[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Volhynia concern

[K. Gallagher]

Was there something wrong with being from Volhynia?  A good number of  
the immigrants from Klein Gluscha whose families I have known did not  
acknowledge that they came from there.  One of my mother's half- 
siblings consistently said that she was born in Middletown,  
Connecticut although her confirmation record in MIddletown names Klein  
Gluscha and she immigrated when she was old enough to remember where  
she was born.  When he applied for citizenship, her older brother said  
he didn't know where he was born although he left Volhynia when he was  
fourteen and certainly knew he was born in Borki.  The children of  
these two, and the first generation here of others did not seem to  
know either.  While I know that there was a considerable amount of  
anti-German feeling during the war and they had security concerns, is  
there more to it that I have not considered?