# Feeling "displaced" / DPs: Schicksale, Tagebücher u.ä

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**Created:** [31. Januar 2025 um 12:42 UTC](https://talk.arolsen-archives.org/t/feeling-displaced-dps-schicksale-tagebuecher-u-ae/25874 "2025-01-31T12:42:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [31. Januar 2025 um 12:42 UTC](https://talk.arolsen-archives.org/t/feeling-displaced-dps-schicksale-tagebuecher-u-ae/25874/1 "2025-01-31T12:42:46Z")

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_[edit]_  
_Titel geändert. – Weitere Beiträge sind wie immer willkommen!_  
_Title adjusted. - Further contributions are welcome, as always!_

Feeling „displaced“ –  
DP memoirs, diaries, fates and more.  
_Sich „fehl am Platze“ fühlen -_  
_DPs und ihre Erinnerungen, Geschichten, Schicksale und mehr._

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_(English below)_  
Zur Zeit gibt es viele DP3 Karten, in denen das DP camp „Kassel-Mattenberg“ erwähnt wird.  
(in Nordhessen, nicht weit von Bad Arolsen)  
Hier ein ganz persönlicher Bericht, eine Art Tagebuch von [Jonas MEKAS](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Mekas) (\* 1922; litauisch-amerikanischer Filmregisseur, Autor und Kurator.)  
Während seiner Odyssee war er auch als DP in Kassel-Mattenberg untergebracht.  
(im Rahmen eines documenta.14- Projekts - leider nur in Englisch gefunden)

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At the moment there are many DP3 cards in which the DP camp „Kassel-Mattenberg“ is mentioned. (in northern Hesse, not far from Bad Arolsen)  
Here is a very personal report, a kind of diary by [Jonas MEKAS (](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Mekas)\* 1922; a Lithuanian-American film director, author and curator.)  
During his odyssey he also spent some time as a DP in Kassel-Mattenberg .  
(as part of a documenta-14 project, language: English)

> **[I Had Nowhere to Go](https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/39_i_had_nowhere_to_go)**

Jonas MEKAS’ [documents in the Arolsen online archive](https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search?s=jonas%20mekas)

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**Author:** ![mally](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/talk.arolsen-archives.org/mally/32/37511_2.png) [@mally](https://talk.arolsen-archives.org/u/mally)\
**Post date:** [15. August 2026 um 11:54 UTC](https://talk.arolsen-archives.org/t/feeling-displaced-dps-schicksale-tagebuecher-u-ae/25874/2 "2026-08-15T11:54:10Z")

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I hope it fits the thread.

**Ukrainian DP camp at the Somme Kaserne in Augsburg**  
Based on the DP card of [Irene Twerdochlib](https://talk.arolsen-archives.org/t/irina-twerdochlib-nee-banach-ukrainian/36659), shared by @velthove1, I found some information about the DP camp Somme Kaserne in Augsburg (her son was born there in 1946).

[Born 1946 - in the Ukrainian DP camp at the Somme Kaserne in Augsburg](https://www.geschichtsagentur-augsburg.de/media/files/geboren-1946-broschuere2.pdf) - PDF

[Interview with Roman Korol (2015) English](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaxtXt3CEm4) - youtube

[Ukrainian DP camp in Augsburg, Germany – film clip from 1947](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqUPf2DAq-s) - youtube