I stood on the railway platform where Dad would have arrived, and saw the entrance to the camp. It was reopened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939. I now wonder if it was another soldier who was shotin anargument over a cigarette and thatJoe's shooting was indeed over refusing to pushthe wheelbarrow. His wartime experience was instrumental in forming the man he became. E538 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Sosnowice. Downloading audio-visual for non-commercial offline listening or viewing. Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf was a large, German prisoner of war camp. Ronald Arnold
Stalag Luft 5Used for: Stalag Luft 5, Stalag Luft v, Stalag Luft V, Stalag Luft 5. During 1941-42 Stalag 8B was also used for captured RAF non-commissioned officers. Wild Kipp
In harsh winter conditions prisoners were marched, under guard, with poor clothing and rations. In 1944 American and British prisoners arrived.
The lazarett was headed by a German officer with the title Oberst Arzt ("Colonel Doctor"), but the staff was made up entirely of prisoners. The British Medics were going to amputate his leg prior to his capture. 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. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. Reading this information gave me chills and made me so sad to think of all those who gave their lives for our freedom. Albert A. Seibel
Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through Lamsdorf and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. The Hollies
Lamsdorf became a prison camp in 1870 during the Franco Prussian War - and was used as such until the late 1940s. Newcastle, A W Hadley
1st and 4th Battalions East Lancashire Regiment who joined the 42nd Division in 1940 prior to Dunkirk. 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. 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. The camp initially occupied barracks built to house British and French prisoners in World War I. Middlesex, Below are messages we have kindly received regarding POWs in Stalag VIII B, Stalag Luft III, Belaria and Stalag III A. I found your site of the utmost interest & somewhat emotional as the man in the front row centre of the RAF group at Stalag V111B was my father, flight sergeant Frank Firman. Australia, 28th Oct 1943
He ordered Gribben now to push the barrow. Lawrence, a trained engineer, carried out clandestine photography in the Camp between August 1942 - February 1945. 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. Kings Heath
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The base camp at Lamsdorf was renumbered Stalag 344. All the civilian population knew it. Nr. Montreal
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. They included general physicians and surgeons, even a neuro-surgeon, psychiatrist, anesthesiologist, radiologist. Stockport
It was the site of the Great Escape in March 1944. MG Jenkins 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment, Pte. In January 1945 the Lamsdorf camp was evacuated and the RAF prisoners moved to various other camps. (The Rapids)
Also other documents including weapons handling procedure; reports on escapes; arrest warrants; POW statements and correspondence with the Swiss legation in Germany. [1] It was later known as Stalag VIII-B. Cheshire, Norris E. Hunt (Joe)
The New Zealand gave John a full military funeral and he was placed in a military cemetery there, ironically very near Wiuku where his dad was, we have mom here and she will be placed with Dad in Kelowna if winter ever stops. 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. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. Roy A Flood
Yorkshire, 27th Jul 1942
If you would like to use IWM collections materials in a way that is not covered above, require a commercial licence, high-resolution copies, or have manipulation requests, please contact theMedia Sales & Licensing Team. Harry before he died, age 91, began to talk of the horrendous times he endured on the march from France to Poland having to cross the River Danube on many occasions. 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. Six of them were self-contained wards, each with space for about 100 patients. They were ordered to march to the West. Christmas celebrations during theSecond World Waroften had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. Non-Commercial educational use for the purpose of teaching and instruction, including internal training. Sutton Oak
Stalag VIIIB, later renumbered Stalag 344, was located near the small town of Lamsdorf (now called ambinowice) in Silesia, Poland. In 2005 my mother also contacted Alison Robertson from an advert in the local paper. Hunt and Dad had first met while at IX C. Hunt later became a doctor. 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. They included general physicians and surgeons, even a neurosurgeon, psychiatrist, anesthesiologist and radiologist. 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. Some were later released, others sent to Gulags in Siberia. If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. 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. There were less than 200 survivors found. A notorious German Army prisoner of war camp, later renumbered Stalag-344, in Silesia. Our If you have any unwanted Very little is documented on this camp andthis entry has been added for consistency purposes. Basegreen Ave
