[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

[Royal Natzke]

Thank you to Richard and Mary Ann for your insights. I have written to Roger
Hill at Holly Sugar to see if he is aware of the sugar beet companies
recruiting among the Germans from Russia for workers. His article in the
AHSGR Fall 1999 issue was very helpful. I am addressing the Germans from
Russia and the sugar beet industry connection as the topic at our Milwaukee
chapter in Nov. Thanks to all of you, I will have enough information. Royal
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> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:23:15 -0600
> From: "richard benert" <benovich at imt.net>
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] sugar beet connections
> To: "Royal Natzke" <rdnatzke at execpc.com>,
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> For what it's worth, there is a brief article on Germans from Russia as
> sugar-beet growers in the Fall, 1999, JOURNAL of the AHSGR.  It's written
by
> Roger Hill, who was then the President and CEO of Holly Sugar, and was
> himself a son of a GR sugar-beet growing family.  One might contact him
> about this, I suppose.  He does not mention, as one might expect if it
were
> an important factor, any sugar-beet growing in Russia, nor does he mention
> any kind of organized effort to recruit GR farmers for this industry.  But
> his statement, "Many families...arrived in Northern Colorado to work the
> sugar beets", implies some kind of foreknowledge that this was a good kind
> of farming to get into, perhaps spread only by word of mouth.  But just
> because Hill didn't mention any organized recruitment doesn't mean it
didn't
> exist.
>
> Dick Benert
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> From: "Royal Natzke" <rdnatzke at execpc.com>
> To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:39 PM
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] sugar beet connections
>
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > I am Dorothy Natzke's husband, Royal, and I have my own question. At a
> > recent
> > meeting of our Germans from Russia group we were sharing where our
> > ancestors
> > came from and where they settled in North America. I was amazed at how
> > many
> > times individuals mentioned that their people were employed in the sugar
> > beet
> > fields in NB., CO, KS, ND. During WWII we raised sugar beets on our farm
> > in
> > Brown Co, WI. I recently viewed the excellent video on sugar beets
> > produced by
> > the people in Scotts Bluff, NB.
> >
> > My question: did the Germans from Russia/Volhynia raise sugar beets in
the
> > old
> > country, or did they just pick that up as entrance level employment when
> > they
> > came here? I don't recall if we saw sugar beet fields when we were in
> > western
> > Volhynia in '01. We did see them in western Pomerania in Kreis
Greifenberg
> > (Trieglaf - where my people came from).
> >
> > Were sugar beet companies recruiting workers through a Germans from
Russia
> > network that went all the way back to Europe? or just here in the US and
> > Canada? or was it just by word of mouth?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Royal
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:34:41 -0500
> From: "Mary Ann Warnecke" <mawarnecke at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Sugar Beets
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> I recall a number of sugar beet farms near Lansing Michigan area. I have
found
> many of the friends of my Grandparents in Lansing were from Volhynia area.
I
> remember the discussions the adults had when they gathered together Sunday
> afternoons about having worked in the sugar beet farms when they first
came to
> the area. My Grandfather came to Lansing about 1913 and worked in the
> factories.
> There must have been some kind of communications between the people in the
> Lansing area and the friends and relatives in the Ukraine about digging
sugar
> beets.
> Mary Ann Warnecke
>
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