[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Deportation of Volhynian Germans to Siberia

[richard benert]

Sorry to be so slow in responding, but I've been busily entertaining my 
visiting kids on the nearby slopes of the Bridger Mts. It's a tough life.

Karl Krueger is correct.  There are (in all likelihood) no lists of 
deportees.  The only possible exception might be (if I correctly remember an 
email I once got from Eric Lohr at Harvard) some early deportees from Poland 
who were instructed to take the trains provided for the purpose and might 
thereby have gotten their names on a list.  I think he told me that such 
lists might be in the archives of the Army or the railroad administrations. 
Finding them would be a monstrous task.  But the expulsion in Volhynia was 
carried out in much too chaotic a fashion (mostly by wagon) for names to 
have been collected.

I shouldn't make promises, but I do have in mind to write something on the 
Deportation of 1915 one of these days.  And I'll be finishing up (I hope) 
the talk on this subject that I started at last year's Convention in Calgary 
at this year's Convention in St. Paul.  In the meantime, if anyone has 
specific questions, please feel free to ask me.  It might just happen that 
I've read something that might have a bearing on them.

I'd also like to urge anyone who has a story about the Deportation to tell 
me about it.  I'm relying heavily on personal accounts of the experience, 
and the more, the better.

Dick Benert

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>I am looking for any information on the deportation of Volhynian Germans to
> Siberia in WWI.
> I am interested to know if my family appeared on any records or lists as
> being sent. My dad has talked of at least my g-gmother, KAROLINE FEIFERT 
> going
> to Siberia. The remainder of the family would have been HEINRICH, EMIL,
> OTTILIE,  and perhaps ALBERTINE and SAMUEL. Can anyone point me in the 
> direction I
> need to  go or provide me with a bit more information?
>
>
> Kristen FEIFERT Clark
>
> Researching : FEIFERT, STIEBNER,  NEUBERT, KOCHAN
> Searching: Nedbajewka, Rohrbach(Berjozowka),  Gruental
>
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