Hey everyone, New to the forum. Recently I stumbled across this record that I believe to be a liberation questionnaire. The man is a relative of mine and the family didn't know much about his service. He was captured in '42 and at the end of the war he didn't return. The family accepted this and carried on with their lives until on VE Day in '46 he turned up at their doorstep! Now the introduction is out of the way. I would like to have anyones help with some questions. I can see that he was held in a number of different camps one of those being blechhammer. Any details that anyone can tell me about what he would have done at the camps and Anything on the camps would be greatly appreciated. I have looked on the National archives. I think it says that his record includes a photo? What does this mean? A photo of him or of some sort of record?. This may be alot. TIA
Good morning RedReptile556 and welcome to the forum, First of all, the liberation report. There should be two more pages downloadable from ancestry.co.uk. Secondly, there is plenty of information, including photographs, about Campo PG 65 on this forum: Campo 65 Gravina Report. There are also several Youtube videos, one made in September 2022, when a big three-day event at which I was a guest speaker was held at the camp. Unfortunately they are in Italian, but at least you can see the area covered by the camp and the few remaining buildings. Next, for Campo PG 53 Macerata, to which your relative was sent in July '43, there is also a lot of information on the internet, including my video on Youtube. I am currently involved in trying to organise and event at Macerata in September of this year. For Blechhammer I recommend this site, for which I was the translator. Finally, the National Archives item will be his German Record Card, held in File 416. The photo would have been taken when he was in Stalag 344. TNA have made a mistake with the Camp number, which they have recorded as 844. I have informed them of the error. Best wishes, Vitellino (Janet Kinrade Dethick)
