Want to know what life was like during the War? Christmas celebrations during theSecond World Waroften had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. 25 Operational Training Unit Wellington lost. Johannesburg The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force. There are various post cards of a funeral at BAB20 for a man shot for smoking a fag. Camp commander Czesaw Gborski was later put on trial for his role in running the camp. Those who were unable to march were killed with the butts of the guns by the so-called Nachkommando which followed the columns. I have just come back from a visit to the remains of Stalag VIIIb and the Prisoner of War Museum at Lambinovice (Lamsdorf). The three Lancashire battalions were among the last British troops to embark on the night 2nd/3rd June. H. Newall 616337 Robert Henry Sharp 1st Lothian Edinburgh Horse Yeomanry. A civilian labourer apparently confirmed this version. Australia, 28th Oct 1943 Westerhope Scarborough, 7th May 1942 When I began to research my family history I got Dad's military records from the MOD. 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. They included general physicians and surgeons, even a neuro-surgeon, psychiatrist, anesthesiologist, radiologist. Wolverhampton Dagenham Ave Newcastle upon Tyne, 17th Jun 1942 Manor House Rd I see the name Mullins as part of the cast in one of the plays. The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on the 26th of January 1945. Your email address will not be published. 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 . [1] It was later known as Stalag VIII-B. 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. If you have any unwanted 1st and 4th Battalions East Lancashire Regiment who joined the 42nd Division in 1940 prior to Dunkirk. Esselmeyer was a big band leader in the states after the war called the 'River City Big Band' in St Louis Missouri. In 2005 my mother also contacted Alison Robertson from an advert in the local paper. Standerton Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through ambinowice and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. There are various post cards of a funeral at BAB20 for a man shot for smoking a fag. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. My family were told that Sonntag was not seen in the camp again and they believed he was sent to the Eastern Front. My family were told that Sonntag was not seen in the camp again and they believed he was sent to the Eastern Front. Stalag VIII B was established on 4 October 1939. Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. We are now on Facebook. Drive Mansions Sid Hall Canada, 22nd Jul 1942 I stood on the railway platform where Dad would have arrived, and saw the entrance to the camp. Use on personal social media accounts, provided the individuals are not promoting themselves commercially. Andrew Jeffrey Evinou 4th Btn. Cameron St. Cheshire, Norris E. Hunt (Joe) In general, the conditions in the main Teschen camp and in all the sub-camps were deplorable. E94 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Emilienhoff. The Room 42 on the football plaque could refer to a room containing mainly POWs from the 42nd Division. The BEF advanced into Belgium but the Allied front rapidly collapsed before the German blitzkrieg and the British force, with its flanks exposed and its rear increasingly threatened, was obliged to make a succession of withdrawals. Cheshire, 26th April 1944 I stood on the railway platform where Dad would have arrived, and saw the entrance to the camp. The so-called Lazarett was set up on separate site with eleven concrete buildings. The Soviet Army reached the camp 17 March 1945. What a revelation - they told me so much about this young man who joined up in 1939 - about his education, his previous employment (and what he earned) and his physical appearance. [3], Stalag VIII-B / Stalag 344 / Stalag Luft VIII-B, Affidavit Copy of Document NI-11696, Prosecution Exhibit 1462, Nuremberg Trials, thousands of people were being gassed and cremated at Auschwitz, "Arbeitskommando E119, Stalag VIIIB, Mankendorf", "The camp for prisoners of war from Great Britain in Klimontow near Sosnowiec, Poland", Photos and personal stories of British prisoners, "Lamsdorf: Stalag VIIIB 344 Prisoner of War Camp 1940 - 1945", "A Prisoner of War's Diary from Stalag VIIIB 1940-45", "British POW describes Arbeitskommandos E196, E702 and Saubsdorf", "Detailed scrapbook from English POW held at Stalag 344 (VIIIB)", "The Central Prisoner-Of-War Museum In ambinowice-Opole", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stalag_VIII-B&oldid=1132803810, E62 in Gliwice-Sztygarw (Ligota Zabrska) (, E565 in Siersza Wodna, present-day district of, E586 in Kazimierz, present-day district of Sosnowiec, at the Kazimierz/Juliusz (, E587 in Czelad-Piaski at the Czelad coal mine (Stalag VIII-B Teschen), E702 in Klimontw, present-day district of Sosnowiec, at the Klimontw (, E719 in Gliwice-Sztygarw (Ligota Zabrska) (, E738 in Trzebinia at a refinery managed by, E744 in Kazimierz Grniczy, present-day district of Sosnowiec, at the Kazimierz-Juliusz (, E754 in Czelad at the Mars coal mine (252 POWs) (Stalag VIII-B Teschen), E758 in Knurw at Dworcowa street (169 POWs, 2 buildings), E760 in Bobrek, present-day district of Bytom - work for the Narrow-Gauge Railway Authority (58 POWs) (XII - 1943 Stalag VIII-B Teschen), E761 in Bobrek, present-day district of Bytom - transport (17 POWs) (XII - 1943 Stalag VIII-B