He also stated that the Germans saved his leg when they put maggots on his wound. Our Sgt. c/o Quebec Liquor Commission
The sentry Sonntag continued to order my great uncle to move the barrow and threatened use of his firearm. He worked in a series of work camps including Groschowitz (Groszowice) from July 1940 to October 1940 on building works, Gumpertsdorf (Komprachcice) from November 1940 to January 1941 on roadworks, Heuerstein, from 25th May 1941 to 3rd June 1941, in a quarry, Setzdorf (Vpenn), from 18th August 1941 to 27 February 1944, in another quarry, Jagerndorf (Strzelniki), from March 1944 to August 1944, on council work, Freudenthal (Bruntl), from August 1944 to September 1944, in a linen factory, and Gurschdorf (Skoroice) from September 1944 to March 1945, a quarry that was also a punishment camp. Holme Rd
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. Pte. paper mill, E88 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Hohrnlohehutte, E902 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Delbruckschachte-Hindenburg coal mine, E91 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mittenbruck Silesia. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. She gave us a copy of the Translation of the Deposition of W.J. New Zealand, Frank W Day
Lye
Henry A. Wild Kipp
London, Ont
The working party was known as BAB 20/3COY. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. Over 2000 prisoners are estimated to have died from hypothermia, exhaustion, starvation and disease during the long march. Herefordshire, Johnnie P Baple
E110 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Stauwerder, E114 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Kunzendorf. Saint Road
Lawrence, a trained engineer, carried out clandestine photography in the Camp between August 1942 - February 1945. qw Basic: $26 a month Shopify: $71 a month Advanced: $235 a month ii xj Liberated April 22, 1945. Here they worked on a chemical factory building wooden huts, laying pipes and trenches etc. Dulag Luft was used for interrogating Allied aircrew who could be held in solitary confinement whilst being questioned for a week or two but some were held for up to 28 days. Oxford St
(The Rapids)
The prefix E referred to English although other national were included. 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. Opened in 1939 Stalag 8B was aprisoner of war camp run by the German Army located at Lamsdorf, now Lambinowice, in south-west Poland. Staffs, 1st Dec 1943
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. 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. R. L. Rutherford
Farben chemical plant just a few hundred meters away from the entrance to Monowitz. My family were told that Sonntag was not seen in the camp again and they believed he was sent to the Eastern Front. This series of separate marches from individual camps is collectively known as the long march. Hunter
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. In the time of successive wars, it provided facilities where prisoners-of-war were detained . Almost 10,000 Bomber Command aircrew became prisoners of war after they were shot down or baled out. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice in Silesia) also known as Kommando E562, became a part of the Auschwitz/Monowitz concentration camp complex. The lucky ones got far enough to the west to be liberated by the American army. stone quarry and factory E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mankendorf. Norton Cottages
I am enclosing his picture and the obituary of him. He said that Joe was part of a working party formed at Fort 11 near Torun. From . Cpl. Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf and Teschen: documents (microfilm), https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb1556-wl546, Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf and Teschen authorities. Between February and March 1944, 800 were transferred to camps at Blechhammer and Heydebreck-Cosel in Germany. Steel works, E149 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Buchenlust, E17 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Oppeln. E715 was next to the I.G. Gordon D Pepper
Cheshire, 26th April 1944
Papers relating to the camps Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf and Teschen Camp, 1942-1944, including statistics on inmates; deaths/discharges; executions; health statistics; organisational changes. There were 200 men in the party and their job was to build huts, lay pipes, clear snow etc. Robert Kelly East Lancashire Regiment. [3] Some POWs made contact with concentration camp inmates and passed on information about the war's progress that had been acquired using secret radios in the POW camp. I thoroughly enjoyed scrolling through the web site earlier today. 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. Shropshire, 24th Aug 1942
On 10th May 1940 the Phoney War came to an abrupt end when Germany invaded Belgium and Holland. The military court at the time granted Sonntag an acquittal as he had "acted in accordance with the instructions issued by the Kommander i/c POWs, Major General Von Osterrich. Camp commander Czesaw Gborski was later put on trial for his role in running the camp. 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 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. We first heard that he was a prisoner in Stalag 111B, from there to Stalag V111B hence the picture. Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through Lamsdorf and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. Many of them died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. Lawrence, a trained engineer, carried out clandestine photography in the Camp between August 1942 - February 1945. The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. In December 1943 the camp was split with RAF prisoners staying at Lamsdorf which was renumbered Stalag 344 and Army prisoners being moved away. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. 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. Ray Dudley
