Welcome.. I am a new member too and know more about the holocaust than anything else about WW2 so have been learning lots here in the past several...
I was in Moscow in 1977 and saw the road work crews of all women (oh wait, I think the men sat on the machinery while the women shoveled the...
I was surprised how many of Michelle's site were already purple on my computer! I am trying to decipher the confusion of terms never mind the...
That is helpful :) Do you have any idea if/how I could find out which regiment, company he was in?
Its clear that post war Europe was no picnic! It is well known that being in any allied zone besides the Soviet one was better. I do not bear any...
Hi William Thanks for the website... a few things in there for me to followup on ...LOL The description of the Ukrainian conscripts may be...
Hi Your information does confirm my understanding - perhaps I did not explain it very clearly... In May 1944 until the fall the "training" seems...
Hi I am puzzled about your comment re the timeline being off. My understanding is that as the war was going poorly for the Germans, they...
Hi This is related to the geneology work I am doing about an Uncle who was taken into training by the Germans in May 1944 as a 13 year old....
Wow! You fellas know so much about this stuff – I am afraid I might ask a stupid question… ;) Here goes anyway.. This is related to the...
My Mother was 14 years when she left with her village in the Ukraine, area Nikolov, on a trek with the retreating German forces. Here is an...
Hi, I "hear" you! The types of camps and lists are confusing and hard to find. Here is a site with a lot of information and includes POW, foreign...
Hi I am a child and grandchild of Displaced Persons of WW2. Typically, my family has described their lives from 1943 to 1948 by two sentences:...