Teschen), E762 in Bobrek, present-day district of Bytom at a concrete factory (, This page was last edited on 10 January 2023, at 17:42. Repatriation; Prisoners of war; Digital Folder: S-0523-0648\S-1451-0000-0070. My father enlisted in the RFC just as it became the RAF in 1918, he went to Egypt in May 39, went to Greece, escaped to Crete & was wounded & captured there. Research then told me about the Death Marches - and the fact that the starving prisoners ate grass. He told us of the march through Poland when men would be shot if they stopped for a second. Johnnie Shanks Over 2000 prisoners are estimated to have died from hypothermia, exhaustion, starvation and disease during the long march. The camp was created in 1941 as the base camp for a number of work-camps (Arbeitskommando) for prisoners of war working in the mines and industries of Upper Silesia. York, J Macgregor 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. Canada, 2nd Nov 1944 List of Prisoners of War Camps (Stalags and Oflags) in Germany and Incorporated Countries. Records from Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp other sources. Dad credits Rondeau for saving his life during the march to Spremburg. Hastings St D Gardiner 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. The first 200 British POWs arrived at Auschwitz in September 1943 but over the winter of 1943 another 1,400 British POWs (mostly captured in North Africa) were transported to E715. Kyrle Street Mountain View On the 27th March there is an entry about a shooting of a POWfor refusing to push a wheel barrow. Cheslyn Hay 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. Worcestershire, Geoffrey P Wadsworth Grange Town L W Walsh Helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by Stalag III B; Stalag IV B; Stalag IV C; Stalag IV F; Stalag VIII A Grlitz; M-Stammlager IX C; Sandbostel (Concentration camp) Stalag XI-A; Stalag XI B; . When Britainwent to waron 3 September 1939 there was none of the 'flag-waving patriotism' of August 1914. Ross-on-Wye Geneanet a souhait vous faciliter l'accs cette base trs riche. [4] Because of these organizational and number changes there is considerable confusion in accounts of prisoners, even in official German records. Welledale Cres Colchester There are photos of three funerals at BAB20 on the Pegasus website. Douglas The prefix E referred to English although other national were included. In January 1945 the Germans evacuated their POW camps westwards as the Soviet forces came nearer from the east. Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Laband E110 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Stauwerder E114 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Kunzendorf. STALAG VIIIB/344 LAMSDORF PRISONERS OF WAR Public Group | Facebook. There were less than 200 survivors found. "As Gribben made no attempts of pushing his wheelbarrow and as other POWs took up a threatening attitude, Sonntag fired." Six years of war brought many changes to familiar festive rituals. Brixton Hill Thanks again for your site. Henry A. 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. Place des Pointeliers Pleasant Harbour 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. Norton - Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War -. The Room 42 on the football plaque could refer to a room containing mainly POWs from the 42nd Division. All three units held their positions, under constant attack, until ordered to withdraw. Non-Commercial educational use for the purpose of teaching and instruction, including internal training. Trpr. The camp was opened by the Luftwaffe in June 1944 for RAF non-commissioned officers and took new prisoners until December 1944. This states that Joe refused to push a heavily laden wheelbarrow of earth. Thus a camp within a camp was created. 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, Thus a camp within a camp was created. Also other documents including weapons handling procedure; reports on escapes; arrest warrants; POW statements and correspondence with the Swiss legation in Germany. 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. By early October 1939 both battalions were in position on the Belgian frontier, where they were joined in April 1940 by the 1st and 4th East Lancashires, both of 42nd Division. B. Jackson The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. London, J E Hall The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344. Brinley Norman "Bryn" Williams Royal Engineers. 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. Allied aircrew prisoners were the responsibility of the Luftwaffe and Goering ordered that they were to be treated fairly. Yorkshire, 27th Jul 1942 The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. Royal Tank Regiment, The Last Escape. Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel. The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. His wartime experience was instrumental in forming the man he became. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. After the treaty of Versailles, the camp was closed down. Robert Kelly served with the East Lancashire Regiment during WW2 and was captured at Dunkirk in 1940. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small E715 was next to the I.G. We are now on Facebook. Experiences related by Prisoners of War at Stalag VIII/344 Lamsdorf, one of the largest German Prisoner-of-War camps, during the Second World War. 