Displaced Persons Camps Carinthia (Kärnten)

This page is a work in progress with ongoing research. We aim to include as many details as we can confirm for the Displaced Persons camps that were in Kärnten/Carinthia in the post WWII British Zone of Austria.

Feffernitz and Kellerberg
The Stadtarchiv Spittal an der Drau has confirmed they hold records from the Feffernitz / Kellerberg Camp. If you’d like us to also look for you or your family’s record, please contact us hello@projectancestry.com . For updates, see below in the Spittal camp section.

Feffernitz Refugee Cemetery / Flüchtlingsfriedhof Feffernitz
Danube Swabians, Gottscheer, Russian, Ukrainian and Hungarian refugees are buried here. More information.

General view of Kellerberg and Feffernitz Camps in Austria that between them housed some 10,000 displaced persons, 29 March 1946. Image courtesy of Imperial War Museum © IWM VIE 1315

Spittal UNRRA Team 330
Located all along what is today Lagerstrasse in Spittal an der Drau.

Updates 2022:
September: We visited the archive with some success. We are always happy to visit again once we have more names, so do email us.
September: We’ll be visiting the archive again soon, please contact us if you would like us to look for your family’s DP registration card - Spittal and Feffernitz camps.
April: We’ve visited the archive. Some records were found and we have copies of the camp photos that will be added soon.
April: We have an appointment at the archives, please contact us if you would like us to look for any record of your family.
March : We’re in contact with the Spittal an der Drau Stadtarchiv (archives). They’ve confirmed that they have personal files for the Spittal camp. They also have photographs that we will be able to publish. Our next step is go to the archive in person. If you would like us to find something for your family, please contact us. We don’t know what type of personal documents they have but we are happy to look for you. To keep up to date, please subscribe to our newsletter.

Go to the Spittal camp page

• Furnitz
  Transit accommodation

• Hermagor

• Klagenfurt - Jesuit Barracks
  Transit accommodation.

• Klagenfurt - Pischeldorfer Straße

• Lavamund
  Transit accommodation

• Picolo - see Villach below
  Purtscherstraße / Ossiacher Zeile

Picolo Displaced Persons Camp Villach. Stadtarchiv Villach.

• Pudlac (Völkermarkt)

• St. Martin - see Villach below

• St Veit an der Glan

• Treffling / Seeboden

• Ursulinengasse

• Viktring

Villach UNRRA Team 336

• Bauleitung (Ghonalle, Villach), Judendorf, Völkendorf, Magdalene and Piccolo.

• St. Martin
  The consolidation of the five Villach camps into St Martin camp, commenced in 1946.