Oksbøl Refugee Camp

[2][3][4][5] The refugees were provisionally housed in schools, village halls and the like in 1,100 sites all over the country and later gathered in larger camps (465 in October 1945), of which Oksbøl was the largest.

[6][7] Oksbøl is a town 20 km northwest of Esbjerg at the Danish North Sea coast.

[2] The existing barracks and horse stables were used and a town of hutments was built, fenced with barbed wire and guarded by Danish troops.

The administration was organized by the inmates and a court, a cinema, a number of churches, hospitals and schools existed.

The theater was conducted by Walter Warndorf, the former director of the Danziger Staatstheater, and his wife Eva Just.