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. On the 27th March there is an entry about a shooting of a POWfor refusing to push a wheel barrow. Laurier Ave In January 1945, as the Soviet armies resumed their offensive and advanced into Germany, many of the prisoners were marched westward in groups of 200 to 300 in the so-called Death March. This Christmas Postcard was drawn by my father Kenneth (Ken) V F Wood in a competition. Batley paper mill, E88 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Hohrnlohehutte, E902 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Delbruckschachte-Hindenburg coal mine, E91 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mittenbruck Silesia. Dad arrived at Belaria in late October44. cement works, E209 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Bobrek. Essex, 26th Jul 1942 Mr Earl describes that the working party then moved to Reigersfield near Old Cossel in Upper Silesia. E561 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Tarnowtitz. In 2005 my mother also contacted Alison Robertson from an advert in the local paper. Instead of showers, there was gas. 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. Dulag LuftUsed for: Oberursel camp, Wetzlar camp, Captured Allied aircrew were all first sent to the Dulag Luft camp run by the Luftwaffe which comprised three sites all near Frankfurt; Oberursel, central Frankfurt and Wetzlar. Prisoners organised educational lessons, sports, entertainments and camp newspapers. Many marched 500 miles (800 km) and some almost 1000 miles (1600 km). Beresford Ave Knighton Road South Africa, R W Kinsey South Africa, Owen L Griggs Wallsend near Tyne Northumberland, 11th Apr 1944 recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. There were less than 200 survivors found. He told us of making soup from nettles and from potato peelings and he worked in a salt mine. Boundary Road Lawrence intended this montage was intended to commemorate the work of Judd Lawson (whose prewar portrait is incorporated in the montage). Clarkson St Mullins did well post war owning some hotels and is said to have employed Rondeau when he was on the outs. "Gerfreitter Sonntag lifted the wheelbarrow himself and pushed it a bit further in order to show the prisoner it was not too heavy. WO 311/948 Shooting of two escaping British prisoners of war at Working Camp 4 (making a rifle range), Ostrowo, Poland (attached to Stalag XXI D, Posen), 15 July . Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through Lamsdorf and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. They were in Polish and German. Pattingham Stalag Luft 5Used for: Stalag Luft 5, Stalag Luft v, Stalag Luft V, Stalag Luft 5. Norton Cottages On 10th May 1940 the Phoney War came to an abrupt end when Germany invaded Belgium and Holland. Buddle Street It was opened in June or July 1941 by the Luftwaffe and housed mostly Russian air force prisoners from the Eastern Front. 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). forestry department, E578 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Peiskretscham, Kreis Gleiwitz, E586 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Kazimierz, E587 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Czelads Piarski, E593 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Beuthen Schonberg, E594 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Konigshutte Ost, E603 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Hindenburg, E608 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Forest Party nr Hirschfelde, E608 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Forest party nr Hirschfelde, E62 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gleiwitz-Steigern, E701 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Tichau Czulow (paper factory), E702 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Klimontow coal mine, E707 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Sosnowitz, E711A Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Heydebreck, E714 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Blechhammer, Upper Silesia, E715 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Auschwitz, E724 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Schwientochlowitz, E725 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Konigshutte Bismark, E727 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mechtal Beuthen. On 10th May 1940 the Phoney War came to an abrupt end when Germany invaded Belgium and Holland. 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. Hunt and Dad had first met while at IX C. Hunt later became a doctor. 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. This list does not claim to be definitive. Stalag VIII-B was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the village of Lamsdorf (now ambinowice) in Silesia. Bradford Road West At that time 1957 John Mayhead came over to visit some of his POW friends, he from New Zealand, but dad had passed on at that time already. Today there are beautifully kept POW graveyards in peaceful surroundings, filled with birdsong. It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. For civilian and concentration camps, see List of concentration camps of Nazi Germany . E542 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Fohrengrund ub Gleiwtz, E552 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Hindenberg Philipstr. They remained in touch post war until Rondeaus early demise. West Java Manitoba 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. But Gribben unloaded a portion of the land on the ground." the long marchUsed for: the death marchA series of forced marches between January and April 1945 when Allied prisoners of war held in German military prison camps were forced to march westward away from the advancing Russian forces. Ferry Lane 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. E538 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Sosnowice. Following interrogation at Dulag Luft prisoners were mostly moved to one of seven Stalag Luft prisoner of war camps. Today I read the diaries of Private William Law. We first heard that he was a prisoner in Stalag 111B, from there to Stalag V111B hence the picture. 