[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help Reading Old German Script on Back of Photo

[John Faunt]

 Hello List,

At this time, I must give a hearfelt thank you to all of those that studied
the front and back of the photo that I had posted and replied with
translations and information. I am totally amazed and blown away at the
incredible amount of information that has been gleaned from this short
message. The story of my family has been lost, but this is bringing some
life back to it.

I don't want to be asking too much of the people on the list, but because of
the wonderful information that I have received, I will be posting another
photo with writing on the back shortly. I believe it to be written by the
same person, Wilhelmina Kleemann.

Thanks again,
John Faunt



On 4/4/08, Günther Böhm <GHBoehm at ish.de> wrote:
>
> Sig Matt schrieb:
> > Now to the missing word, the name of the town.
> > "Fluechtlingsheim ...... .....?
> > I take my clue from the "Koenigsberger Str." that points to Eastprussia
> (Ostpreussen).
> > Then looking sharply at the fuzzy word I see a capitol  C- r- a- n-
> z,  (Cranz)
> > The second word is  Ostpr. Again a commonly used abbreviation, in that
> time period, of the word Ostpreussen,.
> >
> > Cranz was a resort town in it's time, (today "Selenogradsk",
> Kaliningradskaja Oblast, Russia.
> > It lies roughly 25 km due north of Koenigsberg on the Baltic Sea. It had
> miles of beautiful shallow white beach.
> > Our family would make an annual pilgrimage to it's shores to swim and
> get a real sunburn.
> > I last saw it in the summer of 1944 with friends and siblings, a
> memmorable encounter.
> Hello John,
> Sig is right! The words "Cranz Ostpr" are correcly spelled:
>
>   1. What I thought to be diphthong dots above the "a" is rather a spot
>      (flyspeck).
>   2. Because of the missing dot I didn't recognize the abbrevation
> "Ostpr."
>   3. The whole address is of a second handwriting. >> The spelling of
>      the surname "Klehmann" seems to be wrong since it was differently
>      spelled on top.
>   4. Cranz was a beach resort at the Baltic Sea. There were enough
>      buildings to be used as refugee homes.
>   5. Cranz had a "Königsberger Straße". Its actual (Russian) name is
>      "Kurort Prospekt". www.cranz.de.vu says that it got an asphalt
>      surface and gas light in 1937. So apparingly the Königsberger
>      Straße was the esplanade along the beach.
>   6. Though the photograph was taken in a studio, its background
>      wallpaper shows the beach and the studio floor is covered by sand
>      (the photographer used to take vacation pictures).
>
> The German Cranz homepage www.cranz.de.vu is owned by
>
>    Klaus A. LUNAU
>    Bahnhofstr. 14
>    D-30853 Langenhagen
>    Phone +49 511 773407
>    Fax +49 511 7684843
>    E-mail KALUN at ostseebad-cranz.de
>
> I think he has much more information for you.
>
> Günther
>
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