22nndd qquuaarrtteerr 22001177 Editor/Printing and Mailing Elodie Caldwell 2731 TERRY AVE LONGVIEW WA 98632-4437 [email protected] Treasurer Bret Job 4240 TRAIL RIDGE LN MINNETONKA MN 55345-2254 [email protected] Webmaster Bill Caldwell 2731 TERRY AVE Oflag 64 Reenactment LONGVIEW WA 98632-4437 [email protected] ‘Living History – Oflag 64’ Dear Oflag 64 Family, Contributors to this issue Cindy & Glenn Burgess Come one, come all!! If you are interested in attending the Oflag 64 Susanna Connaughton Reenactment, “ Living History – Oflag 64”, that will take place Susan Dana Saturday, September 16 in Szubin Poland; please see the poster with Susan Hinds Harms more information on page 15 of this ITEM. Marlene McAllister Jefferson Waful via Mariusz A group trip has not been planned, but there is a group of individuals David Weinstein and couples going already who plan to meet up after they arrive. Mariusz Winiecki [email protected] If you would like to participate also, please let us know ASAP so we can coordinate not only with each other but with those in Poland who Thank you for your valued input!! are working on the project. This is history in the making. ! Thanks and Best to you, Elodie and Bill Caldwell at [email protected] AA lliittttllee ccoommppaannyy bbuussiinneessss Postage Fund Donors THANK YOUII THANKS to all who have generously donated to On behalf of Mariusz Winiecki, we send MANY the postage and/or reunion funds. Without such THANKS to Monica Bishara who translated, from thoughtful contributions, mailing the ITEM and French to English, Red Cross visitor records from other materials or information would not be Oflag XXIB before it became Oflag 64. These were possible. from 1940-1942. Many hours were spent by her on this project and the information gained has been Jimmie and Lynn Kanaya very valuable. Annette Nelson Ted Roggen HELP REQUESTED Sid Thal & An Anonymous Donor Monica is unable to continue translating the If you would like to contribute, please make your remaining documents at this time, so again, on check payable to Oflag 64 Postage Fund and mail behalf of Mariusz, we are requesting assistance your donation to: from anyone who can translate French documents to English. These are from the years 1942-1945. Bret Job or Elodie Caldwell One document has 6 pages to be translated, 4240 Trail Ridge Ln 2731 Terry Ave another document has 22 pages to be translated. Minnetonka MN Longview WA Please contact us at the email address below or 55345-2554 98632-4437 Mariusz at the email address on the front page of this ITEM if you are able to assist in this effort. Merci Beaucoup Best to you, Elodie and Bill Caldwell at [email protected] If you have anything to submit for print in the ITEM, please contact Elodie at the contact address on the front page of this publication. If you send photos, digital scans of original photos or anything that can be sent in .jpg format, that works great. If you are unable to scan photos, I would be glad to scan the originals and send them back to you. Documents can also be sent in .pdf format. Thank you very much. Also, if you notice errors or omissions, or find links that don’t work properly, please let us know at [email protected]. Thank you for your patience with this sometimes slow process. 2 Guy Aceto (from the World War II Magazine) artists drawn together by a recently found our website and asked to be common bond of military service. added to our email list. He also asked for some Their purpose is to review high-resolution copies of photos on our website. written works of its members, so We were able to accommodate his request and after looking through a asked him to give credit to our Oflag 64 compilation of book reviews, Association. Guy, thank you for contacting us. they selected among several for their Spring We welcome you to our Oflag 64 Association 2017 Reading List, Steven’s book entitled The and have added you to our email list as Road to War: Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture requested. We hope the photos were helpful to which includes details and information from the you. late Kriegy William Frodsham’s diary. Thanks so much Steven for sending this information and Gail Brown (daughter of the late congratulations on this honor. With so much kriegy “Brad” Bradford) wrote work going into writing, it’s great to be recently and shared that she recognized for your achievements. Keep up the always had fond memories of good work. Herm Littman from reunions. She then included news of her Cindy and Glenn marriage to Steve. Some of you will remember Burgess (daughter and Gail from