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Stalag VIIIB/344 Lamsdorf

WORKING PARTIES

contact: mail@lamsdorf.com

Also known as Work Camps or Arbeits Kommandos (Kdo)
or B.A.B. s. (
Bau und Arbeits Battalion / construction battalion)
In The Clarion they are invariably referred to as Working Parties.
Many of the men held in Stalag VIIIB/344 were not in the main camp but in smaller work camps known as arbeits kommandos.
The "E" prefix stands for English, but POWs from many Commonwealth countries worked in these camps.

For insights into life at Lamsdorf Working Parties, read
Lamsdorf In Their Own Words
Click HERE for more information and to buy

In the second Issue of The Clarion, February 1943, the RC Chaplain Father John Berry says that "...there are about 600 Working Parties and ..... you will be able to guess why so many of you will have not yet had a visit". Only a fraction of these are listed here - the list will be updated as and when more information is discovered. If you can add to the list, please email on mail@lamsdorf.com. Sometimes the staff at the Polish Central Prisoner of War Museum at Lambinowice (Lamsdorf) can help with identifying the locations of various working parties. You can email them on lambinowice@cmjw.pl

No guarantee can be given about the accuracy of this list. The information has come from many different sources, both published and from memories, diaries, letters and other documents. Any more information will be gratefully received: mail@lamsdorf.com

A lot of information has been provided from this link  - many thanks.


Salt Mines
 
Whatever some returning POWs might have claimed:
  • There were no POW Working Parties in salt mines.
  • No POWs worked in salt mines.
  • There were no salt mines anyway!
 
During the second world war the nearest salt mine to Krakow was the Wieliczka Mine (now a tourist attraction) which is 230 km east of Lamsdorf, just south of Krakow, and completely outside the area where the POW Working Parties operated. No POWs worked there although the Nazis did show some interest in the mine and sent some Jews to work in an underground armament factory set up there. However, manufacturing never began as the Soviet offensive was nearing. Some of the machines and equipment was disassembled, including an electrical hoisting machine from the Regis Shaft, and transported to Liebenau in the Sudetes mountains. Part of the equipment was returned after the war, in autumn 1945. The Jews were transported to factories in the Czech Republic and Austria.
 
There had been another salt mine at Bochnia, 260 km east of Lamsdorf, but this closed after the first world war.
 
The only other salt mine was at Klodawa, 265 km north of Lamsdorf, but this did not open until 1949.
 
This information has been confirmed by a Polish mining expert and by the Polish Central Prisoner-of-War Museum at Łambinowice (Lamsdorf) on the site of the former Stalag VIIIB/344.


Scroll down to the bottom of the page for:  2. OTHER LISTS     3. NAME CHANGES 


1. Working Parties/Arbeits Kommandos:

The name in brackets shows the present-day name of the place, if known [eg Oppeln (Opole)].
Sometimes more than one location for a working party has been suggested, and in this case both are shown
[eg Gogolin / Tiefbau].

The information about locations, nature of work and accommodation and numbers of POWs involved, has been obtained from the various lists shown on this page, and sometimes from personal accounts written by POWs. It is possible that although that information might have been correct at the time it was originally written down, it might not have been the same throughout the existence of the Working Parties concerned.



 Working Parties with unknown numbers

Agneshütte /Agnieszka - probable coal mine (in Katowice) information

Bömischdorf (Česká Ves) POWs employed by an iron mining and metallurgical company.

Eichberg / Dąbrowa Bolesławiecka

​Gabersdorf (Libeč) Sudentenland - flax factory (see this link)

Gross Dungen - sugar beet factory

Gross Krosse (Velká Kraš)  POWs employed by the Didier company (possibly ceramics).

Gross Krosse (Velká Kraš) POWs on agricultural and forestry work. Accommodation in a local pub. The squad consisted of 60 prisoners. Four prisoners apparently shot whilst escaping - buried at the Catholic cemetery in Vidnava.

Krautenwalde (Travná) Forestry work. POWs accommodated at a place called Bei Buche near the village. 45 POWs.

Krebsgrundtal (Račí Údolí) POWs working in the Archbishop Forest.

Ober Gostitz (Horní Hoštice) Forestry work.

Schalkendorf in the Kreis (Area of) Opole.

Stauverder

Weigelsdorf (Vikantice) 120 POWs employed in the Jindrichovskych tar paper mills.

