My daughter's husband's mother's family were ethnic Germans from Romania, who were resettled in Teschen/Cieszyn, Poland in 1939-40. Her father joined the Allgemeine SS in 1941 and for a time was a guard at Theresienstadt, then went to Yugoslavia and returned in 1943 to take care of his daughters after his wife had died.
My daughter's husband's mother has died and the father has moved to a retirement home, so their house, in Bad Boll, was sold and their belongings liquidated. Among the belongings were photos and the grandfather's Arbeitsbuch from 1939-52.
As you can see, the family lived in Deutsche Mittelstelle Lagers in 1941. The father joined the SS at that time, as the photo shows, and the Arbeitsbuch indicates this is when he started working at the local jail. A later photo, from 1943, shows him in his civil uniform and the Abeitsbuch indicates that he started work at an electrical plant in Pless. His wife is now dead, he is no longer in the SS, and he looks like he has been through the mill. I'm told that he did "bad things" in Yugoslavia.
Sadly, there is no surviving SS Soldbuch or Werpass, due to the fact that in 1944-45 the family had to escape the advancing Russian Army, and, of course, anything identifying him as being a former member of the SS was discarded.
Before she died, my daughter's husband's mother wrote me the story of their escape from the East, which I include here.
Any further information that can be gleaned from the Arbeitsbuch pages I'm posting here would be appreciated.
By the way, our former SS man survived the war and lived into his eighties.
My daughter's husband's mother has died and the father has moved to a retirement home, so their house, in Bad Boll, was sold and their belongings liquidated. Among the belongings were photos and the grandfather's Arbeitsbuch from 1939-52.
As you can see, the family lived in Deutsche Mittelstelle Lagers in 1941. The father joined the SS at that time, as the photo shows, and the Arbeitsbuch indicates this is when he started working at the local jail. A later photo, from 1943, shows him in his civil uniform and the Abeitsbuch indicates that he started work at an electrical plant in Pless. His wife is now dead, he is no longer in the SS, and he looks like he has been through the mill. I'm told that he did "bad things" in Yugoslavia.
Sadly, there is no surviving SS Soldbuch or Werpass, due to the fact that in 1944-45 the family had to escape the advancing Russian Army, and, of course, anything identifying him as being a former member of the SS was discarded.
Before she died, my daughter's husband's mother wrote me the story of their escape from the East, which I include here.
Any further information that can be gleaned from the Arbeitsbuch pages I'm posting here would be appreciated.
By the way, our former SS man survived the war and lived into his eighties.
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