I am enclosing his picture and the obituary of him. After that, British POWs numbers remained approximately 600 for the remainder of the war. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Scarborough, 7th May 1942
There were less than 200 survivors found. 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. 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. During 1941-42 Stalag 8B was also used for captured RAF non-commissioned officers. True Heart Inn
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Although the British POWs received better treatment than the concentration camp prisoners, they only received slightly more food. Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Andrew Jeffrey Evinou 4th Btn. James Badcock
The date fits(if this was Pte Law's diary for 1942) and the reason fits the official German version. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. Six of them were self-contained wards, each with space for about 100 patients. Darling St
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Birmingham, 25th Jun 1942
Cheshire, 26th April 1944
He told us of making soup from nettles and from potato peelings and he worked in a salt mine. Kyrle Street
The lucky ones got far enough to the west to be liberated by the American army. The hospital facilities at Stalag VIII-B were among the best in all Stalags. Hall School
stone quarry and factory, E119 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Mankendorf. Stalag VIII B was established on 4 October 1939. All three units held their positions, under constant attack, until ordered to withdraw. "Gerfreitter Sonntag lifted the wheelbarrow himself and pushed it a bit further in order to show the prisoner it was not too heavy. Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp Arbeitskommando E501, Stalag8b, E1. I have used the German names for these places and have put as many Polish or Czech names that I can identify in brackets. Canada, 2nd Nov 1944
Basegreen Ave
Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through Lamsdorf and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. Lamsdorf became a prison camp in 1870 during the Franco Prussian War - and was used as such until the late 1940s. 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. IWM collections. John Warren
The inmates who were selected to be gassed went through the procedure of preparing for a bath, they stripped their clothes off, and walked into the bathing room. 10thFeb 2023 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. 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. Ormskirk
R. L. Rutherford
The British Medics were going to amputate his leg prior to his capture. Add a Name to this List
My mother wrote to The Legion magazine a number of years ago requesting information. Saint Road
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25 Operational Training Unit Wellington lost. Ronald Arnold
It was liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945. Ferry Lane
If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small 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. 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. 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. Opened in 1939 Stalag 8B was aprisoner of war camp run by the German Army located at Lamsdorf, now Lambinowice, in south-west Poland. In February 1945 2,000 RAF prisoners arrived having been evacuated from Stalag Luft 3 and Stalag Luft 7. I would very much like to get in touch with Paul Law (William's son who submitted the dairies). 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. East Barnet
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Air Force POWs in all camps are listed - Lamsdorf is identified as 344. 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 . Compiling Agency: The names in this collection were made searchable through the World Memory Project. 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. Hunter. Your email address will not be published. Lawrence, a trained engineer, carried out clandestine photography in the Camp between August 1942 - February 1945. Plaistow
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. As a teenager, she remembered Dad's return and how very weak and ill he was. On the 27th March there is an entry about a shooting of a POWfor refusing to push a wheel barrow. J. Six years of war brought many changes to familiar festive rituals. Stalag VIIIB, later renumbered Stalag 344, was located near the small town of Lamsdorf (now called ambinowice) in Silesia, Poland. 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. E715 was next to the I.G. I see the name Mullins as part of the cast in one of the plays. Cape Town
Clarkson St
They included general physicians and surgeons, even a neuro-surgeon, psychiatrist, anesthesiologist, radiologist. Hunt and Dad had first met while at IX C. Hunt later became a doctor. At this same location there had been a prisoner camp during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Baitford
Update: The Wartime Memories Project is unfortunately no longer in contact with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. Food rations were supplemented by, in theory, one Red Cross parcel per week for each prisoner. Alison was researching a number of deaths in prison camps. "Arbeitskommando E119, Stalag VIIIB, Mankendorf", http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/pow/e119.html, "The camp for prisoners of war from Great Britain in Klimontow near Sosnowiec, Poland", http://klimontow.na12.pl/content/view/97/47/, Photos and personal stories of British prisoners, "Lamsdorf: Stalag VIIIB 344 Prisoner of War Camp 1940 - 1945", http://www.stalag-viiib.com/content/pow-diary-1944-stalag-viiib-jhhallam, "A Prisoner of War's Diary from Stalag VIIIB 1940-45", http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/20/a8437520.shtml, http://www.trasksdad.com/Don%20Hall/lamsdorf.htm, "British POW describes Arbeitskommandos E196, E702 and Saubsdorf", http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/45/a6471245.shtml, http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/134484.html, "The Central Prisoner-Of-War Museum In ambinowice-Opole", http://www.cmjw.pl/www/index_en.php?id=wstep, Pages using infobox military installation with unknown parameters, Articles with dead external links from November 2014, Articles with Polish-language external links, Articles with French-language external links, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Schalkendorf in the Kreis (Area of) Opole, E561 Tarnowtitz, railway depot loading and unloading trains, E706 Coal mine near Jaworzno, mostly Australians and New Zealanders, E902 Delbruckschachte-Hindenburg coal mine. They included general physicians and surgeons, even a neurosurgeon, psychiatrist, anesthesiologist and radiologist. Research then told me about the Death Marches - and the fact that the starving prisoners ate grass. *The names on the lists might not all be listed individually yet on the alphabetical list below (it takes a long time to do this). The British Medics were going to amputate his leg prior to his capture. [5] The Czech people in the villages and towns, through which they passed, passed food and clothing to them. But Gribben unloaded a portion of the land on the ground." 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. A Royal Canadian Air Force POW in Stalag VIII-B prison camp. Jim Snowsell
The camp was liberated by the Red Army on the 26th of January 1945. Thanks again for your site. Harold Darn
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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. Forest Gate
