[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Tschichanowitz

[Marcia Ritke-Momose]

Hi Rachael,

Thank you for your response and the link to your book.
I looked at the short video (very well done, BTW!), and it looks like it would be an interesting and intriguing read.

Warm greetings from Pennsylvania, USA!

Marcia


> On Feb 27, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Rachael Patterson <patterson.rachael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes to Frank Stewner's reply. Grodno was a part of Russian Poland, also
> known as The Pale of Settlement or Cherta Osedlosti. This can be viewed on
> one of my maps abt 1908, within my book Homeland Lost:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8QOvGHC7HU
> 
> All the Best! Greetings from Calgary, AB, Canada
> 
> GJ Rachael Patterson
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> ???????, 27 ??????? 2015, 6:09 +01:00 ?? "Frank Stewner" <
>> dr.stewner at t-online.de>:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> that "witz" means in German joke and indicates to me that Germans have
>>> altered the proper name.
>>> 
>>> And my first best guess was "Ciechanow". I looked up the SGGEE Poland
>>> Gazetteer and found:
>>> 
>>> Ciechanowiec, Wysokie Mazowieckie, Podlaskie, Poland          524254
>> 223000
>>> PL 18-230.
>>> 
>>> It is the capital of a "gmina" and has 4902 inhabitants tells me
>>> www.mapa.szukacz.pl
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> Grodno lays some 160 km NE of it in Belarus. In former times it was part
>> of
>>> the "Russian Poland". Grodno is the capital of the Grodno region and has
>>> 356557 inhabitants, says Wikipedia.en.
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> Greetings from Hamburg
>>> 
>>> Frank (Stewner)
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> 
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