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Working Parties with unknown numbers in the Jeseník district:
Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
(source: click here)

Česká Ves
53 POWs working in an iron mine and metallurgical company. In 1943 the British were sent to other camps and replaced by Russian POWs.
 
Horní Hoštice
27 POWs were housed in the ‘Na Střelnici’ hunting lodge (Hundorf) and worked for the German Forest Administration.
 
Jeseník district
POWs employed by the Didier company.
 
Račí Údolí
POWs employed in the so-called ‘Archbishop’s Forest’.
 
Travná
45 POWs employed in forestry work.
 
Velká Kraš
60 POWs doing agricultural and forestry work. They were staying at the local inn. 4 escaping POWs were shot on the run: Frederic Ratcliffe, Frederick John Collings, Georg Wight Harper and Joseph Humphries. The dead were buried at the Roman Catholic cemetery in Vidnava. After the war their remains exhumed and moved to Prague to the Olšanské cemetery.
 
Vikantice
120 POWs employed in the Lepenkárně Jindřichovských paper mills.
 
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Here is a list of  Working Parties in the Blechhammer district compiled by Edward Haduch, to whom many thanks.
Click here to open as an Excel Worksheet       
Click here to open as an Open Document Spreadsheet
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BAB 20 Blechhammer / Kedzierzyn-Kozle (late renamed E794)
Building the IG Farben factory at Heydebreck. Originally set up in Thorn (Torun) in September 1940, moved to Heydebreck in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs. Amalgamated with BAB 40 in March 1943 as BAB 20 (1200 POWs), In December 1944 the designation was changed to E794 - see these links: BAB 20 link BAB 20 link 2   also: notes and information

  • A list of the POWs at this Working Party, compiled by Keith Newman.

BAB 21 Blechhammer / Kedzierzyn-Kozle (later renamed E793)
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer -  originally set up in Posen (Poznan) in 1940. Moved to Blechhammer in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs, amalgamated with BAB 48 in March 1943 as BAB 21 (1200 POWs), In December 1944 the designation was changed to E793. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
  • A list of the POWs at this Working Party, compiled by Keith Newman.
           See this as a open document spreadsheet by clicking here.
  • photo
other links:
  • BAB 21 link 
  • Bab 21 link 2  
  • Keith Newman's BAB 21 Blog
  • notes 
  • information     
  • Video of Harold Pitt, who was a POW at BAB 21, talking about his experiences.

BAB 40 Heydebreck  / Kedzierzyn-Kozle (later renamed E794)
B
uilding the IG Farben chemical factory at Heydebreck - originally set up in Thorn (Torun) in September 1940, moved to Heydebreck in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs, amalgamated with BAB 20 in March 1943 as BAB 20 (1200 POWs). In December 1944 the designation was changed to E794.

BAB 48 Blechhammer (later renamed E793)
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - originally set up in Posen (Poznan) in 1940. Moved to Blechhammer in March 1942, consisted of about 600 POWs, amalgamated with BAB 21 in March 1943 as BAB 21 (1200 POWs), In December 1944 the designation was changed to E793. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.

​BAB 108 (probably the same as E67)
Various locations including ​Niklasdorf (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) and the Kreuzburg, Katy Wroclawskie and Neuhammer localities. This seems to have been a working party for Soviet POWs, but originally, in 1940, for British POWs. Apparently the British were replaced for being 'unsuitable'. The accommodation was at one time located in the MUNA munitions factory and consisted of 6 wooden barracks. The 600 POWs were used in building MUNA munitions factories (from the German Munitionsanstalt) roads and infrastructure. Working conditions were desperate. The prisoners were very hungry, which led to a proliferation of thefts of food. There was a great lack of water for washing etc as well as drinking water. The POWs were working twelve hours a day. Occasionally they were also put to work clearing snow on the railways and roads. There was a very limited supply of Red Cross food parcels, new uniforms and work clothes.  The British element of the Working Party was apparently disbanded in 1941. Some of the POWs were subsequently transferred to a working party in the town of Zwittau (Svitavy). Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.
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E1 Laband/Łabędy (a district of Gliwice) - various labouring jobs, including road construction work, sugar beet harvesting and work on construction the Adolf Hitler Canal, now known as the Gliwice Canal, connecting the Oder River to the city of Gliwice/Gliwitz.

