Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a picture postcard postmarked March 29, 1941, from a civilian work camp at Beddingen, which appears to be a camp of the Hermann Goeringwerke, addressed to Bohemia. The postmark is from Wolfenbuettel, and there is a Beddingen Uber Wolfenbuettel cachet. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of two postcards from civilian work camps in the Berlin area. The first is from a camp in the Lichterfelde area of Berlin dated November 18, 1944. The second is from a camp, Waldhaus, in the Grunewald area of Berlin postmarked November 14, 1944, and addressed to Kielce, Poland. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Berlin" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a cover from an inmate at the Gemeinschaftslager Feierabend Rheda in Bielefeld. It appears that these laborers worked for the Durkopp Company, a manufacturer of sewing machines and other industrial products. The cover is addressed to France and is postmarked August 15, 1944. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Bielefeld" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard postmarked January 1, 1943, from an inmate at a work camp in Calbe (Saale), a town near Magdeburg. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Calbe (Saale)" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of a postcard postmarked November 12, 1941, from the civilian workers camp "FIMAG" at Finsterwalde. The card is addressed to Krakau and bears the cachet of the camp indicating that it was a "Polenlager", i.e its inmates were primarily Polish. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Finsterwalde" in the left frame to return.
Glashuette was the site of a work camp run by the D.A.F. (Deutsche Arbeitsfront), the German Labor Front. Below is a thumbnail of a cover postmarked July 13, 1944, to a worker at this camp. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Glashuette" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of a postcard dated February 2, 1945, from the Lager "Turmhaus" at Grunhain addressed to a lager in Berlin. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Grunhain" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a picture postcard postmarked September 27, 1944, from an inmate at the Gemeinschaftslager Harzgerode addressed to Moravia. Harzgerode is located between Leipzig and Nordhausen. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a cover postmarked April 1, 1944, from an inmate at Gemeinschaftslager Wehdenweg addressed to Bohemia. Kiel was the site of many labor camps. This camp consisted of about 900 persons. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Cover" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of a postcard dated April 12, 1943, from a French national at a civiian work camp in Konigsberg to Toulouse, France. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Konigsberg" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of a postcard dated January 10, 1945, from a labor camp at Kornwestheim engaged in the making of wire (Drahtlager). The card is addressed to Krakow in liberated Poland. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Kornwestheim" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a registered cover from Kocmyrzom, near Krakau to a worker at No. 18 of the Hermann Goeringwerke in Lebenstedt, near Braunschweig. The cover is postmarked Krakau, May 26, 1940. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Lebenstedt" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of three postcards from camps in the Leipzig area. The first is a postcard (postmarked November 29, 1944) was sent from the civilian worker camp "Schwatzenberg" in Leipzig to Tobrwinow, Poland. The second is a postcard dated April 29, 1941, from the forced labor camp connected with the Hugo Schneider Plant at Leipzig. The card bears the cachet of the camp indicating that it was a "Polenlager", i.e its inmates were primarily Polish. The third is a postcard postmarked December 28,1944, from an inmate at the Gemeinschaftslager Schwarzer Weg. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Leipzig" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard written by a Ostarbeiter (worker from the East) housed at I.G. Gemeinschaftslager III in Ludwigshafen, a center of German war industry in the lower Rhine region. These laborers worked for I.G. Farben whose exploitation of foreign forced labor (and slave labor contracted for from concentration camps) was second only to Krupp. The postcard bears a pre-printed return label with house and room number spaces. It is postmarked Ludwigshafen, April, 1942, and is addressed to a factory worker in Grenoble, France. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Ludwigshafen" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard from an inmate at Gemeinschaftslager Neerstedt near Wildeshausen postmarked Wildeshausen, January 3, 1945, addressed to the Polish Red Cross in Krakau. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Neerstedt" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of two items. The first is a postcard from Tomashow Mazowiecki, Poland, postmarked April 19, 1943, to a Polish worker at a camp in Neheim-Huesten (near Dortmund). This camp was associated with the manufacturing firm of Broekelmann, Jaeger & Busse. The second item is a cover from a French worker at a camp in Neheim-Huesten associated with the Firm, T. Hillesheim. The cover is addressed to Cherbourg and postmarked Neheim-Huesten September 20, 1943. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Neheim-Huesten" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of a postcard from "Lager Eiche" located at Neukirchen. The cancellation date appears to be February 5, 1944. This was the sire of a civilian work camp associated with Bergwerks AG. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Neukirchen" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of two covers from a worker at the Telegraphentrup T.S. Nitsch camp in Osterode am Harz. Both covers are addressed to the same person in Prague. The first is postmarked March 11, 1942, and the second (registered) is postmarked August 24, 1942.
Below are thumbnails of a postcard from a forced labor camp at Paderborn to Berlin. This camp appears to have been a training center for work on the railroads. The card is postmarked Bad Lippspringe which is a town near Paderborn. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Paderborn" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of two postcards pertaining to the camps at Postelberg. The first is a postcard from a camp at Postelberg to Theresienstadt dated March 14, 1945. The card bears a Theresienstadt receiving cachet dated March 22, 1945. The second is a postcard from Brunn to a labor camp at Postelberg with a Brunn postmark dated March 6, 1945. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postelberg" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a cover from a French inmate at the Gemeinschaftslager Rathenow/ Postschlieβfach 259 located in Rathenow. The cover is postmarked March 31, 1944, and is addessed to Paris. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Rathenow" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of a postcard postmarked (Frankfurt) December 29, 1944, from the civilian worker camp at Reppen to Krakau. The card arrived in Krakau after liberation and bears the rubber stamp of the liberation council. The card inquires as to relatives. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Reppen" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of a postcard postmarked August 21, 1944, from the labor camp at Ritschenwalde to Posen. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Ritschenwalde" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard from an inmate at Lager Ida located in Waldenburg (now part of Poland), postmarked January 11, 1945, addressed to the Polish Red Cross offices in Krakau. This appearsd to have been a camp for Polish laborers. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Waldenburg" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard postmarked August 11, 1944, from an inmate at Gemeinschaftsheim Niedergirrmes/ Wetzlar addressed to Brussels. Niedergirmes was a suburb of Wetzler, which is a city north of Frankfurt. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Wetzlar" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard from an inmate at Gemeinschaftslager I located in Wolfen (Kreis Bitterfeld), a town north of Leipzig, postmarked December 29, 1944, addressed to the Polish Red Cross offices in Krakau. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Wolfen" in the left frame to return.
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