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| All Places | Dorf Waldorf Village, Upper Selicia |
| Notes | My father was a British pow during ww2. We went to Poland in October 2009 with him hoping to find the farm that he worked on at that time, but we could not find it. His main camp was Stallag xxa in Torun, and for 2 years he was working on a Potatoe farm. During the war it was run by a German man called Emil Janke who was married with children. The farm was next to a large church, and the building he slept in was near that church and could have been an old dairy at one time. The cemetary for the church was not in the church grounds but down the street. A railway line ran a few miles from the village and farm. The latest clue we have is that the escape at Zagan took place about 30 to 50 miles away from the village as all the prisoners were locked up for a number of days after the escape. He also thinks that the area was in Upper Selicia. My father thinks that the village was called Dorf Waldorf which may have been the German name of course. I know that this is a little vague, but he would really like to find the relatives of the farm and thank them for the help they gave him and the other prisoners during his time there. If you have any ideas at all or could point me in the right direction i would so thankful. My father was 91 this month and though he has been back to Poland in the past, he failed to find the farm. Thank you very much for reading this. |