E2 Cosel / Kozle - loading timber on to railway waggons, smashing  concrete tank traps with hammers as a punishment in a 'penal squad' - set up in June 1940, 200 POWs.
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E3 Blechammer
B
uilding the OHW factory at Blechhammer - set up in June 1940, 760-800 POWs. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.
See these links: 
  • E3 link  
  • notes 
  • information   
  • Book

E6 Ehrenforst / Sławięcice
Building the OHW factory at Blechhammer - no information on this Working Party available, it is mentioned in a book by Polish historians about POW camps in Wehrkreis VIII (the German Military District VIII). The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.

E8 Krappitz - paper mill

E16 Blechhammer area - no information on this Working Party, it was mentioned in ICRC (Red Cross) documents among other camps n the area.

E17 Opole - cement factory photos
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E21 Petershofen (Petrkovice) - coal Mine link 1 link 2 

E22 Gleiwitz-Ohringen (Gliwice Sosnica)
Could have been working in the Oehringen Bergbau A.G. Schachtanlage Sosnitza coal mine, or on the railway, or both (the huts where the POWs were house were between the railway tracks). Gleiwitz-Ohringen is a railway junction, today known as Gliwice Sosnica.
See this link: notes

​E25 Rauschwalde, Kreis Falkenberg

E26 Stiebendorf

E27 coal mine   also: notes

E30 Oppeln (Opole)

E31Pechhütte / Schelitz / Wiesengrund

E34 Groschowitz  (Groszowice) - Building work

E42. Rothfest (Rudawa) - Paper Mill   also: notes

E51 Klausberg - coal mine also: notes

E55 Wunschgrube

E56 Ottmütz (Ottmuth) Airfield.  also: more information  and: Reginald L. Borrett

E58 Glatz

E59 Glatz

E60 Glatz

E61 Glatz

E62 Gleiwitz-Steigern

E67 Freiwaldau  (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) - the Muna Niklasdorf munitions factory. Probably was originally called BAB 108 (see above)

E69 Glatz

E70 ? - sugar Beet Factory

E71 Neurode

E72 Beuthen (Bytom) Hohenzollern coalmine. POWs accommodated at Schomberg (Szombierki)
See these links:
  • book extract
  • George Hawkins 
  • ​Eric West

E74 Althaus

E75 E75A Knurow - coal mine
See these references:
  • Blake 
  • Barnett  
  • Thompson

E83 Morgenroth

E86 see this link: book extract
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E88 Hohrnlohehutte / Königshütte

E90 Erlenbusch   also: notes

E91 Mittelbrüc

E93 Sakrau - limestone quarry  - See Ted Lees' account Here (chapter 8)

E94 Emilienhoff - limestone quarry (Ottmuthweich?)

E95 Glassdörfl (Sklené) / Hannsdorf (Hanušovice)      
  • See this document: E95     
  • and: group photo front   /   back (signatures)
  • and: E95 map       
  • (Possible working at or billeted in a textile mill   see: photo)

​E96 Krappitz (Krapkowice) - cardboard factory. 25 men in the working party. See this 1939 link (might be a different factory) and this link about an escape
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E100 Tarnau
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​E106 Frankenberg

E109 Ehrenfeld (Goslawice) / Niesnersberg? (Nýznerov) - forestry work.  [Accommodated in a forest camp. The working part comprised 70 prisoners. Later they were replaced by Russian prisoners.]   also: notes

E110 Stauwerder

E111 Sank Annaberg - stone quarry

E113

E114 Gross Kunzendorf (Velké Kunětice) - stone quarry and factory. Prisoners housed inside the factory building in the village. Working party consisted of 12 prisoners. Link

E115 Burgwasser (Dobra) See this link: E115

E116 Bielau (or Bilov) (Bělá ve Slezsku, Czech Republic)

E117 Oppeln (Opole)

E118 Oppeln (Opole)

E119 Mankendorf - saw Mill Link

E120 Schlippengrund (Tomíkovice) Franke und Bruder granite quarry. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.) See this list: list

E123 Glaubenstadt

E125 Breslau-Dürrgoy

E126 Oppeln (Opole) / Halbendorf

E129 Setzdorf (Vápenná) Zoth Quarry - 15 POWs. See this list: list

E130 Heuerstein  (Strzelce Opolskie) - quarry

E131 Gogolin / Tiefbau Pollok - stone quarry

E132 Gogolin

E133 Rogau

E137 Ratiborhammer

E138 Ratibor - steel works

E140 also: notes

E149 Buchenlust  (Rachowice) - forestry work - Mentioned on this link Saunders

E150 Oderfest

E151 Concordia

E152 Waldenstein - Lime quarry and kiln - See this link Morris

E153 Cosel / Kosle

​E154 - Coal Mine? Mentioned HERE with a group photo and some names

E155 Cosel-Oderhafen / Kozle Port - Siemans paper factory - 100 + POWs - See this link: E155

