[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Wjasowich, Wohylnien

[Kate Wertmiller]

Hello Nancy,

this village still exists in Ukraine, it calls Wyazovets' located in Chervonoarmiysk (former Pulin) district of Zhitomyr oblast' (administrative region) https://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.5075,28.260833&spn=0.01,0.01&output=kml.
Until 1937 it called Viderne (Viderno).

I've been to Wyazovets' in 2004 (my parents live nearby), we were looking for Schulz ancestors.

In the book Rehabilitated by History (list of people who suffered from Stalin's terror and repressions, opened secret archives data) there are a lot of Witzke from Wyazovets that means a lot of relatives of the repressed could lived there even after fearful 1937-1938 (see pages 168-169 http://www.reabit.org.ua/files/store/Zhitom.2.pdf, Віцке). For example, here are 2 persons from this list: Witzke Adolf Danylovich (patronymic), born in 1881 and Witzke Rudolf Adolfovich born in 1917 in Wyazovets. There are also other Witzke from different villages/colonies of Pulin district.

Please write to me if you find this info useful and will need any other infor or help with reading Russian/Ukrainian.

Kate Wertmiller,
Kyiv, Ukraine


On 16 янв. 2015, at 04:21, Nancy Cramer wrote:

> Hello Listers,
> 
> 
> 
> Are their any people on this list who are searching for ancestors who lived
> in Wjasowich, Wohlynien?
> 
> This area is now in the Ukraine and probably has a different name.    My
> ancestors were from Germany
> 
> but my Grandmother Matilda Witzke was born in "White Russia" or "Prussia".
> The family later moved
> 
> to the Wohlynien area.    Her father was Gustav Witzke.   In 1910 when she
> was 18, she came to the United States but I
> 
> have always tried to find out what happened to her family that remained in
> Wjasowich, Wohlynien. 
> 
> 
> 
> I have very little information on the family that was left behind.  I have a
> portrait of the family and some copies
> 
> of some old letters between Grandmother Matilda and her father.  The last
> letter was dated around 1931.  
> 
> 
> 
> Is there anyone on this list who is searching in this area?
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you so very much, 
> 
> 
> 
> Nancy Cramer
> 
> Myrtle Beach, South Carolina  
> 
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