[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] post WWII camp in Poland

[Linda Pauling]

I have been helping a woman in Berlin who is not on our list, and I am hoping that one of you may be able to give her some information about a camp in post WWII Poland.

 

Here is what she wrote:

You remember I told you that Emma Bilitz Krause died of hunger in a camp. In her last weeks or days she wrote a letter to Siegfried. It contains that "Liddie"  - my granny - also lived in that camp. They had to work hard there. She mentioned the name of that camp but neither the curator nor the archive in Cuxhaven were  able to dechipher it. It was a manor like Saidokan the curator writes. Low German, clumbsy writing, a mix of German, Polish and Russian letters, other factors....I have no idea what could be meant. Do you have any? Maybe the manor ended with   ...ken which was a final syllable more North.



Both Emma Bilitz Krause and her sister Lydia nee Bilitz were born in Lipiny, Lipno in 1895 and 1900, the daughters of Martin Bielitz and Karoline Lembke.  Emma died 6 Dec 1947 in Bendzen, near Sierpc. Her husband Ferdinand Krause died in the same village in 1941.

 

I am not clear whether the camp would have been near to Bendzen or if this was the home village for Emma and Ferdinand Krause.

 

I would appreciate any suggestions to help identify the camp, the location, or anything about the camp. 

Linda Marks Pauling

 

 

 

..."for such a time as this..." Esther 4:14