E156 Erbersdorf

E158 Patschkau

E159 Domstadtl - quarry

E161 - farm

E162 Oderthal

E164 Patschkau

E165 Oppeln

E166 Saubsdorf (Supíkovice) - quarry.   200 POWs employed at the quarry.) Features in the book Do The Birds Still Sing In Hell? by British POW Horace Greasley, who became famous for claiming that he escaped from E166 over 200 times in the conduct of a clandestine love affair with a local German woman, Rosa Rauchbach, who was an interpreter at the camp, returning into captivity each time.  Guard 4 Compass of the L-Batalion 438.   Also: Horrie Woods book

E167 Friedeberg  (Žulová) / Haspelberg Albert Förster - quarry.    [Accommodation in a former office at the quarry. Working party consisted of 20 to 25 prisoners. At the end of March 1945, 20 prisoners were evacuated to Bavaria.] See this list: list

E168 Gurschdorf (Skorošice) - Albert Förster Quarry. 5 British POWs - amongst possibly 400 POWs of various nationalities.  The British were accommodated in building no. 196, together with French POWs.

E171 Setzdorf  (Vápenná) - Neugebauer Limestone Quarry [Accommodated in the property of the company. Working party consisted of 29 prisoners.]

E172 Setzdorf (Vápenná) - Alojs Rösner Limestone Quarry. 1 death - John McCormack (source: this document)

E173 Setzdorf (Vápenná) - Anton Latzel lime quarry and kiln. 60 POWs in the working party. 1 death - Nelson David Ogg, 15th March, 1943 (source: this document). See this list: list
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E174 Sandhübel (Písečná) - Becke Franke und Brüder brickworks. Up to 30 in the working party, accommodated in a single room in the brickworks.

E175 Sandhübel (Písečná) POWs employed in the local paper mill, housed in wooden barracks 200m from the factory. 30 prisoners in Working Party. See this list: list

E180 Ohlau

E181 Laugwitz / Sauerwitz

E182 Schöngarten

E183 Bernstadt

E184 Ohlau am Schloßteich

E187 Gandau

E188 Sternberg

E190 Geroldsdorf

E191 Stöblau

E192 Oels

E195 Roding

E196 Opoleonoora - cement factory (Opole)

E198 Schlegel and mentioned HERE with a group photo

E199 Waldenburg / Wałbrzych - glassworks   photo

E200 Weisswasser (Bílá Voda) Schleife Forestry work.
E201 Dirschel

E203 Opole - cement works

E207 Ehrenforst /Sławięcice - Jewish/Palestinian POWs in the British Army - building the OHW factory at Blechhammer and housing for the workers there  - Set up in December 1941, still existed in spring 1943. ​The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.  (see this link)
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E209 Bobrek - coal mine  also: notes

E211 Treibiz - railway

E214 Schubertkrosse

E218 Flossingen Forestry work

E224 Jogsdorf (Jakubčovice nad Odrou) Stone quarry, 30 men. See these letters

E225 Quarry - See these letters

E227 Hartha

E231 Kerzdorf, Krs.Lowenberg

E232 Rabishau (Rębiszów) Stone quarry. See also these links: Rabishau 2 Rabishau 3 Rabishau 4 (see page 16)

 E233 Wiese

E235 Ebersdorf

E234 Tonhain (previously Tschirne, now Czerna) Clay/Ceramic/Earthenware works E234 information

E242 Oppeln (Opole)

E243 Breslau (gasworks) and mentioned HERE with some group photos and names

E246 Königshütte

E247 Leobschütz

E249 Kriegsdorf see this link: E249 link

E250 Adelsdorf (Adolfovice) Production of wood wool in the Weihöniga Max Ledler timber works. 192 POWs were housed in a wooden barrack not far from the road to the Jeseníky Mountains. Each prisoner had his own bed. There was a bathroom, toilet and a hall for occasional theatre productions etc. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. See this list: list       also: notes

E253 Zuckerfab /Neukirch-Cosel district. Mentioned here

E254 Geppersdorf

E255 Hartenau

E256 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory)

