Obercassel (British zone)
Oberamergau
Oberbayern
State archive: Staatsarchiv
für
Oberbayern:
Hauptstaatsarchiv V,
Schonfeldstr. 3,
D 8000 München 22,
Germany
Oberlenningen - Oberlenningen is a municipality in the third-largest German state Baden-Wuerttemberg. Oberlenningen is located in the administrative district Esslingen.
City archive in German: http://www.lenningen.de/index.php?id=202 I was able to find the site for Flanderskaserne; it was in Ulm, whatever that is, but I think it was an area that included Stuttgart. My problem is trying to figure out which DP camp I might have been sent to from there. I don't even know if my mother went with me. I have been told I lived in Oberlenningen but I don't know for how long or when. It is like a needle in a haystack. Thank you for the help. Your site is fascinating and I can't imagine the work you and others have gone to for the assembling of the site, and the pictures included really bring it to life. Rita Miller
Olga's note: Rita has reported that she has found her mother. Isn't that great! Obernzenn 1/4/05 Hi Olga,
I am researching the German D.P. Camps and I seem to be having trouble finding the ones my in-laws were at. They were at Camps Obernzenn and Raitersaich. I have their camps ID numbers and the U.N. team # as well. My husband and I are coming over to Germany and we are hoping we can see something there. My husband was born in the Hospital Camp Obernzenn, Uffenheim, Ansbach. Is there anything that you can help me with? Most appreciate this and thank you, best regards. Valerie Oelde (5 camps - British
zone)
Oerrel (Munsterlager in '47), #252, Land Niedersachsen (British zone), Poles
Ohmstede, Baltics
9/10/07 Hello
Olga.
My name is Robin Archer and I am researching my wife’s grandmother,
Olga Martinovkis. She taught English to the students at Camp
Ohmstede in the late 40’s. Her husband, Otto, ran the kitchens
there. I am trying to reach other people who lived in this camp to see if I can
link up old names. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks,
Robin Archer, Brampton, Ontario rarcher9219@rogers.com
Ohrbeck (British zone)
Oldenberg, #223, #224, about 5,000 residents, mostly Balts, Latvian, Lithuanian, Poles (British zone) (today: Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). The Lithuanians published a newspaper called, 'Buitis'.
Stadtarchiv Oldenburg
Damm 43
26135 Oldenburg
Tel: 04 41 - 2 35 26 56
Fax: 04 41 - 2 17 92 46
http://www.oldenburg.de/stadtarchiv/index.html
Publication in German about forced labour in Oldenburg, containing a chapter of Andreas Lembeck about DPs in Oldenburg and University of Oldenburg website
7/17/07
Maria Kubrek
from Goldenstedt/Oldenberg appears on my father's birth certificate
as a witness. If
anyone has any information about this camp or this person, please write
Mark Norek events@lifesanadventure.com.au
Sep 19, 2009 Hello,
I was tidying up some things in my house today and came across a wooden vanity
case/jewelry box stamped LITHUANIAN DP CAMP UNTERMBERG (Oldenburg) 1946. It
belonged to my grandfather (born in Latvia) and he had written on the bottom
of both little drawers his name (Joseph Zastar) and the name of the man
I presume either made the box or gave it to him - Rakausko Jono (also
a number - 737). My grandfather came to Canada in 1929, so I know he
was not at that camp, so he must have obtained the case at a later date, but
I was just wondering if anyone by the name of Rakausko Jono (John Rakauskas?)
might have been at that camp in 1946 .... might he have
family looking for information about him?
Thank You, Wendy Zubis wendyzubis@hotmail.com
Opladen / Leverkusen (British zone) Poles
Orlyk in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria --has its own page
Insula (left) & Orlyk (right) DP Camps
Osnabrück
/ Osnabrueck (Gut Klausheide in '47), #266, #267, over 8,600 residents,
Assembly Centre 269 was established
in Osnabrueck, Niedersachsen, British Zone of Germany, in April 1945. (Source:
Gislela Eckert, Hilfs- und Rehabilitierungsmänahmen der West-Alliierten des Zweiten
Weltkrieges für Displaced Persons (DPs) dargestellt am Beispiel Niedersachsens 1945 - 1952, (Ph.D. thesis), Braunschweig 1995.)
UNRRA Team 242 was there in November 1945. (Source: UN-Archives,
PAG-4/3.0.11.2.0.1:13, file 497)
For regional historical information the town archives in the State Archives at Osnabrueck (Niedersüchsisches Staatsarchiv Osnabrück, Schlöstr.
29, D-49074 Osnabrueck, Germany
Tel: +49(541) 33162-0
Fax: +49(541) 33162-62
E-Mail: poststelle@staatsarchiv-os.niedersachsen.de
Today known for the Muenster-Osnabrueck International Airport on Greven's soil.
400 Jewish Yugoslav officers
University of Osnabrueck
May 4, 2015
Dear Olga
Wonderful website.
