lebensborn

[vailron]

it was in the paper this last wweekend about a reunion in germany, of children bnorn in some of the lebensborn units apparently it is their first reunio, as up until now it has been a very taboo subject in germany

[laufer]

One of the regions that suffered most during Nazi occupation of Poland was area around town of Zamosc (renamed by Germans Himmlerstadt). Zamosc became the place of executions and a transit point for Jewish people sent to death camp in Belzec, as well as the transit point for Poles expelled from Wielkopolska (Greater Poland). In 1942 Zamosc region was chosen for a great ethnic laboratory as a planned settlement for Transilvanian Germans. Although, the plan did not finalize and the planned number of Germans did not come to live there, the expulsion of Poles and other nationalities proceeded.
The deportations took place from the end of 1942 to 1943. Altogether 110,000 people including 30,000 children from Zamosc, Bilgoraj, Tomaszow and Hrubieszow districts were deported. In summer 1943 - after a racial selection - about 4,5 thousands of children from 2 to 11 years old were sent for germanization in Germany. The remaining children were transported with or without their parents to the concentration camps, some of them were gased, others were taken to special villages. The fate of many children from region of Zamosc is unknown.