past reunions. She wrote: “Steve and I son-in-law of Kriegy were married this past summer at Fripp Island, Wilbur “Bill” Sharpe) South Carolina where our family has vacationed have written a number of for nearly 20 years. We were there with my son, times recently. They daughter, their spouses and the 6 grandkids; we wrote that “Bill” was a good friend of the late totally surprised them by getting "hitched" on the Kriegy Len Feldman and that he wanted to get in beach…We wrote the vows ourselves, gave contact with Len’s nephew, David Weinstein. each little kid a part to read of the service and Glenn, in a later email wrote: When David didn't even need a clergy person or officiant to Weinstein was here interviewing Bill a week or pull it off in South Carolina……We did have the so ago, we all went to the World War II Memorial marriage license notarized, though, and we did in DC. While there I took the attached picture of pay our $98.00 in cash! They were absolutely Bill and Cindy in front of the Indiana state blown away that we could pull it off without their plaque. As you probably know Bill was in the input! No muss, no fuss and no bridesmaid Indiana National Guard which federalized dresses! Perfect! We had a picnic on the beach following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The rest is afterwards, with champagne, fried chicken from history. Bill was wearing his POW cap. There the grocery, ribs from a restaurant and a cake all sorts of kids there on class trips. When they with frosting that was a tad sandy! We spent the recognized that Bill was not only a WWII veteran winter in Florida…are heading for Ireland on but also a former POW, many of them lined up June 2.” Wow, Gail, what amazing and to shake his hand and thank him for his service. wonderful news!! How fun to celebrate on the It was truly heartwarming and renewed my faith beach and create wonderful memories with in the younger generation. See the Kriegy News family. Thanks for the updates. It’s always good and Information section for the photo. In a to hear from you. Hope your Ireland trip was separate email, relating to the reenactment, fantastic. Cindy spoke of her Dad’s involvement with the music selection part of the event and his Steven Burgauer (author and friend of Oflag eagerness to do what he could to help. Thanks 64) sent some information from the Military very much Cindy and Glenn for writing and for Writers Society of America which is an sending photos. So much going in in our lives, organization of hundreds of writers, poets, and 3 sometimes it’s hard to keep up. We appreciate Kay Cruise (daughter of the late all the information you’ve shared. Kriegy James Godfrey) wrote a few days ago with the sad news Susanna Connaughton that her husband, her best friend, (daughter of the late Kriegy had just passed away. He had Seymour Bolten) as you may been suffering from several health remember from previous ITEMs issues but was in good spirits to the end. He has been gathering information lived a wonderful and fulfilling life with Kay and for a book she is writing about the family. You can read his obituary here: her father’s war experiences. She has come http://heafeyheafey.com/anthony-john-tony-cruise/ across several things since our last ITEM. One Kay, we are deeply saddened at the news of was a partially readable copy of a handwritten Tony’s passing. We send our heartfelt note by Jack Rathbone on some information condolences to you along with our thoughts and about Susanna’s dad’s (and 3 others) trial for prayers. May you be blessed with the support of “obstruction of the 3rd Reich”. We sent out a those around you. We know he will be greatly request for a better copy and Julie Gionfriddo, missed. Jack’s daughter, answered Susanna’s request. Susanna said she had a nice telephone Susan Dana (daughter of the late conversation with Julie and a delightful email Kriegy Herman Littman) wrote to exchange with Kriegy John Rodgers. Since that tell us of the passing of her dear time, we have received a few other bits of Dad. He had fallen a couple of information along with a photo which is included times and suffered different in the Kriegy News and Information section of injuries with their associated this ITEM. It’s a particularly interesting photo of problems, which required her Dad, Dr. Floyd Burgeson, Father Stanley hospitalization. Within a few days of his last Brach, and Russian General Alexander Kotikow hospitalization he was admitted to Hospice taken in 1945. Susanna, thanks so much for House in Bellingham WA where he passed your contributions of information and photos.