E260 Gross Stanisch-Gross Zeidel (Staniszcze Wielkie) / Vosswalde, Cardboard Factory 

E265 Grafenweiler ( Gmina Kolonowski)

E268 Moschendorf

E272 Falkenberg, Sawmill

E273 Niklasdorf (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) Prisoners housed near Mikulovice railway station. C. Liemert Fezfabrik marble processing plant. There were between 14 and  66 prisoners in the working party. British POWs from other working parties shared the same accommodation.  Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.) See these lists: E273 list    list 2

E274 Patschkau

E275 Stein? or Barzdorf (Bernartice u Javorníka) Barzdorf. Prisoners employed at the Alois Mettner joinery works where they were also staying.

E276 Ottmachau (Otmuchów) sugar beet factory   also: notes

E282 Ottmachau

E283 Ratibor (sugar mill) photos (and a possible mention in this link)

E287 Neukirch

E288 Bauerwitz / Baborów, sugar beet factory

E291 Stephansdorf

E294 ? Sugar Beet factory

E297 Starenheim

E302 (mentioned briefly in this document: Henderson)

E303 Petersweiler (Pietrzykowice) / sugar factory photo    (and mentioned in this document: Blackmore)

E312 Stramberk - Quarry Link: Horrie Woods book

E316 Mocker

E317 Nimmsdorf

E320  Rosenborn

E321 Glatz

E323 Waldsiedel

E324 Gross Dubrnsko or Dubensko?

E330 Thule - mentioned here

E331 Mittelbrück

E332 Rudgershagen

E333 Ober Lindenwiese (Horní Lipová) Vohwinkel company (probably a timber or stonemasonry works). Prisoners accommodated in abandoned stone masons works - 10 in the working party. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.

E334 Adelsdorf  (Adolfovice) Prisoners employed in the Max Weihönig Leglera timber factory. Housed in wooden barracks not far from the road to Jesenik. Each prisoner had his bed. The camp had a bathroom, shower room and hall for occasional theatre. Working party consisted of 166 POWs. As noted on 8th August 1942, they were housed at building no. 31 at the works. 

E335 Bohmischdorf

E336 Albert Förster Quarry, Niklasdorf. 12 POWs who were accommodated near the station along with the British POWs from other working parties. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.    List of names  and also this list: list

E337 Krokersdorf (Krakořice) Czechoslovakia (in the district of Sternberg (Šternberk)  see this link (brief mention): http://www.ssceramic.co.uk/ebook.pdf and go to page 391

E338 Freudenthal? Iron mine. Also Sternberg.See this link E338 link

E339 Freudenthal, railway. See these links: E339 link   link 2

E341 Buchenhöh

E342 Albrechtsdorf

E345 Ratiborhammer

E346 Lenschütz - farm

E348 Neisse

E349 photo

E352 Freudenthal (Bruntál) Emmerich Machold linen factory.   also: notes

E354 Jagerndorf (Javorník) saw mill & timer goods factory. 73 POWs were employed in the so-called ‘Archbishop’s Wood’, loading logs.   Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.  also: notes

E355 Ziegenhals   also: notes

E357 Niklasdorf (Jeseníku/Buchsdorf/Buchsberg (Buková) POWs employed in agriculture. See this link: link    
also: 
documents re. escapes: 1  2
More information 1    More information 2

​E361 Sternberg Timber Works link link 2

E363 Ratiborhammer (Kuźnia Raciborska) The main industry in this town was the  Schondorff-Hegenscheidt factory making aircraft parts.       See photo gallery of E363 personnel here.

E364 Buchelsdorf (Bukovice u Jeseníka) 9 POWs were employed at the Bartsch sawmill and housed on the company’s property. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438)

E365 Gross Strelitz lime quarry

E367 Jagerndorf

E371 Ziegenhals

E372 Waldenstein

E373 Blaschke (Vlaské) Czechoslovakia, sawmill     and see this document: E373   and: E373 map
(Possibly billeted in a textile mill. See: photo)
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​E374 Rauden

E376 Leobschütz

E378 Brück

E380 Ober-Lindenwiese (Horní Lipová) 6 POWs were at the Holbaum saw mill, loading and unloading timber. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.)

E381 Olbersdorf (Roztocznik) - railway work      also: notes

E382 Ratibor

E383 ? Sugar Beet Factory (Hohen Fels?)

