Probably very difficult to find any real archival data outside of Russia for this kind of stuff.
The article contains a factual error. Herleshausen is not in East Germany. It was in West Germany. It was one of the border crossing points.
I think the journalist lacked context and misunderstood what Moscow 33 could mean.
Usually, international prisoner mail was handled by the Red Cross, their main office was located in Moscow, but after the Red Cross address in Moscow they also wrote a camp number, to be able to route mail back to the sender. For example, 33 could refer to GULAG Camp n.33 Tambov of the south-western district, Camp n.33 Magnitogorsk of Ural district, Camp n.33 New World of West Siberia district etc.
Many of my husband’s German family ended up in Russian camps and that’s what this sounds like based on others’ comments
This would be way easier had you included the whole article and not just the upper half of it.
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as stated in the article “Moscow 33” denotes a prisoner camp. and since your ancestor was released into east germany this might be helpful:
[https://www.drk-suchdienst.de/en/how-we-help/tracing/second-world-war/prisoners-of-war-and-missing-persons](https://www.drk-suchdienst.de/en/how-we-help/tracing/second-world-war/prisoners-of-war-and-missing-persons)
… “Moscow 33”, the designation for Russian “camps.” … It’s right there in the article.
This has nothing to do with Germany.
Well it says right there – it was most likely a term/code used for mail sorting from the Soviet prison camps.
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Probably very difficult to find any real archival data outside of Russia for this kind of stuff.
The article contains a factual error. Herleshausen is not in East Germany. It was in West Germany. It was one of the border crossing points.
I think the journalist lacked context and misunderstood what Moscow 33 could mean.
Usually, international prisoner mail was handled by the Red Cross, their main office was located in Moscow, but after the Red Cross address in Moscow they also wrote a camp number, to be able to route mail back to the sender. For example, 33 could refer to GULAG Camp n.33 Tambov of the south-western district, Camp n.33 Magnitogorsk of Ural district, Camp n.33 New World of West Siberia district etc.
Many of my husband’s German family ended up in Russian camps and that’s what this sounds like based on others’ comments
This would be way easier had you included the whole article and not just the upper half of it.
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