Krijgsgevangenschap en kampen, 1942 - 1945 > Dagboeken, egodocumenten en verslagen > Dagboek afkomstig van sergeant J.L. Krapels (Kgf.nr 105727) te Stalag XI-a Altengrabow >

Consists of one typed report, two pages, describing life in and the liberation of the Barth concentration camp. The author is unknown. Also includes two letters, written in 2007 by Bernard Grossman, describing his memories of life in Barth (also known as Stalag Luft I), in which he was imprisoned from December 13, 1943 - April 30, 1945, after being shot down from a B-17 airplane over the North Sea ...

Consists of one bound memoir, untitled, by Bill Fraser, a soldier in the British Army who was captured at Anzio in February 1944. In June 1944, he and a group of British POWs, were deported to Auschwitz, where they worked in the IG Farben complex. He describes life in Auschwitz and the group's attempts to sabotage the German war effort, memories of air raids, the comraderie among the soldiers, and ...

Liberated allied prisoners of war in the former Moosburg POW camp Stalag 7a, which housed prisoners from many countries. American pilots cook and serve food outdoors. They eat and smile at the camera. Two men wearing white shirts are shot from a low angle. Pan across former POWs sunning themselves, with barracks in the background. Nice view through barbed wire of former prisoners with rows of white ...

Archives du Commissariat aux Prisonniers et Déportés du Comité français de la Libération nationale On peut à peine qualifier d'archives du Commissariat les quelques dizaines de liasses recueillies par les Archives nationales, ce sont des résidus qui ne peuvent qu'en partie donner une idée de l'activité de cet organisme. Celle-ci a dû être réduite car le Commissariat ne disposait que de peu de moyens. ...

The collection's contents are described in two inventories. The inventories are arranged structurally and by document type. The collection contains documents of concentration camps and POW camps (arranged for the most part in alphabetical order by camp name. regulations, instructions, daily reports on the prisoner population, lists, summaries, journals, personnel files, card files, questionnaires, ...

Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu

Georgius Simon alias Georges Censer was born in Borgerhout, Belgium, on 13 August 1909 as the son of Polish diamond merchant Simche alias Simon Censer and his wife Paulina Mayer who had settled in Belgium in 1903 and 1906 respectively. During the First World War, Georges and his parents fled to Scheveningen in the Netherlands. Georges’ younger brother Samuel Censer was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, ...

The Charles Vogel papers consist of documents, diaries and testimonies, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings acquired by Charles Vogel during his efforts to document and record what occurred to the 350 American soldiers held prisoner at Berga an der Elster. The collection also includes originals and photocopies of trial documents relating to the war crimes trial of Erwin Metz and Ludwig ...

Katalog der Konzentrationslager-Dokumente, die sich bei dem International Tracing Service Allied High Commission for Germany befinden. Hrsg. v. d. Allied High Commission for Germany (HIOG), Bad Arolsen 1951. Catalogue of Concentration Camp Records held by the International Tracing Service, ed. Allied High Commission for Germany, Bad Arolsen 1951. In der Nummernkartei (x.x.x.5) wurden alle Hinweiskarten ...