E384 Chromec, railway work link

E385 Friedrichsgrätz

E386 Schöndorf (Krasna)

E388 Bodisch

E389 Rudgershagen

E391 Mahr Trubau

E392 Oppeln (Opole)

E393 Mittel-Lazisk

E394 Turawa

E396 Lubowitz

E397 Mosern? or Adolfovice/Adelsdorf Prisoners employed in agriculture. Housed in a barn. The squad consisted of 28 prisoners.

E398 Bauerwitz / Baborów   also: notes

E399 Sudetenland Cardboard Factory  link
E401 Sandhübel (Písečná) [35 in the working party employed by the Becke Natursteinwerk quarry company. They were accommodated at the local railway station]
​See this link: link

E403 link

E404 Oppeln (Opole)

E405 Königswald

E406 Seifersdorf, Brickyard

E408 Hennersdorf

E410 Hammerfeld

E411 Hohenzollerngrube Beuthen coal mine     also: notes

E414 Hohenbirken, saw mill

E415 Hohenbirken, tile factory

E416 Koschentin

E419 Opole / Groschowitz

E424 Gräfenberg (Lázně Jeseník). 21 in working party working in the grounds of the Priessnitzově spa/sanitorium, where they were accommodated. During the war these facilities were used for were used for the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers and later for children from bombed German cities. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.  See this link: link

E428 Derschau, saw mill   link

E431 Unter-Weckelsdorf

E432 Lichtenwalde (Poręba) card

E433 Altrothwasser (Stará Červená Voda) 20 POWs employed at the Bat'a company quarry's Dunsthöhle site and accommodated on site.
See this link: link

E435 Sakrau

E437 Langendorf

E438 Oppeln (Opole)

E440 Glatz

E441 Glatz

E442 Neudorf

E444 Beneschau

E446 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) Sawmill [POWs accommodated in the sawmill buildings - 11 in the working party] See this link: link

E450 Ebersdorf

E451 Falkenau

E452 Gleiwitz / Öhringen   also: notes

E453  
also: notes

E454 Mühldorf

E455 Willmansdorf

E456 Kalkau

E459 Freheit (Sudentenland) Paper factory - 15 men in the working party (see this link)

E460 building railway bridge

E461 Barzdorf (Bernartice u Javorník) Working on the Latzel estate - 10 POWs.

E475 Weidengut

E476 Ziegenhals

E477 Deutsch-Wette

E478 Tost

E479 Tarnowitz

E484 Neisse. labouring

E486 Neisse labouring

E488 Grottkau

E489 Jauernig (Javorník)  6 POWs did farm work and/or carpentry work for the Speicher Estate. They were accommodated at the railway station in ‘House No. 148’

E490 Beuthen railway building

E492 Adolf Rieger Construction Company, Niklasdorf (Jeseníku) list of names   and this list

E494 Gleiwitz Ost (Possibly Gleiwitz Ost railway station, later known as Gleiwitz Sośnica.) / Gliwice also this link: Gleiwitz Ost 2

E495 Freiwaldau (Jasenik) 5 POWs worked in the Stellmacher Steiner engineering factory. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.See this link: link

E497 Freiwaldau (Jasenik) The work was loading and unloading trucks.

E500 Breslau
E501 Ratibor

E502 Burghammer / Grube Brigitta brown coal mine [actually administered by Stalag IVA, Elsterhorst]

E504 Patschkau

E508 Laurahutte / near Katowice [possibly around 900 POWs working in an arms factory - this is mentioned in a document here http://www.tenhumbergreinhard.de/1933-1945-lager-1/1933-1945-lager-a/auschwitz-oswiecim.php  - Auschwitz was not far away and there was also a sub-camp of Auschwitz at Laurahutte]

also

E508 Laubusch / Grube Erika brown coal mine [actually administered by Stalag IVA Elsterhorst]

E510 ? Sugar Beet factory

E513 Dombrowa mine

E532 Stephansdorf

E534 Patschkau

E535 Milowitz / Sosnowitz West coal mine
see: The Tiki Times
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E536 Neisse

E537 Althammer

E538 Sosnowice mine   also: notes

E539 Jauernig / Freiwaldau/ Niklasdorf (Jasenik / Mikulovice u Jeseníku) Steam sawmill. Prisoners housed outside the village, in a factory building, near the road. 
See this link: link

E540 Bölten (Bělotín) Cz

E541 Quellengrund

E542 Fohrengrund ub Gleiwtz

E543 Drmbrowa

E546 see this document
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E547 Neudorf

