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Stalag 7B Prisoner of War Camp
Arbeitskommando E768 was a work camp of Stalag 7b and was located at at Kumau.
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Want to know more about Stalag 7B Prisoner of War Camp? There are:294 items tagged Stalag 7B Prisoner of War Camp available in our Library
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Edward Lesniewski My uncle, Edward Lesniewski, was captured in Anzio, Italy in February, 1944 and transferred to Stalag 7B. He arrived in Mooseburg, Germany on May 20, 1944 then to Ausburg and Rain, Germany and was finally sent to LeHavre, France before returning home on June 11, 1945. He would not share any memories with his family. He said it was bad enough living it at the time he did not want to discuss his experiences ever again.
Any information or stories you may have from these places during this time will be most appreciated.
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Earnest Cooper Leicestershire Regiment My late father; Earnest Cooper, 4868237, Leicestershire Regt was captured in North Africa after the Battle of Kasserine (1943) and was first imprisoned in PG66 at Capua, then transferred to Stalag XVIIB following the Italian armistice.
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Cyril Thomas "Tommy" Curtis I am trying to find out about my grandfather Cyril Thomas Curtis (known as Tommy). He was captured at Crete in 1941 and sent to Stalag 7b at Memmingen, Germany. I do not know his number or Regiment. Is there any one who can help me?
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Joseph M "Fuzzy" Wise I was a young kid working for Mr. Wise, known locally as "Fuzzy", as a commercial crabber near the Chesapeake Bay for several summers and I thought of him as a grandfather. He was a lot of fun, but one day he told me of his experience as a POW. I'm paraphrasing what he told me over 20 years ago. He died in 1988.
He was captured at Normandy, put on a train and transported to Germany, where he lost 65 pounds during the trip. He was placed in a POW camp in Memmingen, Bavaria, where he was forced to work in a cheese factory. When he was told the cheese was being sent to the front to feed the Nazis, he gathered mouse droppings and threw them in the bin. He claimed that he shivered all night the during the first cold snap and that a kind German guard gave him a long winter coat that he slept in every night. He said that he would have died without it. He made friends with several German civilian workers in the factory and even continued to exchange Christmas Cards into the 1970s. He remembers being liberated and the POWs were allowed to enter a cave that was apparently full of valuables put there by the townspeople to prevent looting. The POWs were allowed to take "anything they could carry". Fuzzy remembered carrying several pairs of binoculars and cameras around his neck, with fine shotguns under each arm. Understandably, he became inebriated during his first night of freedom and passed out, only to find that all of his new valuables were stolen from him. Hopefully, some of the items made their way back to their original owners.
This was all that he told me. I would love to know if anyone remembered this gregarious, fun-loving fellow named "Fuzzy" from Maryland.
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Eugeniusz Hull My father Eugeniusz Hull from Lwow in Poland (now in Ukraine) recently died and I found a picture of him with Stalag V11B below him. Does anyone know him or anything about his early life?
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Ilia Wakaluk My dad, Ilia Wakaluk was Ukrainian, fighting for the Russians and ended up in Memmingen camp in Germany. He was born in July 1920.
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Drv. Edward Webster Royal Signals Edward Webster was captured by the Italians in Mechili, Libya on 8th of April 1941. He was first interned at Capua POW camp (date unknown), then at the Gruppignano POW Camp on 24th of July 1941, and then transferred to C.C.N. 53 P.M. 3300 Camp on 2nd of September 1943. Finally, he was transferred to Stalag VIIB in Germany.
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PFC. Wallace Bruce "Allport" Bruce 180th Infantry Regiment 45th Infantry Division My Dad, Wallace Bruce never talked about the war but spent his life after the war staring at the floor and mostly being in a bad mood. He died in 1970 at the age of 52.
In the war, he was a medic in a front line infantry unit. In February 1945, his unit was attacked while retreating and he was shot 4 times in the lower stomach while lying in a foxhole. When a young German soldier went to shoot him again, he put his leg up for protection and the shot tore most of his thigh muscle away. Being captured, he spent the last 3 months of the war in a POW camp Stalag 7b in Moosburg, Bavaria. The camp was liberated in April 1945.
After he died, I had to identify his body and saw that his thigh had never healed completely, there was still a scab on the wound. I don’t know why that's never left my thoughts. It must have bothered him, but he never complained, at least not to me or my 6 brothers and 3 sisters. Before he died, I was the oldest at home and I had just returned from Vietnam 3 months earlier, I tried to talk with him about being in the war, thinking that since I was just back from my war we would have something in common. But he never spoke about his time in hell.
So I can just tell what I know about his war experience, his 2 Purple Hearts and other medals, including the POW medal. His military records have gotten lost in the Army's central record repository in St. Louis.
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PFC. John Hutton Rhodenizer 157th Infantry Regiment According to the the national archives maintained by the US Government, John Rhodenizer was held in Stalag 7B at Memmingen in Bavaria. He was liberated from the camp in 1945.
