The DP Camp, Today

I wrote earlier that Commenter Di had sent current photos of the Seligenstadt Displaced Persons camp. Here are those images, with Commenter Di's descriptions:

 
This photo "shows the orange sign erected by the company which now uses the farm. It is called KWS, short for Kleinwanzlebener Saatzucht, a plant breeding and seed producing company based in Einbeck, Germany. At Seligenstadt it has run a Breeding Station since 1946 (according to what I have read)."
 

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This image "shows the entrance pillars to the farm."
 

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"The building straight ahead on the left-hand side contains the office where visitors are greeted."
 

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"Opposite the building with the office you see this view. There are buildings on all four sides of a kind of yard with these lovely chestnut trees in the centre." (Here's Mom standing outside of that building.)
 

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"Turning left after the gates you get the view with the car parked on the left."

 

Thanks to Commenter Di for making these photos available to us.

Remembrance

 

Commenter Di—who lives in Seligenstadt—has sent some photos of how the area around the Displaced Persons camp looks today. Here is a photo of a plaque erected at the camp in memory of the Displaced Persons who lived there. Both my Mom and Mr. Irene's Dad stayed at the Seligenstadt Camp between 1945 and 1949.

 

Commenter Di translates: "1945-1949. 1200 Lithuanians lived in the Seligenstadt Camp. Almighty God, we beseech you to bless and protect us throughout all the vicissitudes of our exiled existence, far from our home country. In this location Lithuanians were gathered together who loved God and their native land above everything. In Remembrance 7. January 1993." Di does not know who erected the plaque. The plaque features the Lithuanian coat of arms, the Vytis.

 

Thanks to Commenter Di for making this photo available to us. (I'll post more of Commenter Di's photos soon.)