[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Resettlement camp

[Karl Krueger]

I just did a Google search for Berka-Wipper and it seems other people doing ancestral research are also looking for it. But a German Wikipedia site gives what seems to be the answer you are looking for.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berka_%28Sondershausen%29
 
The town Berka lies on the Wipper River. It's Kreisstadt is Sondershausen and it lies in Thüringen very close to the old West-East German border. So I believe this was a camp to receive refugees from the east. So he did make it out to West Germany but I guess his health so bad and food was scarce after WW II that these conditions were too much for him. This area was a bit south of where my family got out.
Karl

From: Joan Tonn <tonn at triwest.net>
To: Ger-Poland-Volhynia at sggee.org 
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 10:03 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Resettlement camp


Has anyone heard of a resettlement camp called Berka-Wipper?  My
grandfather's brother died there as a sick, old man in February 1946 after
leaving his farm in Poland to go back to Germany.  I can't seem to locate
it now.  His wife, daughters, niece all were with him.  Many people died of
sickness and malnutrition in the camps. Thank you.

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