Hi All, is there any way of tracing people that were in POW camps at the end of the war, either as POWs or Displaced Persons? Thanks
I seem to remember a record set fairly recently released on one of the major genealogical sites that had a list of persons released by the British in Europe at the end of WW2 or similar. By it's title it seemed to be for displaced civilians etc, but actually included British pows that had been held in Germany. Of course despite searching on FMP & ancestry today I can't now find it !
Hi Vitello... Yes, somebody from the North Hill (Northill) camp at Laurencekirk,Aberdeenshire circa 1945 First name Edmund, may be Polish. Do a displaced person most likely Regards Alan
This is the TNA list for all Naturalisation Certificates issued to someone with the name Edmund between 1925 and 1949, he may or may not be one of them - he may have gone home - but perhaps something in the lists will start a bell ringing Search results: naturalisation certificate Edmund | The National Archives TD Several are resident in Scotlands shires according to the basic details
I think these were the ancestry record sets I had in mind: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/ This collection consists of passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61758/ This collection consists of foreigners and German persecutees in Germany between 1939-1947 who were persecuted by public institutions, social securities and companies. The records may also include information on those who died, including burial information. The documents were assembled according to the Zones of Occupation - American, British, French and Soviet - by the Allied forces within Germany. Areas outside Germany were also recorded.
