[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Location of Russian Village - Pasarabien?

[Günther Böhm]

Am 06.05.2012 18:21, schrieb Cliff Kruger:
> I am looking for the location in Russia of a what is likely a village.
>
> According to the U.S. naturalization document for my relative in
> question, the name his birthplace is called: Pasarabien.
>
> Although I have looked at Russian maps on FEEFHS and the Map Archive
> of Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny, at this point it's like looking for
> a needle in a haystack since I don't have any reference points on what
> part of Russia this village might be located in.
>
> I also appreciate that the name, Pasarabien, may have a variety of
> spellings and misspellings, and I'm not sure if the spelling I have
> (from the naturalization certificate) is correct or not.
>
> Thanks for any tips, ideas, suggestions.

Hello Cliff,
Bessarabia [in German: Bessarabien] is a historical term for the geographic region bounded by the Dniester River on the 
east and the Prut River on the west and covers the western part of modern Moldavia. Since 1812 it belonged as a 
governorate to the Russian empire. Between 1814 and 1842, some 9000 Germans immigrated from Baden, Württemberg, Alsace, 
Bavaria and some Prussian areas of modern-day Poland to the southern parts of Bessarabia. Until their return to Germany 
in 1941, they became a minority of 93,000 people. 2000 of them were settled by Nazi authorities in the Polish district 
of Zamosc ("Himmlerstadt").

The link to the Bessarabian German Society in Stuttgart is www.bessarabien.de .

Günther