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The Nearly Everybody Oflag 64’s Home Reads The ITEM Newspaper “Get Wise – ITEM-ize” 2nd Quarter 2020 Good Ole USA Of Undetermined Worth Editor/Printing and Mailing Elodie Caldwell 2731 TERRY AVE LONGVIEW WA 98632-4437 [email protected] Treasurer Bret Job th 2801 SW 46 ST CAPE CORAL FL 33914-6026 [email protected] Webmaster/Blogger Bill Caldwell 2731 TERRY AVE Drawing by Jim Bickers, shown without barbed wire fences or guard towers LONGVIEW WA 98632-4437 [email protected] Dear Oflag 64 Family, Contributors to this issue We are always trying to figure out ways to best serve the members of our Oflag Claire Anderson Bowlby Cindy Sharpe Burgess 64 Family. The ITEM has been published for many, many years with the intent of Glenn Burgess providing news about our Kriegies or updates to previous stories told about them. Tom Cobb Sometimes we reprint stories because of their general interest to others. And Susanna Bolten Connaughton sometimes we report on activities related to our Kriegies, such as reunions or trips Andrea Fisher to Szubin. In more recent issues we have also provided information about the Judy Casner Fletcher Lucine Juskalian future museum, information about the Polish-American Foundation and Anne Hoskot Kreutzer information about “Friends of Oflag 64”, the non-profit supporting the Foundation, Rosa Di Francesco Lee along with related requests and forms. Marlene Thompson McAllister Ginger Baldwin Montuoro In the past, we have arranged the ITEM in various ways hoping to generate Ann Rogers interest in one thing and another at a particular time but feel that the current Dave Stewart arrangement is how it needs to be. Company Business will always come first Pat Thompson Paul Thriffiley III followed by Mail Call, Kriegy News and Information, TAPS, and a modified Pat Waters Publications page. The major portion of the Publications section has now been Judy Whorley Winkle moved to our website. Not to diminish the importance or interest of the materials Nancy Thompson Wyatt by their placement in the ITEM, Foundation and Friends information will occupy Jan Daniluk-Advisor the last part of our ITEM. For ease in clipping out related forms that need to be jan.daniluk@szubinpowcamps. returned, that seemed to be the best. Please check pages 16-20 for their updates. org Mariusz Winiecki-Advisor We hope you understand our reasoning and will be able to navigate through future mariusz.winiecki@szubinpowcamp ITEMs with ease, knowing where everything will be placed. s.org Our best to you always, ! We apologize to any others we Elodie/Bill Caldwell may have overlooked but thank all who have contacted us. ITEM Editor/Webmaster www.oflag64.us NOTE: The Oflag 64 Remembered website and the Post Oflag 64 ITEM are independent entitles and do not operate under the auspices of any other organization. Fund Donations You can also access the donation The Artifacts Committee working page on the new Polish-American as part of “Friends”, the non- There is now more than one way Foundation website at: profit, would like to thank all who to contribute to Oflag 64 related http://www.szubinpowcamps.org have contributed artifacts and funds. /en/foundation/u-s-501-c-3 any write-ups to date. The artifacts are definitely telling a For contributions to These funds are separate from the story and will be great additions the Postage Fund Postage Fund and will be used to to the future museum. ONLY, which help support the new Museum in covers the cost of various ways. If you would like to help with mailing the printed ITEM to our writing Bios or researching our THANKS to all who have so very remaining Kriegies or their Kriegies, please contact Dave generously donated widows, please make your checks Stewart at [email protected]. to our various Oflag payable to Oflag 64 Postage There is always work to do and Fund, and send them to: 64 funds over time. the researchers would love your help. Bret Job Researching Records 2801 SW 46th St Look for artifact descriptions Oflag 64 Remembered and the Cape Coral FL 33914-6026 being posted on the Friends of Artifacts Committee are involved Oflag 64, Inc. website at: in records research for the future OR https://friendsofoflag64.org/artifacts museum. Currently they are Elodie Caldwell creating Kriegy Bios and writing Check for other information 2731 Terry Ave artifact descriptions. regarding our Kriegies to be Longview WA 98632-4437 posted to the Foundation website Kriegy Bios at: Donation Thanks To If you have a Bio that has already http://www.szubinpowcamps.org/en/ LUCINE JUSKALIAN been written about your Kriegy, in memory of her late husband they would love to have a copy. If Historical Information George Juskalian not, they can help