European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Boguslav and Gerda Kulka. They met in ludwigs Burg in 1949 and have tried several times for permission to emigrate to the states Wes Wix. Go children at the ludwigs Burg Camp learn to count As they sing. There Are some 300 inhabitants in the German do  99 father Rob Styn spiritual Leader Vyas interned at Dachau for five years. I family quarters Are Small but comfortable. Some Dps have even been Able to buy cars. Piotr Wereszko in Camps for almost 20 years raises rabbits and chickens. By Henry  Kraft staff writer Josef Claudel wearing leather put tees and looking like an old time Leader of polish cavalry twisted his Long bristling mustaches and glared fiercely although his words spoken softly belied the ferocity of his expression. I must be Happy Here he said. There is nothing  Claudel could be 50 years old or 70, take your Choice. Those mustaches his Sharp penetrating eyes and his general appearance might Bash those who Don know him but his friends say he is at heart a gentle kindly Man. He is a Dis placed person. There Are Many More like Josef Claudel who live in a Camp just a Stone s throw from the sprawling american housing area m Pattonville just outside ludwigs Burg Germany. The Camp is a converted army Barracks Laid out like a Village and might indeed resemble a Small town somewhere in Poland. Tit is a place of Hopes and dreams. There Are 300 or so inhabitants of do  of the men were taken from their Homes in Poland to serve As slave labourer by nazis but they have refused to permit adversity to destroy those dreams. What do they Hope for scores look hopefully across the sea to the . There is a future for us if we can get there sail one Man. What do some of them dream of Amend to red tyranny and a return to the Homes in Poland some of them have not seen for 15 years. Josef Claudel is one of the dreamers. His wife and two daughters were killed in the Ukraine he said. He came to the do Camp in 1944. How or Why he would not  i can sleep in a bed quietly but in Poland Well if you go to bed Youdon t know if you will Jivaka up he said. He receives 82 Marks a month about $20 from the German welfare office. He lives in a single room and All he pays for selectric Light. But Claudel gets by. The quarters the families occupy Are Small indeed. There Are an average of two rooms to each apartment bedroom and combination Kitchen and living room. Both Are Small but some Aie fairly Well furnished and exude something of an air of Comfort. Many families. Own cars. Those who can work have jobs and those who cannot because they May be suffering from lung fever or other illnesses receive welfare  Little Home has a Garden in front of it scrupulously attended each budding lower nurtured and if there is a truck Garden it receives the same attention Asif it were an important farm. Some raise chickens like Josef Hendre sew ski who just bought 100 Chicks from Denmark. He has a Job As fireman. His two children a boy and girl aged 6 and 14, go to school. For his Small quarters repays 14 Marks about $3.50 a month. The Gestapo came to his Home in Poland one Day during world War ii and shipped him to Germany. There is a gnawing hunger in his heart for the land of his birth. He would rather return there than go to the . If Poland were free. The stars and stripes the stars and stripes yen Sendewicz has been in the Camp since 1942. His wife is named Maria an they have a girl of 12. The Gestapo sent him to Germany too Back in 42, and he s been at the Camp since then. He too would like to return to a free Poland but if he had a Chance to go to the . Would he go his eyes shone. In polish he exclaimed the equivalent of and How Sendewicz has been trying to get to . But they always ask me about my health. I must be healthy. I change tire Sand do heavy  he is employed in a garage in Pattonville scores of the inhabitants of do Tow have had what they Call lung  most have already recovered from it others Are convalescing. They said their health suffered from Lack of proper food poor Homes living in cold Barracks or tents during the dark years before the americans came and liberated them in 1945. Piotr Wereszko who has been in Camps for 20 years said he was in a Hospital for four years. It was the americans who supplied medicines for me and others when they came he said. He is still unable to work. He was a polish Soldier and one of the first prisoners of War  lives with his wife Anna a latvian receives a welfare allowance an raises chickens and huge rabbits. He wants to go to America but his sickness prevent that he said. In 1941 Boguslav Kulka was a polish student of 18. One Day the nazis close the schools in his Home town grabbed him and others and shipped him to a farm i Germany. His pay was 25 Marks a month. In 1949 he met the woman he was to marrying ludwigs Burg where she worked for americans. Today Kulka has a Job in a Stuttgart garage and Gerda his wife works for special services in ludwigs Burg As a Secretary. Mrs. Kulka has a son by a previous marriage who lives with them. He is 17. And Hopes to be a Baker. We have tried five times to get Permis Sion to emigrate to the states said mrs. Kulka and we Are still  and so they live with their frustrated Hopes still trying to make something out of lives disrupted by the  Rev. Dekan Ignacy Rab Styn spiritual Leader of do town was in Dacha for five years he said. It was the americans who opened the doors of Freedom for us said the Catholic priest. However he added quietly about 2,000 polish priests died in Dachau before that  father Rab Styn supervises 16 of the 36 do Camps and chapels in the Wuerttemberg area. He has lived in do town for 14  those in the displaced persons Camp the Story of father Rab Styn is an old an familiar one. He was Condi urling services one sunday when the Gestapo drove Upin trucks entered the Church and seized every Able bodied Man. Then they took him along some Day said one of the displaced persons some Day we will go  Page 13