[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Leaving Volhynia, Ellis Island etc.

[GVLESS at aol.com]

Question regarding leaving Volhynia and going into Poland.  Someone has said 
that it was not a problem going thru Poland at that time.  Is that true?  Then 
what about getting into Germany and to Hamburg to board a ship for overseas?  
My husband's father had only his Confirmation paper as an identity paper (at 
least we never did find in his papers anything else like a passport or exit 
paper or whatever).  Would an immigrant have to have a legal document in order 
to pass through, even into Ellis Island?  The confirmation paper did spell very 
sucinctly his name - Fred Less - so unless someone else wrote the name out in 
poor handwriting I do not see any deviation to the name.  I tried the Hamburg 
Ship website to see if anything was there and nothing came up.  Same for the 
Ellis Island site. Tried all variations of name and nothing found.  This brick 
wall for finding a ship passenger record is getting very difficult to 
overcome.  

Anyway, has anyone tried the Jewish Genealogy site yet?  I checked it 
tonight, got details on what and how to access them but haven't had nerve yet to do 
so.  Thanks, Jerry for your suggestion.  Maybe tomorrow I will take another 
step with them.

It does look like a number of you on this listserv have a story of some 
involvement with Jewish friends or whatever in their ancestor's family leaving 
Volhynia.  Are there more?  Keep the info flowing.  Maybe more stories will help 
solve this puzzle about a possible Jewish Underground Railroad.

Virginia Less