Memories of German refugees from Schlesien of the camp Elsterhorst

 
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Memories of gentleman Karl Zwiener out Langenbielau

 

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"... . Family Zwiener was driven out under similar circumstances with the Germans from Langenbielau. Karl Zwiener tells it in such a way: "first all Germans were registered. Then men with lists, the answer came gave, who came to the row. To 21.8.1946 the man with the list came to us and said that we would have to appear ourselves on the next morning at 7 o'clock before our house. We made everything by right. On the next morning it poured. We stood from 7 to 9 o'clock on the road, the rain continued all day long. At noon we arrived at realm brook, where we got a railroad car number. We went in the afternoon through "control". It "was konfisziert" again much. One took away only one umbrella from us, because we had only abgebrauchte things. Then it went to the station. There we waited again in the rain to 19 o'clock then came the course when inviting the luggage from Poland still luggage items under the railroad cars were pulled away. At night at 2 o'clock drove off the course. In Sorau the course stood three days. To 2. Day young Bur, under it also I, was gotten for coal loading. When the course drove off after three days at night from Sorau, it was said, we comes into the Russian zone. At noon we were counted at the delivery place on the basis lists and about 20 people, which had in-smuggled themselves, were exhausted. Then it went to forest, which already lay in the Russian zone. In the evening we drove off. On the next morning we reached o'clock Hoyerswerda at 7, where we came into the quarantine camp Elsterhorst. It seized about 15 ooo humans. There was also a department for 20,000 German prisoners, those with stacheldraht from us was separate."
The stay in this camp took about 4 weeks. The refugees were 3 time entlaust in short time intervals. To meals 5 persons received 1 bread, 5 essloeffel sugar, 2.5 l soup per day. In the 4 weeks their stays were not allowed they the camp to leave. Then family kept Zwiener of papers finite with the answer that they would come to Wurzen into Saxonia. They reached Wurzen in the morning to 27.9.46 at 7 o'clock... "