Like this page to receive our updates. Stalag VIII B was established on 4 October 1939. Cambridge If you have any unwanted Thanks again for your site. The camp was commanded by SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Otto Brossmann. The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers and the free to access part of the website is funded by donations from our visitors. On the 27th March there is an entry about a shooting of a POWfor refusing to push a wheel barrow. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. If you have any unwanted 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. 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). Scotland, 12th Jul 1942 My family were told that Sonntag was not seen in the camp again and they believed he was sent to the Eastern Front. 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). 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. E110 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Stauwerder, E114 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Kunzendorf. Neepawa [1] It was later known as Stalag VIII-B.[2]. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. Schmitz (used in the war crimes investigation). He may have arrived too late. The date fits(if this was Pte Law's diary for 1942) and the reason fits the official German version. Released by the advancing Russian forces in Upper Silesia. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. My father, P/O GD Campbell, 424 Squadron RCAF, was also at Belaria and Luckenwalde. Use on personal social media accounts, provided the individuals are not promoting themselves commercially. It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. Explore the Collection. All three of the 1st Battalions then took up defensive positions to cover the evacuation of the BEF. Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through Lamsdorf and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. "As Gribben made no attempts of pushing his wheelbarrow and as other POWs took up a threatening attitude, Sonntag fired." Ayot St. Peter 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. Batley 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. Photograph taken by C E Chetwin. 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. It was opened in May 1943 for non commissioned officers captured during 1943 along with many transferred from Stalag Luft 1 and Stalag Luft 3 camps. All three of the 1st Battalions then took up defensive positions to cover the evacuation of the BEF. We are now on Facebook. A civilian labourer apparently confirmed this version. E561 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Tarnowtitz. I recall one of these broadcasts was by Anthony Eden himself. Farben chemical plant just a few hundred meters away from the entrance to Monowitz. International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive, Home > Browse tags > Prisoner of war camps. A. Carmichael Dad had one of their recordings. Ferry Road The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. She gave us a copy of the Translation of the Deposition of W.J. Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf was a large, German prisoner of war camp. Canada, 22nd Jul 1942 [3] In June 1943 it was placed under the administrative control of Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf and was renamed Stalag IV-B/Z. Non-Commercial educational use for the purpose of teaching and instruction, including internal training. Regina, Saskatchewan This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. Buddle Street Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice in Silesia) also known as Kommando E562, became a part of the Auschwitz/Monowitz concentration camp complex. Essex, 26th Jul 1942 Many of them died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. A. E. Collins On 10th May 1940 the Phoney War came to an abrupt end when Germany invaded Belgium and Holland. In January 1945 the camp held just under 9000 prisoners of whom 8000 were American and 820 British. Tpr. 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. Six of them were self-contained wards, each with space for about 100 patients. There were more than 700 subsidiary Arbeitskommandos (working parties outside the main camp). Fawdon However all food was provided from kitchens operated by army personnel in the camp proper. Records of Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp from other sources. Research then told me about the Death Marches - and the fact that the starving prisoners ate grass. Sutton Oak Saw Mill Stan Living-Stone 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. Watery Lane We are now on Facebook. All the camp knew it. Quebec Boundary Road 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. Your email address will not be published. Today I read the diaries of Private William Law. Our The montage was created in the camp by Warrant Officer William Lawrence RAF. Stalag Luft 3Used for: Stalag Luft 3, Stalag Luft iii, Stalag Luft III, Belaria camp, Belaria, Belaria compound, Zagan camp, Zegan camp, Sagan camp, Stalag Luft 3 was in Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan, 100 miles (161 kms) south-east of Berlin. Want to know what life was like during the War? Stalag Prisoners of War of the Germans A group of POWs at Stalag Luft 1 This part of the website is currently being rebuilt and is not yet fully functioning. I think he had an argument with them about the fag." James Badcock He weighed 6 stone when he came home and was of a nervous disposition for the rest of his life. Alternatively, search more than 1 million objects from Stockport Altogether, some 35,000 parachute and glider troops were involved in the operation. Essex, J. R. Skan Over 2000 prisoners are estimated to have died from hypothermia, exhaustion, starvation and disease during the long march. Harold Darn In November last year 2011 (Rugby world cup was on there) we went to New Zealand as mom at 91 had passed on we were there two weeks and just as we were leaving John did as well. But Gribben unloaded a portion of the land on the ground." Some New Zealand soldiers or air force personnel were held prisoner in France (St. Hippolyte, Fort de la Rivere) as well. This series of separate marches from individual camps is collectively known as the long march. cement factory, E196 