Information required on location of WW2 prisoner of war working parties ( arbeits kommandos ) in Poland 23 Dec 2020 #1
Throughout WW2, a member of my family spent the duration of the war in a POW camp, Stalag VIIIB, in Åambinowice, then known as Lamsdorf.
Prisoners were typically sent out from this camp to undergo forced labour in working parties in the surrounding areas and further afield. My family member, for example, was forced to work 12 hours a day underground in a coal mine.
Often, these working parties corresponded to areas and towns within Poland. This is what I am interested in.
Last week I received copies of some German prisoner of war records for my family member. The rest are in the Russian State Archives.There is not a great deal of information in them, but some of it is in German. I was hoping somebody here may be able to translate, although the handwriting isn t very legible.