I am looking for any one related or connected to any of the following people/families who were located around the area of Konigsberg, East Prussia immediately prior and during World War 2:

Plowes of Stolzenberg
Gottschling of Tiefensee
Roh of Heiligenbeil
Niesses near Bomben, Gehau or Zinthen
Rudolf Tonn of Bomben, Landesschutz soldier stationed in Insterberg
Ursula Dietrich and her mother Mrs.Dietrich from Tilsit

Renate born about 1940 a refugee girl from Konigsberg who fled East Prussia departing Pilau on board the boat 'Moewe' Feb 1945 then settled in Schleswig Holstein, Northern Germany after being reunited with her mother with help from the Red Cross.

These people and my family where closely connected and we could benefit from sharing our stories.

I am looking for shmidts who left East Prussia before or
after ww11 to Germany.How did you find the boat they left
on and from where?Is there a site or what?

Schmidt (Smith) is about the most common name in Germany, you will need a lot more than that to make a start. If they left before WW2 they would be much more likely to have left by train than any other way. If they fled in 1945 they would have used anything, horses, carts, mainly on foot, if they did leave by boat (a comparatively small number did), no one was keeping any records, if you crammed on board a ship you were mostly just lucky. If they stayed and managed to survive until the final expulsions it was trains (cattle trucks) mostly into what became East Germany. To make a real start you need a full name and the actual town/village they came from, other wise I do not think you will make much progress. Good luck anyway.

Hi !

If the red cross has reunited them,ask for the info there.
I´m born in Warburg and a classmate ´s mom worked at the ITS in Bad Arolsen ( 20km from Warburg).
http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
If you have further info contact me. I will help you to find them .Do you know any adress? It doesn´t matter, if the adress is 40 or 50 years old ?
contact : unserewurzeln@gmx.de