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Polen-Georg from Lahde

The photo was taken in the Displace Persons’ Camp in Lahde on the Weser. The Polish boy with the ball was called "Georg". His real name was probably Jurek. Nothing more is known of him. On the photo (l. to r.): Reinhard Humke, Georg, Heinrich Humke, Henry Holzberger and Winfried Limbach.

Georg the Pole (holding the ball) with his German team mates in Lahde 1947.
Georg the Pole (holding the ball) with his German team mates in Lahde 1947.
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Heinrich Humke, Lahde

This photo comes from Heinrich Humke’s private archive in Lahde (Petershagen). Heinrich Humke still has strong memories of playing football with a Polish boy named Georg. The games mostly took place on empty streets that had been cleared of war rubble. The left half of the fence to the Jumke’s home in Lahde (today: Bahnhofsstr. 56; then house number 204), was used as a goal. Lahde is now a part of the town of Petershagen.

Heinrich Humke’s father, also called Heinrich, was a construction engineer who specialised in building bridges and sluices. The family moved from one building site to the next. Heinrich Humke also worked on the construction of the famous Oberland canal in East Prussia, a sluice in Minden; and the extension to the legendary Vistula Bridge in Dirschau near Danzig (now Tczew), that linked Danzig to East Prussia.

 

Jacek Barski

Georg the Pole (holding the ball) with his German team mates in Lahde 1947.
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Heinrich Humke, Lahde
Media library

  • House Humke in Lahde 2

    The left-hand section of the fence was used as a goal for children playing football.

  • Vistula bridge near Dirschau

    Today Tczew. View of Künzendorf.

  • Lahde 1945-1949
    In German. With numerous texts, documents, photos and eyewitness accounts from the "Polish period" in Lahde.
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