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PFC. Charles Gate Dawes Charles Dawes served with either the US 5th Infantry Division or the 8th Infantry Division, we're not sure which. It appears he was captured in December 1944 and held as a POW in Stalag 7B.
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Pvt. Walter W. Pilon Coy. I, 174th Infantry Regiment 27th Infantry Division Walter Pilon was a POW in Stalag 7B in Memmingen, Bavaria. By a strange coincidence, Memmingen is located about 30 kilometers from the village where our great-great-grandfather was born and raised (in addition to about 300 years of previous ancestors). The town today has only about 2,000 people and almost all of them have a link, one way or another, to each other and to our families.
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Capt Alfred Gilbert "Freddie" George 1/6th Battalion East Surrey Regiment My father, Alfred George, was taken POW during the the Cassino campaign, and held at Stalag VIIB and according to records also at Oflag 79. I have very little information about his time as a POW apart from the fact that I knew he spoke fluent German, which was of great benefit to him during his time as a POW.
He spoke very little about the war and I only have his diary and some letters to my mother as reference. He was in Tunisia with the 1/6th Battalion and following the German surrender went on to Italy and was in the battle for Monte Cassino. I think that he was captured at Monte Camino possibly in February 1944 and then transferred to Stalag VIIB. I have only just found a record of him being at Oflag 79. His POW number was 128885. I would be grateful for any feedback although there will be few still alive from that time now.
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Pvt. Mario "Marty" DelArciprete My stepfather, Mario DelArciprete was captured while on a scouting expedition. He was taken to Stalag 7B, in Memingen, Bavaria. I don't know all of the details, but he had had a ruptured appendix and was a a hospital at the time of liberation. He spoke of being hungry all the time. He said the Russian soldiers were treated the worst, only being fed a couple of times a week. Marty told the story of being pulled in a wagon to get to hospital after appendix burst. At the hospital, he saw German soldiers in rough condition and didn't think he would make it out alive. He did. On the journey back to the camp, the soldier pulling the wagon was shot and killed, just before they arrived. Marty weighed 87 pounds when liberated, he was 6 feet tall.
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Pte. Ernest R. Mathieu Ernest Mathieu served with the US Army in WW2. He was captured in Italy in 1944 and held prisoner of war in Memmingen Stalag 7B, through to 19th of May 1945.
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Pvt William "Snub" Russo Royal Scots My Uncle William was a Prisoner of War at Stalag 7B Memmingen Bavaria 48-10. This was well before I was born, but I remember that he could barely move his arm. That arm had scars on it that were dug into his skin. My parents would never speak of it. My uncle died in 1962 from alcohol related illness. Does anyone remember him? I think his nickname was Snub.
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Edward Lesniewski My uncle, Edward Lesniewski, was captured in Anzio, Italy in February, 1944 and transferred to Stalag 7B. He arrived in Mooseburg, Germany on May 20, 1944 then to Ausburg and Rain, Germany and was finally sent to LeHavre, France before returning home on June 11, 1945. He would not share any memories with his family. He said it was bad enough living it at the time he did not want to discuss his experiences ever again.
Any information or stories you may have from these places during this time will be most appreciated.
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Earnest Cooper Leicestershire Regiment My late father; Earnest Cooper, 4868237, Leicestershire Regt was captured in North Africa after the Battle of Kasserine (1943) and was first imprisoned in PG66 at Capua, then transferred to Stalag XVIIB following the Italian armistice.
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Cyril Thomas "Tommy" Curtis I am trying to find out about my grandfather Cyril Thomas Curtis (known as Tommy). He was captured at Crete in 1941 and sent to Stalag 7b at Memmingen, Germany. I do not know his number or Regiment. Is there any one who can help me?
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Joseph M "Fuzzy" Wise I was a young kid working for Mr. Wise, known locally as "Fuzzy", as a commercial crabber near the Chesapeake Bay for several summers and I thought of him as a grandfather. He was a lot of fun, but one day he told me of his experience as a POW. I'm paraphrasing what he told me over 20 years ago. He died in 1988.
He was captured at Normandy, put on a train and transported to Germany, where he lost 65 pounds during the trip. He was placed in a POW camp in Memmingen, Bavaria, where he was forced to work in a cheese factory. When he was told the cheese was being sent to the front to feed the Nazis, he gathered mouse droppings and threw them in the bin. He claimed that he shivered all night the during the first cold snap and that a kind German guard gave him a long winter coat that he slept in every night. He said that he would have died without it. He made friends with several German civilian workers in the factory and even continued to exchange Christmas Cards into the 1970s. He remembers being liberated and the POWs were allowed to enter a cave that was apparently full of valuables put there by the townspeople to prevent looting. The POWs were allowed to take "anything they could carry". Fuzzy remembered carrying several pairs of binoculars and cameras around his neck, with fine shotguns under each arm. Understandably, he became inebriated during his first night of freedom and passed out, only to find that all of his new valuables were stolen from him. Hopefully, some of the items made their way back to their original owners.
