The Encounter of the People of Austria with US Soldiers after
World War II
An Austrian-American Dialogue
The Encounter of the People of Austria with US Soldiers after
World War II
An Austrian-American Dialogue
Who is my father?
Who knows Wally Walochowa?
Who knows Grigory Sniker?
I just accidently found this site, it's so interesting to me. I was born in Ansbach Germany in March of 1946. My mother was a Ukrainian girl (Nadia Zachowaewa) who at the age of 17 was taken from her home to a forced labor camp in Lauf Germany, where she stayed till the end of the war when the Americans liberated that camp.
In 1950 she came to America with me, she married , the man adopted me, and I was led to believe he was my genetic father. My mother died in 1987, then my father died in 1991, that when I found my adoption papers in his possessions. None if my parents friends knew this. I asked them all. I wrote to the newspapers in Ansbach and Nurenburg Germany. They published the stories. To my surprise I got a response from a man that was 11 years old when I was born, his name is Hans, he remembered my mother and my birth. He even had a picture of me as a baby. His mother was best friends with the couple that had taken my mother in when she was pregnant with me. (They are now dead).
Hans remembers my mother taking about who my father was. He said that when the Americans Liberated the camp in Lauf, they took all the women to another camp in Nurenburg, called Langewasser, during the war it was a SS camp with American POW's, but when the war was over it became a American camp with SS POW's. In this camp was a hospital, my mother worked there, and that is where she met a wounded member of the Liebstandart, the first division of the Waffen SS. There she became pregnant with me. She told the people whe lived with that they fell in love, but because of the circumstances of the time she knew she would not see him again. Hans also said that this soldier sent her to his parents home, but they had turned her away.
I found a picture of a German Soldier in the Leibstandare uniform in my mothers possessions, I believe this is my father, because he looks just like my oldest son.
I Believe that there might be a list of inmates of this camp in Langewasser, because there were only about 1, 500 men detained there, and they were SS. I have been searching but keep coming to a dead end. Also, maybe there is a American soldier that was there at the time that might remember something.
I am also searching for 2 people that were on some old document that I found, at exacty the time I was born, one was my godmother and my mothers cousin (who my mother never mentioned to me. Her name was Wally Walochowa. The other was a Grigory Sniker. He was 21 at the time. I found records in the town, they said he left town to go to another American duty station. But nothing else.
Nell Drengacz
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