[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Possible project: Volhynians in Brazil

[Richard Benert]

Mauricio,

If your interests extend to post-1930 immigration to Brazil, you will find 
on the SGGEE website some information about an organization formed in 1935 
(in cahoots with the German government) to find suitable immigrants to 
Brazil from among German refugees in Prussia (having come there from Poland 
and Volhynia after WW I).  Records relating to the transfer of families were 
preserved by the Deutsches Ausland Institut and these were preserved among 
the "captured German war documents" now in the U.S. National Archives.  Some 
of them were filmed and are on Rolls 353 and 354 of Series T-81 of the films 
in the National Archive collection.  They only filmed the correspondance of 
a few dozen families (that of other families apparently still lies in the 
Berlin Document Center), but they are a rich (and probably untapped) source 
of genealogical information as well as clues about how the organization 
functioned.

Here is the link: http://www.sggee.org/Germans_to_Brazil.html.

Dick Benert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mauricio Norenberg" <mauricio.norenberg at gmail.com>
To: "GPV List" <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:10 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Possible project: Volhynians in Brazil


> Hi,
>
> I'm interested to start a project regarding the Volhynians who came to
> Brazil.
> When I started my personal research over my family who came from Volhynia, 
> I
> found lack of information on Brazil. But with research time, I found a lot
> of information on microfilms as well. And I have a lot of parish registers
> that are no longer microfilmed.
> Now I'm living in Auckland, and I have access to a good Library, that 
> makes
> easier to do research.
> Basically would be cataloging all the families who arrived from Volhynia,
> usually identified by the Brazilian settlements they arrived.
>
> Curiously, the majority Volhynians went to specifics settlements reserved
> for German-Russians. That's what happened on "Linha Silva Jardim"
> settlement. I think had a specific Brazilian dealer that went to Volhynian
> to advertise about Brazil. And I'm very curious how my ancestors decided
> Brazil against Canada. I have relatives who went to Canada. Could have a
> register about the propaganda made in Volhynia. Does somebody have
> information about this?
>
> So, I'm looking forward for opinions about how can I make this catalog and
> contribute with this community along the next year.
>
> Regards and happy new year!
>
> Mauricio Norenberg
>
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