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Opoleonoora. [4] Because of these organizational and number changes there is considerable confusion in accounts of prisoners, even in official German records. [5] The Czech people in the villages and towns, through which they passed, passed food and clothing to them. Later the Lamsdorf camp was used by the Soviets to house Germans, both prisoners of war and civilians. It was located in the area of the former Camp II (Lager II), initially referred to as a camp of field artillery (Feldlager). Lawson, a New Zealander captured in Crete, was one of the Army Escape Committee's expert forgers. During 1941-42 Stalag 8B was also used for captured RAF non-commissioned officers. Robert Kelly served with the East Lancashire Regiment during WW2 and was captured at Dunkirk in 1940. They included general physicians and surgeons, even a neurosurgeon, psychiatrist, anesthesiologist and radiologist. Town End nr Gleadless Birmingham, 25th Jun 1942 For years Prussian and - subsequently - German soldiers had trained there. South Africa, R W Kinsey (Robert Leslie Rutherford) Stalag 3A was liberated by the Russians in April 1945. - Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War -. The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. Stalag Luft 5Used for: Stalag Luft 5, Stalag Luft v, Stalag Luft V, Stalag Luft 5. Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Laband E110 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Stauwerder E114 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Kunzendorf. 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. It is estimated that 200,000 prisoners passed through Stalag 3A during the war of whom approximately 5,000 died. There were less than 200 survivors found. stone quarry, E138 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Ratibor. Almost 10,000 Bomber Command aircrew became prisoners of war after they were shot down or baled out. Dagenham They were ordered to march to the West. Welwyn Garden City 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. London, Ont Canada, R. P. M. Vander Heyden (Rein) 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). The so-called Lazarett was set up on separate site with eleven concrete buildings. The camp was commanded by SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Otto Brossmann. This list does not claim to be definitive. During the Franco-Prussian War, a camp for French prisoners of war was established here, which housed some 3000 French POW's. The Room 42 on the football plaque could refer to a room containing mainly POWs from the 42nd Division. It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. Dandenong Rd The montage also features some of the stamps which he carved. Not only do I recognize a number of the poems that Dad had in his diary but names as well. South Africa, 26th Jul 1942 Kyrle Street Today there are beautifully kept POW graveyards in peaceful surroundings, filled with birdsong. Staffs, 1st Dec 1943 Montreal Both being from Quebec and able to speak Armands mother tongue they became good pals. 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. Records from Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp other sources. He ordered Gribben now to push the barrow. Birmingham, Ron Cartwright Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Many marched 500 miles (800 km) and some almost 1000 miles (1600 km). The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. 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. 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. I mixed with the civilian population at Auschwitz. MG Jenkins 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment, Pte. Christmas celebrations during theSecond World Waroften had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. H. J. 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. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. Andrew Jeffrey Evinou 4th Btn. Your email address will not be published. Terrace Rd At this same location there had been a prisoner camp during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Canada, Armand Rondeau 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. After that, British POWs numbers remained approximately 600 for the remainder of the war. Repatriation; Prisoners of war; Digital Folder: S-0523-0648\S-1451-0000-0070. 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. Pine Ave Join or Log Into Facebook. There are various post cards of a funeral at BAB20 for a man shot for smoking a fag. I stood on the railway platform where Dad would have arrived, and saw the entrance to the camp. E94 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Emilienhoff. In the first period of its existence when the camp operated as independent Stalag VIII D Teschen, and from September 1942 to December 1943 as a branch of the prisoner-of-war camp in ambowice - Stalag VIII B/Z Teschen, around 500 people were incarcerated. Worsbrough Dale Welledale Cres Want to find out more about your relative's service? 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. Instead of showers, there was gas. Add a Name to this List But Gribben unloaded a portion of the land on the ground." Mountain View By early 1942 they housed 7,000 prisoners from Belgium, France, Poland and Yugoslavia. Len Walker Those who were unable to march were killed with the butts of the guns by the so-called Nachkommando which followed the columns. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on the 26th of January 1945. Canterbury Gillingham Australia, RAF No. Y Yithers The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. Commercial use. They included general physicians and surgeons, even a neuro-surgeon, psychiatrist, anesthesiologist, radiologist. Charles Coward testified about what he saw at Monowitz at the IG Farben Trial during the Nuremberg trials: I made it a point to get one of the guards to take me to town under the pretense of buying new razor blades and stuff for our boys. The camp was closed in September 1944 when most prisoners were transferred to Stalag Luft 3. 