[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] - Glor /Bonakowski Surnames

[Kenneth Browne]

On 03/23/2012 05:39 AM, Hannes Werner wrote:
> found this at German states archive:
>
> "Bonakowski, Albert, living at colony of Janowka/Volynia"
> Source is : Bundesarchiv, Sign. R57 neu, Bd. 1502
> This source deals with resettlements from Volynia.
>
> On the backside of this document is a notice:
> Wilhelmine SCHIELKE nee Bonakowski - 1925 to Goldap/East-Prussia"
>
snipped for brevity
> Maybe it helps a little bit
I have Lachmann ancestors (1.) Karl 2.) Johann Gottfried 3.) Samuel 
George who lived around Kielce. Samuel emigrated in 1886 or 1891 and 
settled in Chicago. I've been trying to track some of his relations 
who stayed in Europe.

The above-quoted post raises a question (or perhaps provides an 
answer) about one of my brick walls. I've been trying to figure out 
why one of my Lachmann relatives would have left Poland/Volhynia and 
returned to Germany as early as 1931, their ancestors having been 
there for several generations. In particular, a Jewish sister-in-law 
Beile Lachmann wrote my ggfather (Samuel) in Yiddish in 1931 and again 
in 1935 and 1937 (in English) and the letters had a return address in 
Berlin.

When you mention "resettlements from Volhynia" and cite the case in 
"1925 to Goldap/East Prussia" does this mean that there was a 
resettlement program for ethnic Germans well before Hitler's coming to 
power? If so, was it a voluntary program or was it somehow 
enforceable? By the time my sister-in-law wrote my ggf in 1937
she states that she and her husband were unable to "return to Poland" 
because they had no passports. I wonder if they had resettled in 
Germany, perhaps under favorable conditions, which later turned very 
UNfavorable when Hitler came to power????

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Kenneth Browne researching: BROWN(E) LEIGHTON TAYLOR CLOUGH/CLUFF 
LACHMANN RUSSELL MORSE PETTENGILL NOBLE SMALL WOLF MROCH LUEDTKE HECKBERT