Oflag 64 Mementos, Artifacts,

and Related Memorabilia

These are just a few of the mementos we’ve received from members of our Oflag 64 family. Some information has not been and may not be uploaded due to the quality of the photos.   We will continue to gather and upload information as time goes by.  If you have other items to contribute, please email us.  


Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far.

KLIM can
POW furnace
Wartime Log title page
Newton Cole collection
Newton Cole collection
Newton Cole collection
Newton Cole collection
Newton Cole collection
Newton Cole collection
Newton Cole collection
Newton Cole collection
Newton Cole collection
Kriegy Newton Cole collection
WWII Museum collection
Kriegy James Forsyth Bible
Kriegy Bob Thompson's Road to Rome
Kriegy Bob Thompson's Italian language guidebook
Kriegy Bob Thompson's translation and pronunciation guide
Oflag 64 Staff Christmas 1944 from the late Kriegy Seymour Bolten's collection
Program for the Day Christmas Day 1944 from the late Kriegy Seymour Bolten's collection
Kriegy Jimmie Kanaya's 1945 Oflag 64 calendar
Kriegy Joseph Zelazny's 1945 Oflag 64 calendar
Warning to all Prisoners of War
POW Warning explanation
Oflag match stick box - made and given to the late Kriegy Isaac E. "Ike" Franklin while at Oflag 64 by a Kriegy of Czech decent. If you know who that might have been, please contact us.
Drawing of Oflag 64 by a British soldier in June 1943
100 Franc note with Oflag 64 Kriegy signatures
100 Franc note with Oflag 64 Kriegy signatures
These are unopened cigar cans that were part of the late Kriegy Orville T. Lowe's collection of artifacts brought home following WWII.
These military uniform buttons were from a collection of the late Kriegy Orville T. Lowe. The attached note refers to them being traded with soldiers of different nationalities and sometimes used as stakes in poker games.
This Poland-USSR map is from the late Kriegy Elmer L. Myers' collection. He escaped from the long march and made his way to Odessa.
POW ID card for ex-prisoners of war from the late Kriegy Elmer L. Myers' collection. The back of the card said it must be retained until collected at the reception camp in the United States.

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