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POW PERSONAL CARD I:
Personal data:
- Issued in the LAMSDORF/OBERSCHLESIEN prisoner camp (Łambinowice/Upper Silesia)
- Dog tag number: nr 65931
Stalag 318 (VIII F)
Surname: Sirenko
Name: Wasilij Trofimowicz
Date and place of birth: 30.12.1906 Chutor Jurczenkowo
Creed: Orthodox
Father’s name: Trofim
Mother’s family name: Limanowa
Citizenship: Soviet Union-Ukraine
Military rank: private
Army type: T2/23 Artillery Regiment
Civilian occupation: farmer/1A2 occupation group
Date and place of capture: 23.07.1942 Rostow
Condition while captured: healthy
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Height: 160 cm
Hair: dark
Eye colour: hazel
Special marks: cavity on the front of the skull; oval face; medium build; head shaved completely
Finger print.
Name and address of a person to notify:
Wife: Vera Sirenko
Chutor Jurczenkowo
County: Wołczańsk
Oblast: Charkow
Hand remark: Died February 12th 1944
Buried in a single grave nr 1785
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Protective vaccinations during captivity: - 25.5.1943 against smallpox
- 25.5.1943 against typhus
-2Illness: lung edema – in the infirmary from 29.5.1943 to 2.7.1943
Died 12.2.1944 in the camp hospital
Cause of death: tuberculosis
/-/ camp doctor
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Transfers:
16.5.1943 transfered to STALAG 318 (VIIIF)
http://www.cmjw.pl/www/index.php?id=stalag_318
29.7.1943 transfered to STALAG XX B (Gdańsk)
03.2.1944 transfered sick to STALAG XX A (Toruń-Fort XIV – hospital)
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Work Group Assignment
- 02.8.1943 – transferred from STALAG VIII B to Gdańsk – Kashubian Canal (reloading the
goods in the port) until29.9.1943
- 29.9.1943 – transfered to the camp in Gdańsk-Oliwa (30.9.1943 - infirmary) until
25.10.1943
(Data from an online forum: Old Gdańsk: From my father’s stories, born in Oliwa, I know
that the Russian POW camp was located in the current Osiedle Młodych. When the prisoners
went to work they offered the kids staring at them various, handmade toys. The currency was,
of course, bread.
My father showed me exactly where were the barracks, where was the gate, headquarters, etc.
An interesting fact is that at the top near the forest, in a place where in the eighties, there was
a famous disco called “Kasztel” (or something like that) was once a detention. In the woods
on the moraines, just next to the beautifully situated housing estate is a place where many of
the dead prisoners were buried. It’s a completely unmarked and forgotten place…
Concerning the Stalags my information doesn’t come, as I’ve said, from official sources and
are only now much faded memories of my seventy-years-old father.
So to the point. As for the camp in place of the present Osiedle Młodych, it cover the area
from the present Norblin Street upwards, that is, looking at the city plan, a the rectangle limited by Norblin and Orlowski Street and along the edge of the forest. The whole area touched
the moraine. There were wooden barracks here. The gate and watchtower were on Norblin
Street, going from Abraham Street, where the forest ends. Father said that at the beginning of
the war there were French and English in the camp. After the war in the East began (Operation Barbarossa), Russian POWs were placed in the camp. They say that the rigor was clearly
sharpened; the local kids (including my father) came under the above-mentioned gate and
made “business” with the prisoners under tacit acceptance of the guards. (Toys, often very
nicely done in exchange for bread and food stamps)
The Stalag buildings survived the war operations, very intense in this region. What happened
to the prisoners – the old man doesn’t know. When the front passed huge stocks of all types of
carpentry, construction and joinery tools were found in the abandoned barracks. All brand
new and boxed. Soon after that the barracks were demolished and probably moved elsewhere.
- 25.10.1943 – assigned to the work unit at Gdańsk-Młyniska „Olex”
(Olex" Deutsche Benzin- und Petroleum-G.m.b.H., Lubeck)
- 11.11.1943 – Gdańsk-Oliwa – infirmary unitl 3.02.1944