railway, E218 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Flossingen, E22 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gliewitz-Ohringen, E22050 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b gas works, E243 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Breslau (gasworks), E25 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Rauschwalde, Kreis Falkenberg, E256 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Zuckmantel, E260 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Grosszeildel. In April 1945, the British POWs at Auschwitz were liberated by the U.S. Army at Stalag VII A in Moosburg. Dad credits Rondeau for saving his life during the march to Spremburg. Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp Arbeitskommando E501, Stalag8b, E1. Brixton Hill Want to find out more about your relative's service? Sukasari E542 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Fohrengrund ub Gleiwtz, E552 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Hindenberg Philipstr. In 2005 my mother also contacted Alison Robertson from an advert in the local paper. Cpl. Ayot St. Peter In 1941 a separate camp, Stalag VIII-F was set up close by to house the Soviet prisoners. Lamsdorf became a prison camp in 1870 during the Franco Prussian War - and was used as such until the late 1940s. 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. Andrew Jeffrey Evinou 4th Btn. stone quarry and factory, E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mankendorf. 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. Air Force POWs in all camps are listed - Lamsdorf is identified as 344. England, 31st Jan 1942 We first heard that he was a prisoner in Stalag 111B, from there to Stalag V111B hence the picture. Cheslyn Hay 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). A notorious German Army prisoner of war camp, later renumbered Stalag-344, in Silesia. New Zealand, 24th May 1940 A part of Stalag VIII-B was separated by building new barbed-wire fences, designated Stalag Luft VIII-B. Australia, RAF No. I thoroughly enjoyed scrolling through the web site earlier today. CQSM Sidney Cecil Lawrie 1/12, 2/13, 5/13, 5/16, 6/16, 7/16 and also this link: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/search-results/?CemeteryExact=true&Cemetery=KRAKOW%20RAKOWICKI%20CEMETERY, The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Regiment, 2nd Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, POWs sent from Italian POW camp PG 82 Laterina to Lamsdorf 22 July 1943, Keith Bruce Chisholm (see pages 6-15 of this document), Eric W. Lawson(see also Thomas Wilfred Clive Lawson), Thomas Wilfred Clive Lawson (see also Eric W. Lawson), Charles Amos George Victor (Vic) Petersen. E91 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mittenbruck, Silesia. South Africa, Owen L Griggs Scarborough, 7th May 1942 Buchenwald was built in 1937 to imprison opponents of the Nazi regime and others they saw as "undesirable." Tamboerskloof 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. On the 27th March there is an entry about a shooting of a POWfor refusing to push a wheel barrow. It is not clear which battalion Robert served with however it is more probable that it was the 1st Battalion which formed part of the final defence force around the Dunkirk beaches. Stalag Luft 6Used for: Stalag Luft 6, Stalag Luft vi, Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug camp, Located in Heydekrug, now Silute, in Lithuania Stalag Luft 6 was the most northerly of the Luftwaffe run prisoner of war camps. Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through Lamsdorf and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 510: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/Germany 1937" does not exist. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on the 26th of January 1945. Between February and March 1944, 800 were transferred to camps at Blechhammer and Heydebreck-Cosel in Germany. Town End nr Gleadless London, J E Hall [2], Memorial dedicated to World War II resistance fighters on the site of Stalag VIII-D, Stalag VIII-D / Stalag VIII-B/Z / Stalag VIII-B, Last edited on 17 February 2023, at 02:47, "List of POW Camps ("Kriegsgefangenenlager Liste")", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stalag_VIII-D&oldid=1139825211, Kommando E535 - Milwitz Coal mine "Milwitzgrube" SOSNOWITZ - Milowice (Sosnowiec), mainly, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 02:47. [4] Because of these organizational and number changes there is considerable confusion in accounts of prisoners, even in official German records. STALAG VIIIB/344 LAMSDORF PRISONERS OF WAR Public Group | Facebook. c/o Quebec Liquor Commission The whole camp covered the area of 230m x 290m. 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. But Gribben unloaded a portion of the land on the ground." The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. Add a Name to this List Stalag Luft 5 was aprisoner of war camp run by the Luftwaffe located at Grditz, 30 miles (50 km) north-west of Dresden. Trpr. Wild Kipp on the base drum is for Major Jimmy Howe who later became the Musical Director of the Scots Guards. 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. Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf and Teschen: documents (microfilm), https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb1556-wl546, Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf and Teschen authorities. He ordered Gribben now to push the barrow. She received a letter from Mr. C. Earl who was a medical orderly at the camp and who, along with another man J. Watson, identified Joe's body when it was brought into the guardroom. On 10th May 1940 the Phoney War came to an abrupt end when Germany invaded Belgium and Holland. 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. railway building, E494 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gleiwitz Ost, E535 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Sosnowitz West. 