1945 — DP Camps in Germany

  • 1945 – Wladyslaw DP Registration
  • UNRRA DP Camps in Germany (1945)
  • IRO DP Camps in U.S. Zone, Germany (1948)
  • Camp Luitpold (Dillingen) Currency
  • Dillingen in 1939
  • Oct. 14, 1945 – Wladyslaw (rt.) in Dillingen age 14
  • Oct. 14 1945 – back
  • 1946 – Wladyslaw (ctr.) in Dillingen
  • 1946 – Wladyslaw (ctr.) in Dillingen – back
  • 1946 – Wladyslaw (2nd from rt.) in Dillingen
  • 1946 – Wladyslaw (left)
  • 1946 – Wladyslaw (rt.) volleyball team
  • 1946 – Wladyslaw (rt.) volleyball team
  • 1946 – Wladyslaw DP Camp Registration
  • 1947? – Wladyslaw age 16
  • May 2, 1947 – Wladyslaw (3rd from rt.) Ingolstadt Trade School
  • May 2, 1947 – back
  • Wladyslaw (center, blurred) and Milkolaj (rt) in Classroom
  • 1947 – Wladslaw (back ctr.) Ingolstadt Trade School Class
  • 1947? – Wladyslaw and Mikolaj
  • 1947? – Wladyslaw, Janina, Mikolaj, Maria, and Justyna (seated)
October 1945 — By this time, the Parfomuk family had transferred from Nördlingen to a Polish Displaced Persons (DP) camp — Camp Luitpold in Dillingen, Germany. The DP camps were initially administered by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). In July 1947, the International Refugee Organization (IRO) started taking over the administration of the camps.

The move to Dillingen was the first of several transfers within Germany over the next 4 years for the Parfomuks, as smaller camps closed and consolidated and many refugees refused to return to their “home” countries, now under Soviet control. The Parfomuk family also spent time in the DP Camp in Augsburg and, later, Ingolstadt, where Wladyslaw attended a trade school established for DPs. Although UNRRA and the IRO very aggressively pursued a policy of repatriation, Nikifor and his family refused to go back to post-war Belarus (formerly Poland) for fear of Soviet reprisals–likely execution.

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