[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Christmas customs of Volhynians?

[rlyster at telusplanet.net]

We celebrated Christmas Eve...all would hurray and finish chores so we could 
gather.  Traditonal supper was Holopchi (German cabbage rolls with ground beef 
and rice..very large and held together with toothpicks).  We gathered around 
the Christmas tree and my mother would read Luke 2.  We would sing Christmas 
carols especially "O Du Froliche" and "Stille Nacht" and then open our 
presents....usually just one thing.  When we got older and bought each other 
gifts, then there were more.  As the years went by, we adopted the Canadian 
traditon of turkey and stuffing on Christmas day.  

One other yearly seasonal treat was poppy seed loaf....a yeast dough with 
ground, cinnamon seasoned poppy seed rolled up and baked....yummmmm.

Rita Lyster


Quoting GVLESS at aol.com:

> It is the holiday season and thought it could be interesting if some on  this
> 
> listserv could share their family customs that could have originated in  
> Volhynia.  I have often wondered if some who had their German origins of 
> course, 
> but did some customs come to our families from Poland as well as  Volhynia 
> itself?  I have seen many written up for our Volga GR's (which  helped me put
> 
> some substance to my Volga grandparents history) but have not any  clue if my
> 
> husband's parents had some different customs because they were born  in
> Volhynia 
> but whose grand parents had been in Poland before arriving in  Volhynia.  Are
> 
> any of you interested in sharing?  Would love to hear  it.
>  
> Virginia Less
> Researcher for Bergstraesser/Vogel & Less/Fischer (husband's Volhynian  
> ancestral lines)
> and for Glantz/Yost & Krahmer/Fradrich (my Volga and German ancestral 
> lines)
> 
> 
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