Post by connie on Jan 6, 2015 9:33:35 GMT -5
OVERVIEW of CAMPS that Held Members of the 106th 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/752/thread
MAP of GERMAN POW CAMPS: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4961/thread
FINDING a POW's WORK CAMP: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
Stalag III-B Fuerstenberg/Oder
While there is not Wikipedia article available on this particular camp, it is included on the list of camps en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_POW_camps#List_of_Camps_by_Military_District
BOOK NOTE: Life Behind Barbed Wire 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=books&action=display&thread=389
The Secret World War II Photographs of Angelo Spinelli, by Angelo M. Spinelli, with Lewis H. Carlson
This book was not written by someone from the 106th but it was written by a POW who spent time in Stalags IIIA & III B. Sergeant Angelo Spinelli was captured in North Africa by the Germans on Valentine's Day, 1943, and shipped to Stalag IIIB near Furstenburg, Germany. Using cigarettes obtained from the Red Cross, Spinelli bribed a camp guard to procure a Voitlander camera and film. Life behind Barbed Wire features photographs Spinelli took during his time in prison camp. Of the more than one thousand photographs Spinelli risked his life to take, more than one hundred appear in this book. The remarkable photographs, enhanced by Lewis H. Carlson's explanatory text, feature prisoners trading with the guards' combating ticks, lice, and other vermin, preparing meager rations on ingenious cooking contraptions, fighting off boredom by playing baseball, soccer, and football, putting on musical and dramatic theatre presentations, and worshiping in a chapel the prisoners themselves built. These snapshots give us a window on camp life, where catastrophe was normal and normalcy was often catastrophic. In addition, there are dramatic shots of liberation from Stalag IIIA, where Spinelli and some thirty-eight thousand other Allied prisoners had been moved during the final months of the war.
Kenneth Grant's son noted: My copy of Life Behind Barbed Wire arrived and I went through the pictures and text comparing it with my father's POW diary and he could have been writing the captions for many of the pictures. The things he talked about in his diary were hard to make a mental picture of until you see it in a photo...
Finding a POW's Work Camp: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
106th CONNECTIONS:
List of 423 Infantry Regiment POW's: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/64%20-%20423rd%20roster/64.htm
Sidebar List of POW Camps & some names of POW's there www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
Sidebar List of Diaries, Obits, & Articles, etc. alphabetically on the Indiana Military Site: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm
Bradley, Fay, Sgt. 423 POW Stalags IVB,III B, III A 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=looking&action=display&thread=422
Granddaughter notes he was imprisioned as IVB Muhlberg, IIIB Furstenberg, IIIA Luckenwalde and was part of the Brat March from Furstenberg to Luckenwalde.. She is looking for others who may have known her grandfather.
Brutus, Glen J. PFC 1st BN HQ Co 423rd POW IVB, IIIA, IIIB, unknown camp
list of POW Camps found under his name in Roster: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/RosterZOHO.htm
notes and link 79 minute audio interview: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4827/thread
Ferguson, Richard Sgt. T/4 POW Stalag IV-B, III-B, III-A mentions this camp as the second stop on his POW journey (first was Stalag IV-B and third was Stalag III-A). Here he was issued some clothing and toiletry articles. www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-A%20Luckenwalde/Richard%20Ferguson/Richard%20Ferguson.htm IV-B was the first stop on his POW journey..A.Multiple links on this board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/1032/ferguson-richard-590th-hq
Fishburn, John 423rd POW Stalags Stalag V-A & III-B www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-B%20Furstenberg/John%20Fishburn/FishburnJohn-423.html
gives an extensive personal and division history and much detail of his POW journey that took him to both Stalag V-A & III-B after 3 1/2 months imprisonment he was moved again by RR car that was hit in American air attack. Marched from that point, he was liberated en route by 2nd Armored Division
Grant, Kenneth, S/Sgt 422 Hq 3rd BN HQ POW Stalag IVB, III-B, IIIA Grant was in an anti-tank platoon within HQ Co of the 3rd Bn of the 422nd.
BIO & DIARY: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Diaries/Stalag%20IV-B%20Mulberg/Grant-Kenneth-422HQ-4B-3B-3A/Grant-Krnneth-422HQ-4B-3B-3A.pdf
He was in a forward position, captured on 12-19-44. He arrived at Stalag IV-B Muhlberg on Dec. 27. Here are notes from his diary on his January 6, 1945 arrival at Stalag III-B:
Today sure has been a miserable one. We had to be searched again before we left and it took a long time. We were marched to a railroad and loaded into box cars. We had a small stove in it, but hardly any fuel. We rode all day and most of the night. We finally got to our new camp which is Stalag 3-B (Furstenberg). We had to be searched again and were then issued two old blankets apiece and put in a barracks. It sure was cold.
