Stalag
IVB und Special
camp 1
Commemoration
and remembrance (general)
Initiativgruppe Lager Mühlberg e.V., quite similar at the government of Saxony
The Online Exhibition „Du bist anders“ of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe documents the conditions of POWs in Germany using a personal biography.
Brandenburg Central Office for Political Education (in German)
Zeithain Memorial Grove
(The POW camp in Zeithain was subordinated to Stalag IVB)
Mühlberg/Elbe und die Stadt Bad Liebenwerda cooperate in the setup and maintenance of the memorial of Camp Mühlberg, also the Land Brandenburg is contributing financial support. Interestingly, in the memorial maintenance treaty between the two towns the authorities managed to find a new word for the prisoners of both camps: the „Erlebnisgeneration“, i.e. the „event generation“.
In 2012, an information trail was installed where visitors can learn more about the camp history from 17 glass steles erected at the site of Stalag IVB and Soviet special camp.Mühlberg/Elbe: no information in the internet ! The web site of the town reports on the Soviet special camp in Sachsenhausen. No comment on local history. However, the town museum has a small exhibition on the history of the camp.
Bad Liebenwerda: no information in the internet. The camp is situated on the current area of the town.
Gudrun Andrich, the memorial teacher of camp Mühlberg, resides every Thursday in the municipal archive, Breite Straße 10, 04924 Bad Liebenwerda. There is space to work with children in smaller groups, and there is an exhibition on the „camp of two dictatorships“. This exhibition is designed under the leadership of G. Andrich by students of the Elsterschloss-Gymnasium (high school) in Elsterwerda.
Neuburxdorf: The cemetery of Neuburxdorf hosts the memorial of the victims of Stalag IVB.
The local heritage club (Heimatverein Neuburxdorf) is active in camp remembrance and contributed an 18th glass stele to the camp information trail. On its web site, the club has almost no information on the camp.Brottewitz: No information. In the sugar factory worked many prisoners of Stalag IVB. Inhabitants of Brottewitz helped the prisoners of the special camp to send messages to their relatives.
Kosilenzien: a note on the camp (in German)
Martinskirchen: private web site
POW
camp Stalag IVB
Commemoration
and remembrance – international
UK - War time memories , additionally page 2 there: personal memories, pictures, many names
UK: the National Library of Wales has magazines in English and Welsh fabricated by the POWs in Mühlberg, see also BBC movie I, BBC movie II and an BBC article on the topic
UK: a private web site on British POW Robert Otterson with many details, among them letters from the camp and a report about liberation of Stalag IVB
UK – pegasusarchive: pictures, drawings, postcards
UK – the BBC collected World War II memories: from Stalag IVB they have Philip Green
UK: a private web site with the memories of RAMC colonel David Jebbitt on the end phase of Stalag IVB under Soviet command
Russia – TV channel NTV: movie, how the son of Stalag IVB POW Alexander Cernov finds the grave of his father in Zeithain
Australia – the Man From Snowy River Museum in Corryong has a 2x2m2 rug with the map of Australia on display. The rug was knitten in Stalag IVB by POW Jim O. Simpson, his story is also told.
New Zealand: the Air Force Museum of New Zealand has an online exhibition on the navigator of the Royal New Zealand Airforce Wiliam Milner Smith who has been a POW in Stalag IVB, many details and authentic material, among others a letter of the Polish soldier Barbara Rawicz-Nowicka who was also POW in Mühlberg
Denmark/New Zealand/UK: The Danish web site airmen.dk reports on RNZAF gunner Frank McGregor and contains a 70 pages report on McGregors memories, 35 pages of these dedicated to Stalag IVB as well as another report on the last days of Stalag IVB
Canada: online exhibition on pilot William E. Rowbotham, who has been a POW in Stalag IVB
Canada: 2 personal memories from the POW camp Mühlberg
Netherlands – WW2museums.com: short overview
Netherlands: an article with photos, drawings and lots of information on Stalag IVB in the journal Mars et historia 2000, 34(4): (S. 34-37)
Netherlands: private web site of former Stalag IVB POW Wim Jumpertz on his time in the camp, with actual tips on visiting the memorial and the town museum Mühlberg
Netherlands: clandestine fotos of camp Mühlberg by Cor van Weele
Poland – web site dedicated to the poet Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, who has been a POW in Stalag IVB
Poland – web site to remember the Polish POWs in camp Zeithain-Mühlberg and the memorial for Polish victims at the POW cemetery Neuburxdorf
Poland – The Museum of the Warsaw Uprising 1944 documents interviews with former Stalag IVB POWs, among them those of Jan Brodzki, the director of the Polish puppet theatre in the camp
Soviet
special camp 1
Gedenken,
Erinnern, Informationen
Foundation Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Places of repression – Mühlberg, the website provides a map of all Soviet special camps
Netherlands – ww2museums: a very short overview on Soviet special camp 1
in German:
Memorial Deutschland e.V.: Informations on the Soviet repression system with 2 important essays by Achim Kilian and Gerhard Finn on Soviet special camps in Germany
Brandenburg Central Office for Political Education, the pdf-file contains an essay by Jörg Morré on Soviet special camp 1
Delitzsch: L. Freiberg from Municipal Archive Delitzsch wrote an article on „Delitzscher Internierte in sowjetischen Speziallagern 1945-1950“, amended by a detailed list of victims from Landkreis Delitzsch
Freiberg/Saxony: A booklet published by Vereinigung der Opfer des Stalinismus e.V. (Union of Victims of Stalinism, VOS) with an introduction by Freiberg's mayor informs about Freiberg citizens in the Soviet camp Mühlberg and other camps.
The VOS Freiberg/Sa. Could collect a list of 72 missing persons and 148 victims of communist violence from the Freiberg region.Oderwitzer Nachrichten 05/2009, K.L. Gotthans: Aus der Ortschronik - Oderwitz im Jahre 1945/46 part 2. p.9 – 11; Gotthans reports on the destiny of people from Oderwitz and on the Soviet special camp in general
Wurzener Amtsblatt 6/2011 p.9 „Gegen das Vergessen“ („Lest we forget“) The text reports on about 300 persons from Wurzen, many of the teenager, that have been imprisoned in Soviet camps. Erhard Krätzschmar, a former prisoner of the Soviet special camp 1 leads a delegation from Wurzen through the camp.