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. She gave us a copy of the Translation of the Deposition of W.J. E. K. West (Lofty) The montage was created in the camp by Warrant Officer William Lawrence RAF. During 1941-42 Stalag 8B was also used for captured RAF non-commissioned officers. Most prisoners were put to work in machine shops making pipes and repairing chemical plant equipment. The movie about the Great Escape was very moving as well to me. Dad died in 1957 at age 40, he was damaged coming back from the war PTS a word that came from the Vietnam era, but in those days you sucked it up and most never talked about it again, we basically grew up without a father. Many of them died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. Any idea of the names of the fellows in the photo from VIIIB? 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. All three units held their positions, under constant attack, until ordered to withdraw. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. stone quarry and factory E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mankendorf. By July 1944 it covered 60 acres and housed 2,500 RAF, 7,500 American and 900 other Allied prisoners. They were ordered to march to the West. Canada, Armand Rondeau R. L. Rutherford Cpl. Six of them were self-contained wards, each with space for about 100 patients. The Soviet Army reached the camp on 17 March 1945. I recall one of these broadcasts was by Anthony Eden himself. Joe Hunt and Armand Rondeau in particular. Canada, Eric W Earl Arbeitskommandos were set up to house lower ranks that were working in the coal mines, quarries, factories and on railways. Stalag 3A was aprisoner of war camp run by the German Army near Luckenwalde, 32 miles (51 kms) south of Berlin. Forest Gate Not only do I recognize a number of the poems that Dad had in his diary but names as well. Jim Snowsell 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. please If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small Lawrence, a trained engineer, carried out clandestine photography in the Camp between August 1942 - February 1945. However all food was provided from kitchens operated by army personnel in the camp proper. 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, Tamworth Air Force POWs in all camps are listed - Lamsdorf is identified as 344. They included general physicians and surgeons, even a neurosurgeon, psychiatrist, anesthesiologist and radiologist. E110 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Stauwerder, E114 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Kunzendorf. Even while still at Auschwitz we got radio broadcasts from the outside speaking about the gassings and burnings at Auschwitz. 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. Nous avons dvelopp pour cela un moteur de recherche ddi, accessible gratuitement tous via la Bibliothque numrise. 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. Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf was a large, German prisoner of war camp. International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive, Home > Browse tags > Prisoner of war camps. Thanks again for the contact. Later approximately 100,000 prisoners from Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, France, Greece, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and the United States passed through this camp. St Helens Laws, Ken Whitely The camp was commanded by SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Otto Brossmann. I think he had an argument with them about the fag." Date: Sep 1941-Sep 1944 From: Morris family : . Later the Lamsdorf camp was used by the Soviets to house Germans, both prisoners of war and civilians. The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-45. Corrections and integrations. Today there are beautifully kept POW graveyards in peaceful surroundings, filled with birdsong. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. W. Wynne Mason, Prisoners of War (1954), from the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945 series is a recommended reference text. Photograph taken by C E Chetwin. After that, British POWs numbers remained approximately 600 for the remainder of the war. The so-called Lazarett was set up on a separate site with eleven concrete buildings. Our James Badcock Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice in Silesia) also known as Kommando E562, became a part of the Auschwitz/Monowitz concentration camp complex. I looked at the names (listed in Part 2 of Arthur's Wartime Log) and I do recognize the handwriting of my uncle (Albert Siebel). 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. The date fits(if this was Pte Law's diary for 1942) and the reason fits the official German version. 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