E548 Sandau

E549 Jakobswalde (Jewish/Palestinian) ​

E550 Hohenbirken, tannery

E551 Bankau (Bąków)

E552 Hindenberg Philipstr

E553 Ratibor

E557 Hemmersdorf

E560 Turawa

E561 Jaworzno / Tarnowtitz. railway depot loading and unloading trains

E562 Coal mine "Janina", near Libiaz

E563 Bory Jelen Jaworzno / Robertsgrube

E565 Arthurgrube / Sierza Wodna coal mine [Situated close to the river on the outskirts of Trzebinia in Upper Silesia, Poland. About 100 prisoners were housed in huts.]

E566 Borkendorf

E567 Heinersdorf / Leinersdorf

E568 Lugendorf-Meinfeld

E569 Schönwalde

E570 Ratiborhammer

E571 Grassen / Gruden forestry department

E753
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E574 Ziegenhals (Glucholazy) / Possibly quarry work
or maybe:
E574 Sowin - small joinery factory - see these links: Bradley  Cook

​E575 Sandowitz

E577 Saubsdorf  (Supíkovice) About 35 POWs.  See this link: link

E578 Peiskretscham (Pyskowice)

E579 Niwka     See these links:     Forster/Bryson     Morum         also: notes

E580 Czelads (Czeladź) Saturn Mine

E581 Tillowitz

E582 Neisse

E584 Marschendorf

E585 Jagerndorf, brickyard

E586 Kazimierz

E587 Czeladsgrube (Czelads Piaski) Coal mine see this link (Piaski mine is mentioned near the bottom of page)

E588 Rauden (Rudy) E588 information

E589 Jägerndorf / Otterfelde

E590 Freiwaldau (Jasenik) See this link: link

E591 Jassen

E592 Freiwaldau (Jasenik)

E594 Konigshutte (Chorzów) Chemical factory   also: notes

E595 Adolfovice/Adelsdorf Prisoners employed at the Max Legler factory making saws and other tools, mostly loading and unloading materials, accommodated in the factory building. Consisted of 31 prisoners.

E596 Jaworzno (SS Lager Neu Dachs / Dachs Gruber) link 1 link 2   link 3   link 4

E597 Olbendorf

E599 Ottmuthweiche

E600 Oberglogau (Głogówek) Sugar Beet Factory    also: notes
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E603 Hindenburg Concordia Coal mine

E606 Jägerndorf (Krnov)

E607 Mochau, Sugar Beet Factory    also: notes

E608 Poppelau / Hirschfelde (Kaniów)

E609 Kokottek / Koschmieder

E628 Stephansdorf

E701 Tichau Czulow (paper factory)

E702 Klimontow coal mine see these links: Klimontow 1   Klimontow 2        

E703 Poppelau

E704 Rosengrund

E706 Gleiwitz / Coal mine near Jaworzno, mostly Australians and New Zealanders

E707 Sosnowitz

E709 Stauwerder

E711 Reigersfeld (IG Farben)   also: notes

E711A Heydebreck

E713 Kasimirgrube

E714 Blechhammer - located in Blechhammer as part of Dorflager, building the OHW factory, 760 men, mostly moved from Italian camps, set up in September 1943. The OHW (Upper Silesian Hydrogenation Works) was intended to produce fuel from coal for the German armed forces.

E715 Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Monowitz was under the direction of the industrial company IG Farben, who were building a Buna (synthetic rubber) and liquid fuel plant there. It also had carbonization and carbide departments.  See these links: link 1    link 2    link 3   link 4    link 5   link 6

E720 Klimontow / Kathau-Wiesenau

E721 Kathau-Wiesenau

E723 Oppeln (Opole)

E724 Schwientochlowitz / Hohenlinde

E725 Konigshutte Bismark

E727 Mechtal Beuthen. power station

E728 Neu Oderberg - Railway work? photos

E730 Freiwaldau  (Jeseník) 21 POWs employed in the spinning mill Regenhart and Raymann spinning mill. They were accommodated in the Na Bělidle prison camp. (After the liberation the prisoners' quarters were used as an internment camp.)
See this link: link

E731 Zabrzeg

E732 Szyakowa

E733 Karlsthal

E734 Schoppintiz

E737 Vosswalde / Fosowskie Kolonowskie -  Chemische Fabrik Vosswalde produced charcoal, which was bagged and sent out by rail, and its by-product of wood alcohol.

