[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] (no subject)

[Detlef Gutzmann]

Till the beginning of  WW I, Volhynia belonged to the 
Russian empire, after 1914 situation depended on the 
military situation.

As far as I know, from 1914 a lot of Volhynian Germans 
were withdrawn from that region to the “kaukasian front”, 
 in the sence of a military district (which must not mean 
military fighting).

Russian and Ukrainian people told me, that a lot of people 
leaved Russia via Odessa at about October-revolution time 
and just before.

Detlef



Am 14.09.2011 14:23, schrieb DANWWAGNER at aol.com:
> Art,
>
>      I can't really answer your question, except to  share some family
> history.  My grandfather and his family left  Volhynia through Germany to Chicago
> in 1910-1912.  My grandfather and  a cousin came first, and they stayed
> permanently (except for my  grandfather's trip back to Elsenau, Germany, to
> bring over his finance  in 1914).  Then, in an example of chain migration, my
> grandfather assisted three brothers and their father to join  him.  Since
> two brothers and the father had families back in Volhynia, they  returned home
> after some months or a year or so of work.  (PS, I would love  to find
> records of their return to Volhynia.  Passenger lists I've seen  only record
> their coming to America.)  The other brother died in  Chicago in an accident.
> Back in Volhynia, the whole family got caught  up in WWI, with the two
> brothers drafted into the German and Russian armies  respectively, followed by
> the Bolshevik revolution and continued fighting  between the Ukrainians and
> Russians.  My grandfather's brothers were  not able to leave again until they
> emigrated to Canada in the late  1920's.
>
>      I believe they began leaving Volhynia in 1910  mainly because the
> Russians were reneging on the promises made to get  Germans to settle there over
> the preceding 150 years.  Importantly, Russia  began conscripting ethnic
> Germans into the growing army as the world headed  toward world war.  Of
> course, the New World also promised jobs,  cheap land, and a better life.
>
>          Dan Wagner
>
>
>
> In a message dated 9/13/2011 4:52:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> schrota at shaw.ca writes:
>
> Good  afternoon
>
>
>
> Is anyone familiar with the exodus of German  Volhynians from the region
> between 1910 and 1917. I have a note in an  archive (by Bernhart Forbau)
> that
> my grandparents escaped to Germany  through the Middle East. I cannot find
> any historical data to support  this.
>
>
>
> My relatives would include the Schrot, Betke, Brenner and  perhaps Forbau
> who
> were living near Mitzk, Volhynia in the early part of  1900. My father and
> uncle were born in Germany
>
> In 1917 and 1920 in  the Pasewalk area. My father remembers being in the
> Greifswald  forest.
>
>
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks
>
>
>
> Art  Schrot
>
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