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. A small number of RAF non-commissioned officers who were shot down in the second half of 1941 spent a few weeks there. It was opened in 1939 to house Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. Although the British POWs received better treatment than the concentration camp prisoners, they only received slightly more food. Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice in Silesia) also known as Kommando E562, became a part of the Auschwitz/Monowitz concentration camp complex. S-0413-0004-02. Polish army personnel being repatriated from POW camps were also processed through Lamsdorf and sometimes held there as prisoners for several months. cement factory, E196 Arbeits kommando Stalag 8b Opoleonoora. Corrections and integrations. She gave us a copy of the Translation of the Deposition of W.J. "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. 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. My father told us that he escaped on a number of occasions, typically from working parties and although he did not achieve a 'home run', he was on the run on VE day having fought in the liberation of Prague alongside Czech partisans. In 2005 my mother also contacted Alison Robertson from an advert in the local paper. Lamsdorf became a prison camp in 1870 during the Franco Prussian War - and was used as such until the late 1940s. 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. During the "Death March" people who were suffering from cold (marched barefoot, without proper winter clothing) soon started to die of exhaustion. Shaw Heath
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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. Today I read the diaries of Private William Law. In the time of successive wars, it provided facilities where prisoners-of-war were detained . Manitoba
Hundreds of thousands passed through those gates - and tens of thousands died there. All three of the 1st Battalions then took up defensive positions to cover the evacuation of the BEF. Welwyn Garden City
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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,
It is estimated that 200,000 prisoners passed through Stalag 3A during the war of whom approximately 5,000 died. 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. 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. Laurier Ave
The Central Prisoner-Of-War Museum In Lambinowice. Johannesburg
After that, British POWs numbers remained approximately 600 for the remainder of the war. Esselmeyer was a big band leader in the states after the war called the 'River City Big Band' in St Louis Missouri. St Kilda
Staffs, 29th Jul 1942
We are now on Facebook. I thoroughly enjoyed scrolling through the web site earlier today. [citation needed]. 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. From December 1943 the camp was extended to take an increasing number of American aircrew. The J.H. Colmore Ave
E. A. Drake
At this same location there had been a prisoner camp during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. In December 1943 the camp was split with RAF prisoners staying at Lamsdorf which was renumbered Stalag 344 and Army prisoners being moved away. Gordon D Pepper
A part of Stalag VIII-B was separated by building new barbed-wire fences, designated Stalag Luft VIII-B. Wolverhampton
In July 1944 Stalag Luft 6 was evacuated with prisoners transferred to either Stalag Luft 4 or Stalag 357 in Fallingbostel in Germany. Shortly after the outbreak of war with Germany the 1st South Lancashires and 1st Loyals crossed to France with, respectively, the 4th and 1st Divisions of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Cpl. Nous avons dvelopp pour cela un moteur de recherche ddi, accessible gratuitement tous via la Bibliothque numrise. Quantity: 1 b&w origi. The crematorium where 1500 bodies were burnt was in the south-east part of the camp. Beverley High Rd
I have used the German names for these places and have put as many Polish or Czech names that I can identify in brackets. London, J E Hall
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I recall one of these broadcasts was by Anthony Eden himself. 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. recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. *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). Shropshire, 24th Aug 1942
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Many of them died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. Stalag 8BUsef for: Stalag VIII-B, Stalag vii-b, Stalag-344, Lamsdorf camp. There are various post cards of a funeral at BAB20 for a man shot for smoking a fag. Prisoners of War. Church (My Pilot)
Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice in Silesia) also known as Kommando E562, became a part of the Auschwitz/Monowitz concentration camp complex. However all food was provided from kitchens operated by army personnel in the camp proper. Birmingham, 25th Jun 1942
Walter Mellor 3rd Btn. Harry before he died, age 91, began to talk of the horrendous times he endured on the march from France to Poland having to cross the River Danube on many occasions. Tamworth
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The camp was liberated by the Red Army on the 26th of January 1945. Buddle Street
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