This was all that he told me. I would love to know if anyone remembered this gregarious, fun-loving fellow named "Fuzzy" from Maryland.
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Eugeniusz Hull My father Eugeniusz Hull from Lwow in Poland (now in Ukraine) recently died and I found a picture of him with Stalag V11B below him. Does anyone know him or anything about his early life?
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Ilia Wakaluk My dad, Ilia Wakaluk was Ukrainian, fighting for the Russians and ended up in Memmingen camp in Germany. He was born in July 1920.
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Drv. Edward Webster Royal Signals Edward Webster was captured by the Italians in Mechili, Libya on 8th of April 1941. He was first interned at Capua POW camp (date unknown), then at the Gruppignano POW Camp on 24th of July 1941, and then transferred to C.C.N. 53 P.M. 3300 Camp on 2nd of September 1943. Finally, he was transferred to Stalag VIIB in Germany.
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PFC. Wallace Bruce "Allport" Bruce 180th Infantry Regiment 45th Infantry Division My Dad, Wallace Bruce never talked about the war but spent his life after the war staring at the floor and mostly being in a bad mood. He died in 1970 at the age of 52.
In the war, he was a medic in a front line infantry unit. In February 1945, his unit was attacked while retreating and he was shot 4 times in the lower stomach while lying in a foxhole. When a young German soldier went to shoot him again, he put his leg up for protection and the shot tore most of his thigh muscle away. Being captured, he spent the last 3 months of the war in a POW camp Stalag 7b in Moosburg, Bavaria. The camp was liberated in April 1945.
After he died, I had to identify his body and saw that his thigh had never healed completely, there was still a scab on the wound. I don’t know why that's never left my thoughts. It must have bothered him, but he never complained, at least not to me or my 6 brothers and 3 sisters. Before he died, I was the oldest at home and I had just returned from Vietnam 3 months earlier, I tried to talk with him about being in the war, thinking that since I was just back from my war we would have something in common. But he never spoke about his time in hell.
So I can just tell what I know about his war experience, his 2 Purple Hearts and other medals, including the POW medal. His military records have gotten lost in the Army's central record repository in St. Louis.
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PFC. John Hutton Rhodenizer 157th Infantry Regiment According to the the national archives maintained by the US Government, John Rhodenizer was held in Stalag 7B at Memmingen in Bavaria. He was liberated from the camp in 1945.
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PFC. Charles Gate Dawes Charles Dawes served with either the US 5th Infantry Division or the 8th Infantry Division, we're not sure which. It appears he was captured in December 1944 and held as a POW in Stalag 7B.
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Pvt. Walter W. Pilon Coy. I, 174th Infantry Regiment 27th Infantry Division Walter Pilon was a POW in Stalag 7B in Memmingen, Bavaria. By a strange coincidence, Memmingen is located about 30 kilometers from the village where our great-great-grandfather was born and raised (in addition to about 300 years of previous ancestors). The town today has only about 2,000 people and almost all of them have a link, one way or another, to each other and to our families.
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Capt Alfred Gilbert "Freddie" George 1/6th Battalion East Surrey Regiment My father, Alfred George, was taken POW during the the Cassino campaign, and held at Stalag VIIB and according to records also at Oflag 79. I have very little information about his time as a POW apart from the fact that I knew he spoke fluent German, which was of great benefit to him during his time as a POW.
He spoke very little about the war and I only have his diary and some letters to my mother as reference. He was in Tunisia with the 1/6th Battalion and following the German surrender went on to Italy and was in the battle for Monte Cassino. I think that he was captured at Monte Camino possibly in February 1944 and then transferred to Stalag VIIB. I have only just found a record of him being at Oflag 79. His POW number was 128885. I would be grateful for any feedback although there will be few still alive from that time now.
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Pvt. Mario "Marty" DelArciprete My stepfather, Mario DelArciprete was captured while on a scouting expedition. He was taken to Stalag 7B, in Memingen, Bavaria. I don't know all of the details, but he had had a ruptured appendix and was a a hospital at the time of liberation. He spoke of being hungry all the time. He said the Russian soldiers were treated the worst, only being fed a couple of times a week. Marty told the story of being pulled in a wagon to get to hospital after appendix burst. At the hospital, he saw German soldiers in rough condition and didn't think he would make it out alive. He did. On the journey back to the camp, the soldier pulling the wagon was shot and killed, just before they arrived. Marty weighed 87 pounds when liberated, he was 6 feet tall.
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Pte. Ernest R. Mathieu Ernest Mathieu served with the US Army in WW2. He was captured in Italy in 1944 and held prisoner of war in Memmingen Stalag 7B, through to 19th of May 1945.
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Pvt William "Snub" Russo Royal Scots My Uncle William was a Prisoner of War at Stalag 7B Memmingen Bavaria 48-10. This was well before I was born, but I remember that he could barely move his arm. That arm had scars on it that were dug into his skin. My parents would never speak of it. My uncle died in 1962 from alcohol related illness. Does anyone remember him? I think his nickname was Snub.
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