you create one. and Feedback Are and to To write the Bios, the Committee Always Welcome ANNETTE SECOR NELSON requests Kriegy early-life photos, all WWII active-duty photos, If you have anything to submit Friends of Oflag 64, Inc., our later-life photos, as well as for print in the ITEM, please nonprofit, offers another way to stories of capture and camp life. contact Elodie Caldwell at make monetary donations but Digital scans of original photos, [email protected]. Digital scans ONLY for the future Museum in obituaries, gravestones, other of original photos or anything Szubin. For contributions to this documents, and unit patches or that can be sent in .jpg or .png fund only, please write your crests will be accepted for writing format works great. If you are checks and send them to the the Bios. unable to scan photos, I would be following address: glad to scan them and send them Artifacts back to you. Documents can also Friends of Oflag 64, Inc. If you have already donated be sent in .pdf format. 12768 Turberville Lane artifacts, the Committee will Suggestions are always welcome. Oak Hill, VA 20171-2214 write artifact descriptions for OR each of them (with your help If you notice Oflag 64 website to donate ONLINE, visit the regarding information about the errors, omissions, or links that “Friends” new website at: artifacts). The artifacts and don’t work properly, please https://friendsofoflag64.org/cont write-ups will eventually be used contact Bill Caldwell at: act-us in displays in the future museum. [email protected] 2 Marilyn Kanners Beckham, daughter of the late appreciates being able to learn more. Greg, Kriegy Victor Kanners, wrote that she is the thank you for the information you shared about person to contact for copies of her dad’s diary. your dad. We are continually amazed at what our Please see the Publications section in this ITEM Kriegies accomplished after the war. And thank for her contact information. She also mentioned you for giving us permission to use his VHP files. that she’s going through her dad’s papers and will send us anything applicable. Thank you, Marilyn, Ellsworth Cundiff Jr., son of the late Kriegy for contacting us about your dad’s diary. Also, we Ellsworth Cundiff Sr., recently wrote that he has look forward to anything related to Oflag 64 that several original ITEMs, photos, his dad’s ID card, you’d like to share. diary, and shoes. He mentioned that his dad was in the camp hospital when the camp was Cindy Sharpe Burgess, daughter of evacuated so he got to keep many items when Kriegy Wilbur “Bill” Sharpe, has been the Russians liberated the camp. He has agreed in touch with one of our Kriegy to donate most if not all of these artifacts. descendants, Andrea Fisher, who is Ellsworth, this is wonderful. Thank you for your the granddaughter of the late Kriegy generous donation of artifacts. We’re continually Austin “Pete” Knapp. Cindy shared amazed at what our Kriegies were able to keep that Austin’s diary lists all the guys in Room 9 with them throughout the war. which included her dad. Andrea subsequently shared the list with Cindy. See the Kriegy News Tom Detmers, son of the late Kriegy Arthur and Information section. Great to make family Detmers, wrote regarding his father’s war connections, not only learning who belongs to mementos and donating them to our future whom, but connecting with others in our Oflag 64 museum. Tom, thank you for your willingness to family. Thanks Cindy for sharing your contact donate the mementos. The Artifacts Committee with Andrea with us. will definitely be happy to receive them. Glenn Burgess, son-in-law of Terry Dooley, son of the late Kriegy Joseph Wilbur “Bill” Sharpe, is the Dooley, sent a copy of two newspaper articles webmaster of the Friends of Oflag containing information about his dad. One story 64, Inc. website. was actually published in a 2019 ITEM, but in a https://friendsofoflag64.org/home different format. We attempted to insert the “Friends” is the non-profit group photocopies of the actual newspaper articles in supporting the Polish-American Foundation for this issue but they weren’t readable. Terry, thank the Commemoration of POW Camps in SZubin. you for being willing to share the articles with us. http://www.szubinpowcamps.org/en/ We apologize for not being able to enhance them Glenn sends us information from time to time as for use in this ITEM. he researches information for the “Friends” website. See the Kriegy News and Information Evie Dunbar, widow of the late section for his recent find. Thank you, Glenn, for Kriegy Alan Dunbar, wrote that she the photo of John Creech in his greenhouse at has recently moved and is Oflag 64. Thankfully, John was able to contribute adjusting to new surroundings.