L W Walsh
Canada, Armand Rondeau
Photograph taken by C E Chetwin. This Christmas Postcard was drawn by my father Kenneth (Ken) V F Wood in a competition. Here they worked on a chemical factory building wooden huts, laying pipes and trenches etc. Ayot St. Peter
Jim Humphreys
Christmas celebrations during theSecond World Waroften had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. Plaistow
"Gerfreitter Sonntag lifted the wheelbarrow himself and pushed it a bit further in order to show the prisoner it was not too heavy. Westerhope
I mixed with the civilian population at Auschwitz. Stalag Luft 5Used for: Stalag Luft 5, Stalag Luft v, Stalag Luft V, Stalag Luft 5. Thanks again for the contact. 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. Harold Darn
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. Many of them were finally repatriated towards the end of 1945 through the port of Odessa on the Black Sea. Trpr. [5] The Czech people in the villages and towns, through which they passed, passed food and clothing to them. They were ordered to march to the West. The only two to survive on Dad's plane were he (Jim Snowsell) and Wild Kipp. Stalag VIII-B and Stalag Luft VIII-B Lamsdorf, Poland (now Lambinowice) Stalag VIII-B Teschen Poland Location N/E 49-18. Banstead
A notorious German Army prisoner of war camp, later renumbered Stalag-344, in Silesia. James Badcock
Very little is documented on this camp andthis entry has been added for consistency purposes. The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344. Robert Stoker
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. Essex, 25th Jul 1942
Staffs, 29th Jul 1942
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STALAG VIIIB/344 LAMSDORF PRISONERS OF WAR Public Group | Facebook. 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. With the start of the Soviet VistulaOder Offensive in January 1945, Auschwitz was evacuated by the SS. My mother wrote to The Legion magazine a number of years ago requesting information. Essex, 26th Jul 1942
It opened in March 1942 by theLuftwaffeto hold captured Allied airmen. Victoria
He weighed 6 stone when he came home and was of a nervous disposition for the rest of his life. Lamsdorf became a prison camp in 1870 during the Franco Prussian War - and was used as such until the late 1940s. It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. Commercial use. His wartime experience was instrumental in forming the man he became. Manitoba
There were less than 200 survivors found. The British Medics were going to amputate his leg prior to his capture. For civilian and concentration camps, see List of concentration camps of Nazi Germany . Joseph Gribben Princess Louise Battalion Middlesex Regiment (d.27th Mar 1942). The camp was closed in September 1944 when most prisoners were transferred to Stalag Luft 3. The montage was created in the camp by Warrant Officer William Lawrence RAF. Non-Commercial educational use for the purpose of teaching and instruction, including internal training. cement factory, E203 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Oppeln. There are photos of three funerals at BAB20 on the Pegasus website. Following interrogation at Dulag Luft prisoners were mostly moved to one of seven Stalag Luft prisoner of war camps. They remained in touch post war until Rondeaus early demise. Many of them were finally repatriated towards the end of 1945 through the port of Odessa on the Black Sea. 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 ). Nr Wellington Wood
International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive, Home > Browse tags > Prisoner of war camps. The visit has really inspired me to make sure that Dad's name is recorded and remembered. Lamsdorf became a prison camp in 1870 during the Franco Prussian War - and was used as such until the late 1940s. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Stourbridge, F Firman
13 St Saviours Rd
The lucky ones got far enough to the west to be liberated by the American army. All three of the 1st Battalions then took up defensive positions to cover the evacuation of the BEF. Roy A Flood
I was at Auschwitz nearly every dayNobody could live in Auschwitz and work in the plant, or even come down to the plant without knowing what was common knowledge to everybody. stone quarry and factory, E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mankendorf. Cheslyn Hay
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. Hornchurch
Nr. 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. In April 1945, the British POWs at Auschwitz were liberated by the U.S. Army at Stalag VII A in Moosburg. There were more than 700 subsidiary Arbeitskommandos (working parties outside the main camp). Beresford Ave
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 was built in March 1941 on the grounds of a former Czech barracks. 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). More than 100,000 English-speaking POWs were held there, either at the base camp or in over 600 working parties in the area. Laurier Ave
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. Although the British POWs received better treatment than the concentration camp prisoners, they only received slightly more food. When I began to research my family history I got Dad's military records from the MOD. The crematorium where 1500 bodies were burnt was in the south-east part of the camp. He had been at IX C since his capture in mid August. All Rights Reserved except for Fair Dealing exceptions otherwise permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. East Barnet
[1] It was later known as Stalag VIII-B. 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. We are now on Facebook. Worcestershire, Geoffrey P Wadsworth
Darling St
Norton
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