My Father David Bucknall was in the British Army and posted to Osnabruck 1954-56. he remembers Poles & at least 1 elderly Ukrainian gentleman being there. They used to exchange their homemade bread for his British Army Cigarette ration
for which he was eternally grateful!
I don't have any photos from Germany but heres a picture of Dad (front, 2nd from left) back in the UK in 1956
http://kresy-siberia.org/hom/element/sgt-e-franciszek/sgt-e-franciszek/
Tim Bucknall
Congleton, UK
UK Director #KresySiberia
www.kresy-siberia.org
twitter #kresysiberia
Ossendorf, near Köln, 4000 Poles, http://www.ossendorf.de/, the archive might be in Köln,
Memories of forced worker, John Worsnop, made Commandant of Police in Ossendorf: http://polish-patriot.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-transit.html
I am the 58 year old daughter of Aniela Gliniak who was in a DP camp in Ossendorf by the looks of these papers. She did not talk much of the WWII. It was too awful but I was able to get this piece of document that she did not throw out.
PS. I like your art work!
Best Regards,
Ms. Mary Stewart reginamarystewart@gmail.com
Osterode, #2922,
Land Niedersachsen (British zone) Poles, Yugoslavs, Balts - see also
Osterode under slave labor camps: Germany
Slave Camps O-Q
Osterode am Harz often simply called Osterode, is a town in south-eastern
Niedersachsen on the south-western edge of the Harz mountains. It is the seat
of government of the district of Osterode. The town is twinned with Scarborough,
in the United Kingdom. Osterode is located on the German Framework Road.
Osterode am Harz City
archive- Stadtarchiv
http://www.stadtarchiv-osterode.archiv.net
City of Osterode: http://www.osterode.de/index.htm
http://www.thisisharz.com/osterode.html
8/20/10 Dear
Olga,
Jan Gertenbach jag.gertenbach@gmail.com
From Mary Holmes' memories - blog
on Osterode http://www.webwanderers.org
- 131 G.I.S. - C.B.S.R.A. Commission was established
there in house: VILLA UHL.
This group belongs to: Admin.Sub. Area, GOSLAR (Harz) BOAR 11. - This office
Osterode was cancelled 20th June, 1950.
Hint: German stamp collectors have written one booklet about all groups, camps
with the Brit. FIELD
POST Address. Ask me. klaus.schlincke@t-online.de
Ottmarsbocholt (British zone)
Oventrop (British zone)
Oxford (British
zone) Dragahn-Dannenberg, Latvians
City archives: Stadtarchiv Lüneburg
Rathaus
21335 Lüneburg
Germany
Phone: 49-4131-309223
Fax: 49-4131-309586
Email: stadtarchiv@stadt.lueneburg.de
Web: http://www.lueneburg.de
County archives: Kreisarchiv
Landkreis Lüneburg
Auf dem Michaeliskloster 4
21335 Lüneburg
Germany
Phone: 49-4131-26-1
Here is research in German about forced labour camps; and it says in the area Dragahn, Danneberg were forced labour camps. But the name "Oxford" was not mentioned. This is the link: http://www.zwangsarbeit-forschung.de
Oxford camp was in Lüneburg (Lueneburg) from December 1945 (probably already before) until June 1947 or May 1948. The camp had the DPAC (Displaced Persons Assembly Centre) numbers 257 in December 1945, 2510 from December 1945 to March 1946 (and onward?), 2519 from February to June 1947. It had the DPACS number 83/2519 or simply 83 from June 1947 to May 1948.
Dannenberg and Lueneburg are no adjacent towns. In Dannenberg also was a DP camp at least from June to September 1947 with the DPACS number 89 or 89/2510, possibly already before these dates. I have not found a name for this camp in the British national archives, so perhaps it was a second Oxford camp. IRO, International Refugees Organization, began to work only on July 1st, 1947. Until June 30, 1947 the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) took care for the DP camps. Kind regards, Wolfgang Strobel, author of Post der befreiten Zwangsarbeiter - Displaced Persons Mail Paid in Deutschland 1945 - 1949.
G'Day Olga,
Greetings from Laura, South Australia. The Good Book says: "Ask and you will receive, believing it to be so". I did ask, believed and your web-site came into my world. Thank you. I need your assistance please?
I have German and Latvian copies of my birth certificates issued as No: 41, (I don't know the significance of that number) D.P. Oxford Camp 26th April 1946. Can you assist please?
My mother remembers that we arrived in Germany in 1944. From there until we left Trieste, northern Italy on the good ship Dundalk Bay, there is a forgotten gap of just over five years.
I have contacted the Australian Archives in Canberra about our migration records and am waiting for a reply. I trust that with your assistance and whatever information the Australian Government gleaned from my mother and father as newly arrived Displaced Persons will help fill in those gaps.
I have witnessed the interest that three of my boys have shown in matters dealing with World War 11, so I am sure that they also would benefit from the information their father is seeking.
With kind regards Hans Simons / Australia