Moschendorf, Germany
| The facility was constructed
as a concentration camp and was was
located in Hof near the Saale river in North eastern Bavaria very near the
Eastern border. The camp was
located immediately along the railway yard between Regensburg and
Moschendorf, served in 1945 as a transit camp for displaced persons and
returnees. After the 1946 extension, the camp could accommodate 5,000
people, including refugees from the Soviet occupation zone, later East
Germany. It was an extensive facility to provide for all the refugees and
returnees, including a hospital. A kindergarten and school were
established. There was a Catholic church and the Lutheran Church of the
Resurrection.
In April 1957 the refugee camp
of Moschendorf was dissolved. The demolition of the barracks was not
completed until the spring of 1962. Today the property is home for
a textile company.
A monument on the street reminds Wunsiedler with the following
inscription on the former camp: "The border transit and mass storage
Moschendorf was here 1945-1957 gateway to freedom for hundreds of
thousands of German prisoners of war, civilian detainees and displaced
persons of World War II who came from the far reaches of the East. .
admonition to condemn this place, the violence, to renounce the hatred
aimed at reconciliation and true peace in freedom. "Dunning is the place
to condemn the violence, to renounce hatred, to serve the reconciliation
and true peace in freedom."
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Lager
Moschendorf:
Stories of Franz
Dreer & Family, remembered by his wife Anne Koch Dreer |
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Memorial to the Camp
Denkmal zur Erinnerung an
das Lager Moschendorf in der Wunsiedler Strße in Hof (Saale).
Text at the bottom of the
base:
"DAS GRENZDURCHGANGS- UND
ENTLASSUNGSLAGER MOSCHENDORF WARHIER
1945 - 1957 TOR ZUR FREIHEIT FÜR HUNTERTAUSENDE DEUTSCHE
KRIEGSGEFANGENE, ZIVILGEFANGENE UND
VERTRIEBENE DES ZWEITEN
WELTKRIEGES, DIE AUS DEN WEITEN DES OSTENS
KAMEN
MAHNEN SOLL DIESE STÄTTE
DIE GEWALT ZU VERDAMMEN, DEM HASS ZU
ENTSAGEN
DER VERSÖHNUNG ZU DIENEN
UND DEN FRIEDEN IN FREIHEIT ZU WAHREN"
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Displaced Persons Camps
Coordinators:
Franz Bohn
Sellersville, PA
Anne
Dreer
Guelph,
Ontario
CA
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