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. The men were marched along country roads towards the Oder, first north towards Dresden, then when the Germans changed their mind, south towards Bavaria, eventually reaching Stalag XIII-D near Nuremberg. Ronald Arnold When I began to research my family history I got Dad's military records from the MOD. Dudley W. Attwood Les Chatterton Arcadian Buffet IWM collections. Christmas celebrations during theSecond World Waroften had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Laband E110 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Stauwerder E114 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Kunzendorf. Lamsdorf became a prison camp in 1870 during the Franco Prussian War - and was used as such until the late 1940s. Royal Tank Regiment, The Last Escape. Also known as Stalag 344, and connected to Stalag IV b/z and Stalag VIII-d. 64,000 POWs in 1944 with 150 officers and 13,625 being British. Forest Gate Very little is documented on this camp andthis entry has been added for consistency purposes. Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf was a German Army prisoner of war camp, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the small town of Lamsdorf (now called ambinowice) in Silesia. This states that Joe refused to push a heavily laden wheelbarrow of earth. 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). Today I read the diaries of Private William Law. The crematorium where 1500 bodies were burnt was in the south-east part of the camp. Yorkshire, J. POWs regularly bore witness to the atrocities occurring at Monowitz because the SS made no attempt to conceal their brutality; the Allied prisoners routinely saw inmates from the Arbeitslagers being hanged, pushed off buildings, fatally beaten and shot. He told us that the Gaelic speakers in the camp were able to pass information to each other without the Guards knowing what they were saying. I mixed with the civilian population at Auschwitz. New Westminster, BC After the treaty of Versailles, the camp was closed down. Compiling Agency: The names in this collection were made searchable through the World Memory Project. E563 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Bory Jelen Jaworzno, E565 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Sierza Wodna, E571 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gruden. Stalag Luft 4 was opened by the Luftwaffe in May 1944 for RAF and American non commissioned officers. Stalag VIII-D was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp (Stammlager) located at the outskirts of Teschen, (now esk Tn, Czech Republic). It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. Prisoners organised educational lessons, sports, entertainments and camp newspapers. Lawrence, a trained engineer, carried out clandestine photography in the Camp between August 1942 - February 1945. The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344. A. Potter Join or Log Into Facebook. Thus a camp within a camp was created. The Soviet Army reached the camp on 17 March 1945. My Father died in 1980 but I have several photographs including the cobblers shop where my father was part of a small team under Arthur Weston making artificial legs. Food rations were supplemented by, in theory, one Red Cross parcel per week for each prisoner. Most prisoners were put to work in machine shops making pipes and repairing chemical plant equipment. Free exhibitions held in venues, which do not charge an entry fee. Letters from Frank Morris while prisoner-of-war in Stalag VIII-B. His lifelong involvement in the British Legion is testimony to that. In the 1860s, the Prussian Army established a training area for artillery at a wooded area near Lamsdorf, a small village connected by rail to Opole and Nysa. 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. The original pages can be seen in Arthur's Wartime Log - Part 2, 29th Jul 1942 From . Our Chetwin, Colin Edwin, 1912-1991 Ref: DA-10725-F Description: Athletics meeting at Stalag 8B prisoner of war camp, Lamsdorf, Germany, on August Bank Holiday, 1943. Stirlingshire This article is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany (and in German occupied territory) during any conflict. Prisoner of warUsed for: POW, PoWSomeone held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Stalag 3A was aprisoner of war camp run by the German Army near Luckenwalde, 32 miles (51 kms) south of Berlin. It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. Stalag 8BUsef for: Stalag VIII-B, Stalag vii-b, Stalag-344, Lamsdorf camp. Stalag Luft 4Used for: Stalag Luft 4, Stalag Luft iv, Stalag Luft IV, Tychowo camp, Gro Tychow camp, Stalag Luft 4 was located at Gross Tychow, now Tychowo, in north-east Poland 78 miles (125 kms) north-east of Stettin, now Szczecin. It was built in March 1941 on the grounds of a former Czech barracks. to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Church (My Pilot) Both being from Quebec and able to speak Armands mother tongue they became good pals. Thus a camp within a camp was created. Personal use for non-commercial research and private study and other uses under the UKs exceptions to copyright and those exceptions to copyright in place where the user is located. In January 1945 the camp held just under 9000 prisoners of whom 8000 were American and 820 British. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. It saw almost a century of misery. Pine Ave It was reopened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939. Stalag Luft 2Used for: Stalag Luft 2, Stalag Luft ii, Stalag Luft II, Litzmannstadt camp, Stalag Luft 2 was located in the city of Lodz in Poland, which the Germans renamed Litzmannstadt. Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice in Silesia) also known as Kommando E562, became a part of the Auschwitz/Monowitz concentration camp complex. In 1944 American and British prisoners arrived. They were originally buried at Lamsdorf but moved to the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Krakow after the war. Those who were unable to march were killed with the butts of the guns by the so-called Nachkommando which followed the columns. Restrictions and conditions apply. The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. I didnt see the name of Thurmann Esselmeyer, USAAF, on any of the programs. John Warren Tpr. 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