Below are the Kitchener camp group photographs sent in to date (please do let me know if I have missed any!)- plus a couple of Pioneer Corps pictures
We hope you enjoy having a look through these – and don’t forget to contact us if you see anyone you recognise! Families would very much like to know the names of the people around their relatives at this time
If you’d like to see larger versions, please just click on a photograph and you’ll then be able to scroll through larger versions of these pictures
Werner Weissenberg, Refugees at Kitchener Camp – also known as Richborough transit camp, 1939
Werner Weissenberg, back row, third from right
Recognised in the photograph by family, Jakob Lengel, back row, far right
Werner Weissenberg, Refugees at Kitchener Camp – also known as Richborough transit camp, 1939
Recognised in the photograph by family, Jakob Lengel, back row, far left
Kitchener camp, 1939 Georg Benjamin, kneeling
Kitchener camp, 1939 Georg Benjamin, left
Kitchener camp, 1939 Georg Benjamin, front left
Kitchener camp, 1939 Georg Benjamin, second row back, centre
Walter Brill; playing cards in the British army; Second World War
Walter Brill and friend; Kitchener camp hut, 1939
Pioneer Corps, Moses Mordko Scherzer, 1940
Kitchener camp, Willi Reissner army photograph, 1939/40
Kitchener camp, Hans Friedmann, 1939
Kitchener camp, Hans Friedmann, 1939
Hans is seated on the front row of the photograph above, third from the left, with a cap on. The family of Richard Cohn have recognised their uncle standing in the back row, on the left.
Inmates of Kitchener camp, Hut 8; Herbert Finkelstein fourth from the left
Herbert Nachmann, 7th from the right, with friends from the Berlin ORT, in Leeds,
Herbert Nachmann, far left, with members from the Berlin ORT school
Kitchener camp, 1939, Hans Friedrich Elias, with his brother Eduard Elias
Recognised in the photograph by family, Hans Einziger, third from the left, wearing spectacles
Kitchener camp, 1939, Hugo Heilbrunn, front row far right, outside Hut 32
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The photographs are shown in no particular order, by the way – the software generates how they are presented and if you renew the page they will probably turn up in a different order again.
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It’s fascinating to be getting the hut numbers coming through on these photographs, and if you do spot the hut your relative was in, you can get an idea of where that hut was in the camp layout by scrolling down the extracts from a hand-drawn map of the camp, on this page: https://kitchenercamp.co.uk/kitchener-camp-2/