Grant's son converses with Bradley's granddaughter: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/1397/thread
Frank Grant notes: My father was captured on 12-19-44 and was liberated on 5-5-45. He was a Staff Sgt. and had a dog tag from Stalag IV-B. 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/753/thread
More collected info on Grant: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5050/thread
Lichtenfield, Seymour 422nd I POW Stalag IV-B, IIIA & III-B www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-B%20Furstenberg/Seymour%20Lichtenfeld/Lichtenfeld-Seymour.pdf
Account given by this man from 3rd Squad, 3rd Platoon of 422 I tells of his time with the 106th and includes his POW experience at Stalag IV-B, III-A and III B. He was liberated on April 22, 1945
More inks to info on Sy Lichtenfeld on this discussion board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/1033/lichtenfield-seymour-422nd
Overview of Camps that Held Members of the 106th 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/752/thread
MAP of GERMAN POW CAMPS: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4961/thread
FINDING a POW's WORK CAMP: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
Stalag III-B Fuerstenberg/Oder
While there is not Wikipedia article available on this particular camp, it is included on the list of camps en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_POW_camps#List_of_Camps_by_Military_District
BOOK NOTE: Life Behind Barbed Wire 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=books&action=display&thread=389
The Secret World War II Photographs of Angelo Spinelli, by Angelo M. Spinelli, with Lewis H. Carlson
This book was not written by someone from the 106th but it was written by a POW who spent time in Stalags IIIA & III B. Sergeant Angelo Spinelli was captured in North Africa by the Germans on Valentine's Day, 1943, and shipped to Stalag IIIB near Furstenburg, Germany. Using cigarettes obtained from the Red Cross, Spinelli bribed a camp guard to procure a Voitlander camera and film. Life behind Barbed Wire features photographs Spinelli took during his time in prison camp. Of the more than one thousand photographs Spinelli risked his life to take, more than one hundred appear in this book. The remarkable photographs, enhanced by Lewis H. Carlson's explanatory text, feature prisoners trading with the guards' combating ticks, lice, and other vermin, preparing meager rations on ingenious cooking contraptions, fighting off boredom by playing baseball, soccer, and football, putting on musical and dramatic theatre presentations, and worshiping in a chapel the prisoners themselves built. These snapshots give us a window on camp life, where catastrophe was normal and normalcy was often catastrophic. In addition, there are dramatic shots of liberation from Stalag IIIA, where Spinelli and some thirty-eight thousand other Allied prisoners had been moved during the final months of the war.
Kenneth Grant's son noted: My copy of Life Behind Barbed Wire arrived and I went through the pictures and text comparing it with my father's POW diary and he could have been writing the captions for many of the pictures. The things he talked about in his diary were hard to make a mental picture of until you see it in a photo...
Finding a POW's Work Camp: jrwentz attached two helpful posts near the bottom of the following thread: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4942/thread
106th CONNECTIONS:
List of 423 Infantry Regiment POW's: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/REFERENCES/64%20-%20423rd%20roster/64.htm
Sidebar List of POW Camps & some names of POW's there www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/SoThinkMenu/GermanPW-START.htm
Sidebar List of Diaries, Obits, & Articles, etc. alphabetically on the Indiana Military Site: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm
Bradley, Fay, Sgt. 423 POW Stalags IVB,III B, III A 106thdivision.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=looking&action=display&thread=422
Granddaughter notes he was imprisioned as IVB Muhlberg, IIIB Furstenberg, IIIA Luckenwalde and was part of the Brat March from Furstenberg to Luckenwalde.. She is looking for others who may have known her grandfather.
Brutus, Glen J. PFC 1st BN HQ Co 423rd POW IVB, IIIA, IIIB, unknown camp
list of POW Camps found under his name in Roster: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Rosters/RosterZOHO.htm
notes and link 79 minute audio interview: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/4827/thread
Ferguson, Richard Sgt. T/4 POW Stalag IV-B, III-B, III-A mentions this camp as the second stop on his POW journey (first was Stalag IV-B and third was Stalag III-A). Here he was issued some clothing and toiletry articles. www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-A%20Luckenwalde/Richard%20Ferguson/Richard%20Ferguson.htm IV-B was the first stop on his POW journey..A.Multiple links on this board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/1032/ferguson-richard-590th-hq
Fishburn, John 423rd POW Stalags Stalag V-A & III-B www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-B%20Furstenberg/John%20Fishburn/FishburnJohn-423.html
gives an extensive personal and division history and much detail of his POW journey that took him to both Stalag V-A & III-B after 3 1/2 months imprisonment he was moved again by RR car that was hit in American air attack. Marched from that point, he was liberated en route by 2nd Armored Division
Grant, Kenneth, S/Sgt 422 Hq 3rd BN HQ POW Stalag IVB, III-B, IIIA Grant was in an anti-tank platoon within HQ Co of the 3rd Bn of the 422nd.
BIO & DIARY: www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/Diaries/Stalag%20IV-B%20Mulberg/Grant-Kenneth-422HQ-4B-3B-3A/Grant-Krnneth-422HQ-4B-3B-3A.pdf
He was in a forward position, captured on 12-19-44. He arrived at Stalag IV-B Muhlberg on Dec. 27. Here are notes from his diary on his January 6, 1945 arrival at Stalag III-B:
Today sure has been a miserable one. We had to be searched again before we left and it took a long time. We were marched to a railroad and loaded into box cars. We had a small stove in it, but hardly any fuel. We rode all day and most of the night. We finally got to our new camp which is Stalag 3-B (Furstenberg). We had to be searched again and were then issued two old blankets apiece and put in a barracks. It sure was cold.
Grant's son converses with Bradley's granddaughter: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/1397/thread
Frank Grant notes: My father was captured on 12-19-44 and was liberated on 5-5-45. He was a Staff Sgt. and had a dog tag from Stalag IV-B. 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/753/thread
More collected info on Grant: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5050/thread
Lichtenfield, Seymour 422nd I POW Stalag IV-B, IIIA & III-B www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20III-B%20Furstenberg/Seymour%20Lichtenfeld/Lichtenfeld-Seymour.pdf
Account given by this man from 3rd Squad, 3rd Platoon of 422 I tells of his time with the 106th and includes his POW experience at Stalag IV-B, III-A and III B. He was liberated on April 22, 1945
More inks to info on Sy Lichtenfeld on this discussion board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/thread/1033/lichtenfield-seymour-422nd
Overview of Camps that Held Members of the 106th 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/752/thread