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Luttensee to the Pionierkaserne, February 1947

Luttensee Camp, Mittenwald → Pionierkaserne, Mittenwald

Ukrainian families at Luttensee found the camp hard to live in under a Russian administration whose signs and announcements were in Russian, and petitioned UNRRA for the almost empty Pionier barracks in the valley. The move was granted in February 1947 and the camp choir went down with them. Luttensee itself did not close, and a December 1947 return still counted 863 Ukrainians there.

Summer 1946

Russian residents take over the camp administration and Ukrainian families arrive from the liquidated camps at Oberdorf and Füssen

Sources

Wolodymyr Sijak, Camp Pionierkaserne in Mittenwald

End of January 1947

An eyewitness places the departure of most Ukrainian residents at the end of January

Sources

Yurij Kuzmycz, The Road to Camp Luttensee

February 1947

The Ukrainian delegation is granted the right to move into the Pionier barracks and the Ukrainians are transferred

Sources

Ivan Rad, Cultural Activity in Camp Luttensee and Pionierkaserne

Wolodymyr Sijak, Camp Pionierkaserne in Mittenwald

February 1947

The Luttensee choir continues at the Pionierkaserne, reduced to fewer than twenty voices

Sources

Ivan Rad, Cultural Activity in Camp Luttensee and Pionierkaserne

December 1947

A population return still records 863 Ukrainians at Luttensee

Sources

Population migration after World War II, Table 7

Documents

Sources

Wolodymyr Sijak, Camp Pionierkaserne in Mittenwald

Yurij Kuzmycz, The Road to Camp Luttensee

Ivan Rad, Cultural Activity in Camp Luttensee and Pionierkaserne

Population migration after World War II, Table 7