Post by connie on Oct 17, 2021 20:05:13 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
Gleina
Carl Wouters mentioned: "Men from IV-B were put to work in a number of 'Arbeitskommandos' or work details/camps in the vincinity of the Stalag. This meant that they were usually not billeted in the camp barracks themselves, but in barns or other facilities near their work site.
Location: Ewell Black noted that this, his second POW location, was 3 Km from Zeitz in in the small farming community of Gleina
Black, Ewell Jr (Rev. ) 422-A POW XII A, IV B, work camp at Gleina www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20XII-A%20Limburg/Ewell%20Black/Ewell%20Black.htm
Surrendered noon Dec. 18; He writes:" We arrived at Stalag XII—A in Limburg about dark on December 30th or 31st. Housing was in large medical tents which had been captured. We slept on the ground with no heat in the tents (we had no heat in any of the various places which we were housed during the march). The following night we received “grass soup”, which was our first meal since Koblenz. New Year’s of 1944 was spent at XII—A and several days following. We were loaded in box cars for turned out to be a five or six day ride to Stalag IVB at Muhlberg."
His stay in Muhlberg was followed by time at a work camp 3 Km from Zeitz in in the small farming community of Gleina (arriving 3rd wk of January) With about 120 men he was above a home and barn in what had been a pre-war night club. They worked daily in cleaning a bombed out factory. He was liberated Friday April 13.
video interview: memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.50158/
Notes on this discussion Board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5026/thread
Unnamed Soldier 423/B POW IV-B. Glena work camp 06thdivision.proboards.com/post/3816/thread
Carl Wouter noted: I know one 423/B veteran who was in Stalag IV-B and later part of an 'Arbeitskommando' in a benzene plant. They were housed in a barn in the town of Gleina." 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3816/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
Gleina
Carl Wouters mentioned: "Men from IV-B were put to work in a number of 'Arbeitskommandos' or work details/camps in the vincinity of the Stalag. This meant that they were usually not billeted in the camp barracks themselves, but in barns or other facilities near their work site.
Location: Ewell Black noted that this, his second POW location, was 3 Km from Zeitz in in the small farming community of Gleina
Black, Ewell Jr (Rev. ) 422-A POW XII A, IV B, work camp at Gleina www.indianamilitary.org/German%20PW%20Camps/Prisoner%20of%20War/PW%20Camps/Stalag%20XII-A%20Limburg/Ewell%20Black/Ewell%20Black.htm
Surrendered noon Dec. 18; He writes:" We arrived at Stalag XII—A in Limburg about dark on December 30th or 31st. Housing was in large medical tents which had been captured. We slept on the ground with no heat in the tents (we had no heat in any of the various places which we were housed during the march). The following night we received “grass soup”, which was our first meal since Koblenz. New Year’s of 1944 was spent at XII—A and several days following. We were loaded in box cars for turned out to be a five or six day ride to Stalag IVB at Muhlberg."
His stay in Muhlberg was followed by time at a work camp 3 Km from Zeitz in in the small farming community of Gleina (arriving 3rd wk of January) With about 120 men he was above a home and barn in what had been a pre-war night club. They worked daily in cleaning a bombed out factory. He was liberated Friday April 13.
video interview: memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.50158/
Notes on this discussion Board: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5026/thread
Unnamed Soldier 423/B POW IV-B. Glena work camp 06thdivision.proboards.com/post/3816/thread
Carl Wouter noted: I know one 423/B veteran who was in Stalag IV-B and later part of an 'Arbeitskommando' in a benzene plant. They were housed in a barn in the town of Gleina." 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/3816/thread