The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344. - Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War -. If you would like to enquire about commercial use of Archive items published on this page, please email us quoting its address (URL) and/or the item unique identifier. Sgt. Cpl. Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Laband E110 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Stauwerder E114 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Gross Kunzendorf. 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. His wartime experience was instrumental in forming the man he became. Cambridge
Geneanet a souhait vous faciliter l'accs cette base trs riche. Records from Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp other sources. At this same location there had been a prisoner camp during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. 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). Prisoners organised educational lessons, sports, entertainments and camp newspapers. In December 1943 the camp was split with RAF prisoners staying at Lamsdorf which was renumbered Stalag 344 and Army prisoners being moved away. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. Town End nr Gleadless
limestone quarry. A civilian labourer apparently confirmed this version. The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-45. on the base drum is for Major Jimmy Howe who later became the Musical Director of the Scots Guards. I have just come back from a visit to the remains of Stalag VIIIb and the Prisoner of War Museum at Lambinovice (Lamsdorf). Tpr. Records of Stalag 8b Prisoner of War Camp from other sources. At this same location there had been a prisoner camp during the Franco-Prussian . Les Chatterton
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. Stalag VIII-B and Stalag Luft VIII-B Lamsdorf, Poland (now Lambinowice) Stalag VIII-B Teschen Poland Location N/E 49-18. c/o S. E. Petherbridge
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Stalag Luft I was a German World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) camp near Barth, Western Pomerania, Germany, for captured Allied airmen. Letters from Frank Morris while prisoner-of-war in Stalag VIII-B. But Gribben unloaded a portion of the land on the ground." E. K. West (Lofty)
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 . Colmore Ave
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf and Teschen: documents (microfilm), https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb1556-wl546, Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf and Teschen authorities. Restrictions and conditions apply. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 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. "As Gribben made no attempts of pushing his wheelbarrow and as other POWs took up a threatening attitude, Sonntag fired." It is located in Poland near the small town of Lamsdorf (now called Lambinowice) in what was then known as Upper Silesia. Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 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. 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. Commercial use. A part of Stalag VIII-B was separated by building new barbed-wire fences, designated Stalag Luft VIII-B. The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. This series of separate marches from individual camps is collectively known as the long march. Near Walsall
Brinley Norman "Bryn" Williams Royal Engineers. Australia, RAF No. During the Franco-Prussian War, a camp for French prisoners of war was established here, which housed some 3000 French POW's. The Avenue
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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. SCENES AT STALAG VIIIB (LAMSDORF) PRISONER OF WAR CAMP, GERMANY 1942 - 1945 Unable to open [object Object]: HTTP 0 attempting to load TileSource IWM HU 47109 1/2 slide 1 to 2 of 2 Description Object description Interior view of a camp hut showing prisoners' accommodation and possessions on Christmas Day 1944. Some of the surrounding POWs were said to have shouted at him and Sonntag took his rifle to show he meant his threat. The movie about the Great Escape was very moving as well to me. 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. Stalag 3AUsed for: Stalag 3-A, Stalag iii-A, Stalag III-A, Luckenwalde camp. Canterbury
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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. Waiuku, Auckland
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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. Falkirk
If you have any unwanted As of Oct 2021, there are no relevant items in the Archive. His wartime experience was instrumental in forming the man he became. 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. Herts
E3 Blechhammer was a working party area part of the overall Stalag 8b Complex. 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. D. A. The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. 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. He weighed 6 stone when he came home and was of a nervous disposition for the rest of his life. Today I read the diaries of Private William Law. Robert Kelly East Lancashire Regiment. Photo: Imperial War Museum HU 47157. cement factory, E196 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Opoleonoora. A. Carmichael
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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. St Helens Laws, Ken Whitely
Robert Kelly East Lancashire Regiment. Norton
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. Six of them were self-contained wards, each with space for about 100 patients. A small number of RAF non-commissioned officers who were shot down in the second half of 1941 spent a few weeks there. Albert A. Seibel
All three units held their positions, under constant attack, until ordered to withdraw. [3] In June 1943 it was placed under the administrative control of Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf and was renamed Stalag IV-B/Z. 13 St Saviours Rd
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The Soviet Army reached the camp 17 March 1945. Everyone to whom I spoke gave the same story - the people in the city of Auschwitz, the SS men, concentration camp inmates, foreign workers - everyone said that thousands of people were being gassed and cremated at Auschwitz, and that the inmates who worked with us and who were unable to continue working because of their physical condition and were suddenly missing, had been sent to the gas chambers. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on the 26th of January 1945. Canada, Eric W Earl
In 1941 a separate camp, Stalag VIII-F was set up close by to house the Soviet prisoners. The crematorium where 1500 bodies were burnt was in the south-east part of the camp. Camp commander Czesaw Gborski was later put on trial for his role in running the camp. When I began to research my family history I got Dad's military records from the MOD. It was built in March 1941 on the grounds of a former Czech barracks. Ottaw, On
In harsh winter conditions prisoners were marched, under guard, with poor clothing and rations. Stirlingshire
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Please scroll down for: Types of Camp Clickable List of Camps You can help If you know about someone who was an allied prisoner of war of Germany during the Second World War, 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. The sentry Sonntag continued to order my great uncle to move the barrow and threatened use of his firearm. On 10th May 1940 the Phoney War came to an abrupt end when Germany invaded Belgium and Holland. Newcastle upon Tyne, 17th Jun 1942
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