[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Village name

[Carolyn Schaefer]

I have an uncle that has been missing since the war.  My grandfather 
contacted the Red Cross at the time, but they weren't able to locate him.  I 
contacted the Red Cross a few years ago and they had a department that did 
nothing but search for people from WWII.  They were able to send me quite a 
bit of information on my uncle.

Carolyn Schaefer

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From: "George Shoning" <shoning at q.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:23 PM
To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>; <byantha at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Village name

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> Barb,
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> You wrote:
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>> The individuals that fled would've registered along the way with the
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>> Red Cross? And families were reunited following the war through the
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>> Red Cross? How did they do that?  How did they know where to go
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>> to register? Where could I find the information they registered?
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> My mother and relatives went through this process; I was just about 
> eleven.  The Red Cross was very active in reuniting families.  Much of the 
> information about the process was by word-of-mouth among displaced 
> persons.  Anyone who wanted to find a relative filed an application with 
> the Red Cross in Germany.  The Red Cross matched applications and notified 
> the applicants of the addresses of the sought person or persons.  Needless 
> to say, this was all done manually (no computers) and in some cases took 
> rather long.  My mother was able to locate her mother, brother, and 
> sister-in-law through this process.
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> I do not know if or where the applications submitted to the Red Cross were 
> saved.
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> George Shoning
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