E738 Trzebinia

E739 Dombrowa Grunkolonie / Ziegenhals

E740 Kobier / Langendorf

E742 Ober Lazisk / Rauden

E743 Jungferndorf (Kobylá) / Schwientochlowitz. 21 POWs working for the Vohwinkel timber business, or in the laundry of the Regenhart and Raymann arms factory. They were accommodated in the Na Bělidle prison camp. (After the liberation the prisoners' quarters were used as an internment camp.)

E744 Kazimierz / Lenztal - Coal mine

E746 Konigshutte/ Jogsdorf (Jakubčovice nad Odrou) Stone quarry, 34 men.

E747 Reichsbahn

E749 Peiskretscham (Pyskowice)

E750 Kattowitz / Baildonhütte

E753 
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E754 Czeladz - Probably a coal mine.

E755 Wojkowitz Komorne

E756 Radzionkau

E757 Morenrot / Stahlhammer

E758 Knurow

E766 Leobschütz

E768 Kumau?

E769 Reigersfeld (sometimes referred to as Heydebreck or Blechammer South). It was a small camp and  held about 600 men most of whom had originally been in Italian POW camps. The camp was constructed in 1944 and the men were used as labour on the IG Farben synthetic oil facility. All the Blechammer sites were  priority bombing targets during WW2.

E770 Ottmuth shoe factory picture    See also this information

​E771 Neisse

E773 Ruderswald

E774 Ratibor

E776 Gräfenberg (Lázně Jeseník) This working party was just one person, employed as a dental assistant. The dentist's name was Gocieka. 

E778 Schurgast

E779 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) [27 in the working party]

E780 Weidenau (Vidnava) 46 POWs working for the Didier company (possibly ceramics).  Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438.)
See this link: link

E781 Reihwiesen (Rejvíz) 61 POWs working in the so-called 'Archbishop's Forest'. Housed together with Russian POWs. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438

E782 Ratiborhammer

E786 Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) Scholz printing works [just 1 POW]. See this link: link

E790 Gurschdorf (Skorošice) 21 POWs working for the Granit AG company. Accommodated in building no. 196, together with French POWs. Guards: 4 Company, Battalion 438. See this link: link

E791 Würbenthal (Vrbno) E. Grohmann Flax spinning works

E792 Niklasdorf (Mikulovice u Jeseníku) [The prisoners were employed in local quarries. Accommodated in a POW camp on the old Salisova road, together with Russian prisoners.]

E793 Was originally named BAB 21 and BAB 48 (see above)

E794 Heydebreck (was BAB 20 and BAB 40 -  see this link E794 link) also: information

​E797 Ober Lindenwiese (Lipová Lázně/Spa) See this link: link
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E799 Schönhorst

E800 Klodnitz

E902 Delbruckschachte-Hindenburg coal mine  

E12001 Weizenrodau Sugar beet factory


2. OTHER LISTS
Here are links to other lists of Working Parties, giving some geographical locations - but mostly with the former German names:

​In the Blechhammer district:
Here is a list compiled by Edward Haduch, to whom many thanks: Click Here

There is a good list of Working Parties HERE with links to more information.

A useful list from Jaroslav Spáčil in Šumperk, Czechia

https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&u=http://www.kostelik.estranky.cz/clanky/hledani-zajatcu/seznam-pracovnich-taboru-na-jesenicku.html&prev=search

http://www.evzi.estranky.cz/clanky/mista-zajeti-a-internace-1922-1954/zajatecke-tabory-v-nemecku-a-na-okupovanych-oblastech-1939-1945/seznam-zajateckych-pracovnich-komand-v-cechach--na-morave-a-ve-slezsku-1939-1945/vojensky-okruh-viii--oblast-tesinskeho-slezska--severni-moravy--severovychodnich-a-severnich-cech/landkreis-neutitschein--novy-jicin-.html

http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/Work_camps.htm

http://powvets.com/pow-camps/stalags/lamsdorf-work-camps/

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3. NAME CHANGES
These sites help you to find the modern, Polish or Czech names of places that had German names during the second world war:
  • http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp
  • http://www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html
  • 'Facing Fearful Odds' list (click where it says 'page 272' to see the full list)
  • http://bunzlau.siegburg.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=66
  • Czech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical
  • A list of places encountered on the Long March of 1945, with historical and modern names, and other data


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