[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Volhynia concern

[Mauricio Norenberg]

That's a good point.

My grandmother, who was born in 1910 had no idea his father came from a
place called Volhynia.
The only thing she used to say is that they were born in Germany, and then
moved to Volhynia, which proved not true since they were born in Poland.
She mentioned they didn't like to say they were born either in Russia or
Poland.



On 3 October 2010 13:57, K. Gallagher <gallag.4gen at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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?
>
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