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Hi again! I do not suppose that the POW hid his real name to my grandma. He was looking after her after the war. But possible is that my grandma did not remember exactly his name. DNA testing would be a last resort. Important is if my grandfather remembered the first name of my mother. I read that the stalag was evacuated in February 1945. If my grandfather was there until the evacuation it is very possible he had the possibility to see my mother as little child and to know her name. Historygeek wrote the first name of the child is known. If my mother's name agrees with what knows Historygeek the probability would be very much... If the name does not match, the probability is very small.

But I hope one day I will be succesfully with my searching. I wish my mother is still alive then.

Greetings
Roman

Quote from: cortado1 on Monday 23 July 18 23:02 BST (UK)

Hi again ! Thank you for the quickly answer.

Of course, I can give the name of my mother. Her first name is Gertruda germ. Getrude, the name of my grandma was Zofia (Sophie) Kaczmarek. I have also very limited information. My mom isn't sure the name of the POW, she said it sounded like Davis Roberts or Robert Davies or something like that. But she is not sure. I'm hoping it helps us...

Greetings
Roman

Unfortunately my grandfather’s name was William. That would have been amazing if they had matched up! Unfortunately, as someone else said, this probably happened quite a bit during the war and it would be very hard to trace.

Hi !
Firstly excuse me my broken English, but I hope you will understand it. I see, you wrote your posts more than one year ago and I want to ask, did you solve the family mystery ? The reason I ask you is that in my family we have also a similar mystery. As I read your posts I couldn't believe that someone can write what I'm now searching. I read it and rub my eyes with astonishment. My heart beats hard...
After the reading I try to calm down and think maybe it were more stories like that and the way to solve our mystery is yet far away. Ok, I will write you now a little about our mystery. 
My grandmother (the mom of my mother) was a young polish woman when the WW2 was started. After the Germans occupied the whole land she has been sent to work to a farm near Malbork (Marienburg). While she worked there met a British prisoner from the stalag and fell in love.
The fruit of this relationship is my mother. My grandma didn’t want to speak much about it, also to my mother. The case came to light as my mom was 18 and get her ID-card, because she has a surname like my grandma as she was an unmarried woman. She learned then that her father she knew isn’t her biological father. She was shocked. My grandma told her the story of the love to a British prisoner. The grandma told her also that after the war he was searching for her and the child through the red cross, but she couldn’t response for fear of repression by the communists. After that she met an another man and got married. My mother was full of pretensions that she never tried to find him. My grandma died two years ago and the knowledge about the story had very few people in the family. Even the siblings of my mother don’t know that she is only their half sister. My mother is now 74, she was born on 2 nd March 1944 and I know she would like to know how looked her biological father and maybe to meet her half siblings in GB.
Are these stories not similar? Before I read your posts I wanted to write to the British Red Cross, but I would like it not to be needed anymore. Do you know the first name of the child or of the polish woman ? Maybe do you have even a picture of her ?
I hope you will write it soon even though it's been over a year.

Greetings from Poland
Roman