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. St Kilda While Esselmeyer is long gone the band is still active. E. A. Drake East Street It was built in March 1941 on the grounds of a former Czech barracks. This led to representatives from the Red Cross making two visits to E715 in the summer 1944. London, 29th July 1942 If you think that this page can be improved, please email us quoting its address (URL) and/or the item unique identifier. Yorkshire, J. Stourbridge, F Firman New Zealand, Frank W Day The prefix E referred to English although other national were included. railway depot loading and unloading trains. L W Walsh please Hundreds of thousands passed through those gates - and tens of thousands died there. Captured RAF prisoners were first sent to the Dulag Luft transit camps near Frankfurt and then mostly taken to one of seven Stalag Luft Camps. Allied aircrew prisoners were the responsibility of the Luftwaffe and Goering ordered that they were to be treated fairly. Buchenwald was built in 1937 to imprison opponents of the Nazi regime and others they saw as "undesirable." 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. His wartime experience was instrumental in forming the man he became. Like this page to receive our updates. Cape Town In 1941 a separate camp, Stalag VIII-F was set up close by to house the Soviet prisoners. A part of Stalag VIII-B was separated by building new barbed-wire fences, designated Stalag Luft VIII-B. The hospital facilities at Stalag VIII-B were among the best in all Stalags. [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. This article is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany (and in German occupied territory) during any conflict. Lamsdorf became a prison camp in 1870 during the Franco Prussian War - and was used as such until the late 1940s. They were ordered to march to the West. The Avenue London, 19th Aug 1942 If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small cement factory, E203 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Oppeln. E715 was next to the I.G. D. A. 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Newcastle upon Tyne, 17th Jun 1942 2023 Lindsay Chitty Philatelist | Powered by, Correspondence and Photographs Stalag VIIIB, WWII. When I began to research my family history I got Dad's military records from the MOD. Stalag 8B Usef for: Stalag VIII-B, Stalag vii-b, Stalag-344, Lamsdorf camp Opened in 1939 Stalag 8B was a prisoner of war camp run by the German Army located at Lamsdorf, now Lambinowice, in south-west Poland. Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through Lamsdorf and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. 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. 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). The Archive team would love to hear from you. 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. on the base drum is for Major Jimmy Howe who later became the Musical Director of the Scots Guards. 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. E538 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Sosnowice. Grenadier Guards. All three units held their positions, under constant attack, until ordered to withdraw. c/o S. E. Petherbridge My mother wrote to The Legion magazine a number of years ago requesting information. His lifelong involvement in the British Legion is testimony to that. STALAG VIIIB/344 LAMSDORF PRISONERS OF WAR Public Group | Facebook. 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. It is located in Poland near the small town of Lamsdorf (now called Lambinowice) in what was then known as Upper Silesia. They remained in touch post war until Rondeaus early demise. 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. Johnnie W. Mayhead The lazarett was headed by a German officer with the title Oberst Arzt ("Colonel Doctor"), but the staff was made up entirely of prisoners. True Heart Inn Kidderminster, 29th Jul 1942 The working party was known as BAB 20/3COY. 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. Could this be Hank Mullins, RCAF? Kelowna, BC Pte. Of the many horrors that would emerge from the bloody conflict, few could match the cruel concentration camps established by Germany. 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. Here they worked on a chemical factory building wooden huts, laying pipes and trenches etc. His lifelong involvement in the British Legion is testimony to that. The only two to survive on Dad's plane were he (Jim Snowsell) and Wild Kipp. Jun 2016 Couples. The three Lancashire battalions were among the last British troops to embark on the night 2nd/3rd June. In 1941 a separate camp, Stalag VIII-F was set up close by to house the Soviet prisoners. Robert Henry Sharp 1st Lothian Edinburgh Horse Yeomanry. Clacton-on-Sea The Central Prisoner-Of-War Museum In Lambinowice. Pte. He said that Joe was part of a working party formed at Fort 11 near Torun. The lucky ones got far enough to the west to be liberated by the American army. In February 1945 2,000 RAF prisoners arrived having been evacuated from Stalag Luft 3 and Stalag Luft 7. stone quarry and factory, E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mankendorf. 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. The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344. Today I read the diaries of Private William Law. Some were later released, others sent to Gulags in Siberia. Cpl. Sergeant Charles Coward even managed to pass intelligence about the atrocities occurring at Monowitz through letters to the British War Office. Beverley High Rd 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. Johnnie Shanks The majority of the interned were British, French, Polish and Yugoslavian soldiers. 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. Scotland, 26th Jul 1942 Three days earlier, the inmates of Monowitz had been sent on their own death march to Gleiwitz near the Czech border where they boarded trains to Buchenwald in Germany and Mauthausen in Austria. The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344. Released by the advancing Russian forces in Upper Silesia. Stalag Luft 1Usef for: Stalag Luft 1, Stalag Luft i, Stalag Luft I, Barth camp, Opened in July 1940 Stalag Luft 1 was the first of the Stalag Luft camps run by the Luftwaffe to hold captured Allied aircrew. The Soviet Army reached the camp 17 March 1945. 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. Later during the war, 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. 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. 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