp E715, published Spectator In Hell, a book about his time imprisoned at Monowitz. THE ONLINE MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OF PRISONERS OF WAR. 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The sentry Sonntag continued to order my great uncle to move the barrow and threatened use of his firearm. Cameron St. Hunter Jim Henry On 1st June a determined enemy attack on the Dunkirk perimeter was halted by the gallant stand of B Company, 1st East Lancashires, for which Captain Marcus Ervine-Andrews was awarded the Victoria Cross (the only one at Dunkirk), assisted by a counter-attack by the Loyals. A part of Stalag VIII-B was separated by building new barbed-wire fences, designated Stalag Luft VIII-B. The montage also features some of the stamps which he carved. Canada, 9th Mar 1942 As a teenager, she remembered Dad's return and how very weak and ill he was. The camp was commanded by SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Otto Brossmann. If you would like to use IWM collections materials in a way that is not covered above, require a commercial licence, high-resolution copies, or have manipulation requests, please contact theMedia Sales & Licensing Team. The montage was created in the camp by Warrant Officer William Lawrence RAF. The Avenue A Royal Canadian Air Force POW in Stalag VIII-B prison camp. The lazarett was headed by a German officer with the title Oberst Arzt ("Colonel Doctor"), but the staff was made up entirely of prisoners. With the start of the Soviet VistulaOder Offensive in January 1945, Auschwitz was evacuated by the SS. The Room 42 on the football plaque could refer to a room containing mainly POWs from the 42nd Division. Thanks again for the contact. List of aircraft of the Malaysian Armed Forces. The South Lancashires held the far left of the British line, west of Nieuport, the Loyals occupied the fortified town of Bergues on the right, while the East Lancashires plugged a gap in the centre of the line along the Bergues Canal. Grce Internet vous pouvez aujourd'hui retrouver la liste des prisonniers de guerre 39-45, en quelques secondes et gratuitement. Many marched 500 miles (800 km) and some almost 1000 miles (1600 km). The Soviet Army reached the camp on 17 March 1945. Later approximately 100,000 prisoners from Australia, Belgium, British India, British Palestine, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the United States and Yugoslavia passed through this camp. Although the British POWs received better treatment than the concentration camp prisoners, they only received slightly more food. Downloading audio-visual for non-commercial offline listening or viewing. Waiuku, Auckland My Grandfather, two uncles and my dad were all over there during the war at the same time and thanks to God they all came back safe although my father later died of cancer when I was 8 months old. I have just come back from a visit to the remains of Stalag VIIIb and the Prisoner of War Museum at Lambinovice (Lamsdorf). The Soviet Army reached the camp on 17 March 1945. Prisoner of warUsed for: POW, PoWSomeone held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. All the camp knew it. It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. railway depot loading and unloading trains. For years Prussian and - subsequently - German soldiers had trained there. *The names on the lists might not all be listed individually yet on the alphabetical list below (it takes a long time to do this). Stalag VIII-B and Stalag Luft VIII-B Lamsdorf, Poland (now Lambinowice) Stalag VIII-B Teschen Poland Location N/E 49-18. A small number of RAF non-commissioned officers who were shot down in the second half of 1941 spent a few weeks there. The prefix E referred to English although other national were included. Both being from Quebec and able to speak Armands mother tongue they became good pals. Brinley Norman "Bryn" Williams Royal Engineers. Alison was researching a number of deaths in prison camps. I have just come back from a visit to the remains of Stalag VIIIb and the Prisoner of War Museum at Lambinovice (Lamsdorf). This list does not claim to be definitive. He and mom wrote back and forth for the next ten years and finally got married in Kelowna mom and John then moved to New Zealand. Canada, Armand Rondeau Stalag 3AUsed for: Stalag 3-A, Stalag iii-A, Stalag III-A, Luckenwalde camp. They included general physicians and surgeons, even a neurosurgeon, psychiatrist, anesthesiologist and radiologist. The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. They were in Polish and German. However all food was provided from kitchens operated by army personnel in the camp proper. On 1st June a determined enemy attack on the Dunkirk perimeter was halted by the gallant stand of B Company, 1st East Lancashires, for which Captain Marcus Ervine-Andrews was awarded the Victoria Cross (the only one at Dunkirk), assisted by a counter-attack by the Loyals. There are various post cards of a funeral at BAB20 for a man shot for smoking a fag. Some died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. E110 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Stauwerder, E114 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Kunzendorf. Sergeant Charles Coward even managed to pass intelligence about the atrocities occurring at Monowitz through letters to the British War Office. Almost 10,000 Bomber Command aircrew became prisoners of war after they were shot down or baled out. to help with the costs of keeping the site running. [1] It was later known as Stalag VIII-B.[2]. Birmingham, Ron Cartwright There were more than 700 subsidiary Arbeitskommandos (working parties outside the main camp) located in various places in present-day southern Poland and northern Czech Republic. Stalag VIIIB, later renumbered Stalag 344, was located near the small town of Lamsdorf (now called ambinowice) in Silesia, Poland. It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. E276 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Ottmachau. along the Ypres-Comines Canal at the time of Dunkirk, May 1940 - with grateful acknowledgement to the grandson of. Reading this information gave me chills and made me so sad to think of all those who gave their lives for our freedom. Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf was a notorious German Army prisoner of war camp, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the small town of Lamsdorf (now called ambinowice) in Silesia. I thoroughly enjoyed scrolling through the web site earlier today. Robert Stoker - Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War -. Very little remains there, but there is an exhibition of daily life in the camps and a reconstruction of a hut where Russian POWs were held (and treated very badly). It opened in March 1942 by theLuftwaffeto hold captured Allied airmen. They were ordered to march to the West. Tamboerskloof Saint Road However, as it was attached to the Monowitz concentration camp (codenamed Buna after the synthetic rubber it made) which was one of the 28 sub-camps under the control of Auschwitz III, the SS had effective control. If you are interested in the full range of licenses available for this material, please contact the Media Sales & Licensing Team. New Zealand, Frank W Day Sgt. power station, E728 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Neu Oderberg, E732 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Czciakowa, E734 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Schoppintiz, E739 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Dombrowa Grunkolonie, E742 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Ober Lazisk, E744 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Kazimierz, E746 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Konigshutte, E749 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Peiskretscham, E750 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Kattowitz, E753 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Graumanndorf, E755 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Wojkowitz Komorne, E756 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Radzionkau, E793 (E493) Bau und Arbeits, Battalion 21, BAB 21, Stalag 8b, E794 Bau und Arbeits, Battalion 20, BAB 20 Stalag 8b Hydebreck, E8 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Krappitz. Thanks again for your site. coal mine, E446 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Zuckmantel, E460 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b building railway bridge, E479 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Tarnowitz, E484 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Neisse. Near East Indies, Jim Healey As a teenager, she remembered Dad's return and how very weak and ill he was. Stalag 3A was liberated by the Russians in April 1945. This is the Facebook Group of Stalag VIIIB (later renumbered Stalag 344) was one of the largest German prisoner of war camps and was situated at Lamsdorf (now Lambinowce in Poland). The Soviet Army reached the camp 17 March 1945. The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. In July 1944 Stalag Luft 6 was evacuated with prisoners transferred to either Stalag Luft 4 or Stalag 357 in Fallingbostel in Germany. Wolverhampton Research then told me about the Death Marches - and the fact that the starving prisoners ate grass. c/o Quebec Liquor Commission The sentry Sonntag continued to order my great uncle to move the barrow and threatened use of his firearm. New Westminster, BC I mixed with the civilian population at Auschwitz. In 1943, the Lamsdorf camp was split up, and many of the prisoners (and Arbeitskommando) were transferred to two new base camps Stalag VIII-C Sagan (modern agan and Stalag VIII-D Teschen (modern esk Tn). We first heard that he was a prisoner in Stalag 111B, from there to Stalag V111B hence the picture. During the "Death March" people who were suffering from cold (marched barefoot, without proper winter clothing) soon started to die of exhaustion. Join or Log Into Facebook. MG Jenkins 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment, Pte. His wartime experience was instrumental in forming the man he became. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp Arbeitskommando E501, Stalag8b, E1. For a few cigarettes he pointed out to me the various places where they had the gas chambers and the places where they took them down to be cremated. A civilian labourer apparently confirmed this version. All three units held their positions, under constant attack, until ordered to withdraw. In November 1943 there was another reorganization, Lamsdorf was renamed "Stalag 344", and a large number of prisoners were transferred to Teschen, which became Stalag VIII-B. The records also told me that Dad was captured at Gazala in North Africa and ended up in Stalag VIIIb, in what is now Poland, from September 1943 until liberation in April 1945. The so-called Lazarett was set up on a separate site with eleven concrete buildings. Those who were unable to march were killed with the butts of the guns by the so-called Nachkommando which followed the columns. Today I read the diaries of Private William Law. Mullins did well post war owning some hotels and is said to have employed Rondeau when he was on the outs. Stirlingshire recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. MG Jenkins 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment, Pte. It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force. Norton If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 261046 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible. Photograph taken by C E Chetwin. 10thFeb 2023 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. Before the end of the war he was transfered to Marlag & Milag Nor, a Naval camp; how he was made to travel there we do not know, it's a pity PCs were not around years ago. Albert A. Seibel At the end of 1943 within Stalag VIII-B Teschen there were about 50,000 Soviet prisoners, and another 10,000 from other countries,[3] including Great Britain, the Commonwealth and Italy. E715 was next to the I.G. In January the camp held just over 1500 prisoners who were evacuated initially as part of the long march and then by train to Stalag 3A. Saw Mill Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Laband E110 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Stauwerder E114 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Kunzendorf. After the treaty of Versailles, the camp was closed down. Gerrard St My interest in Stalag VIIIB, German Prisoner of War Camp, started with the fact that many New Zealand POWs ended up here, including some friends of my family. E. K. West (Lofty) As of Oct 2021, there are no relevant items in the Archive. 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