[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Deportations

[Karl Krueger]

I just want to make sure everyone realizes that the Odessa Digital Library (ODL) will only cover the Russian Volhynian records of EWZ. Even at that I believe ODL is not complete as I have done searches for others in the National Archives who did not find certain relatives but I did find their records on microfilm. So my feeling is the ODL EWZ data is really incomplete and they are still assimilating that data as more GRHS members purchase additional EWZ50 films for their presonal use.
 
If your relatives were in Polish Volhynia, then you would have to look in EWZ52 which are not ODL.

Burnstwo at aol.com wrote:
I wanted to float a few more ideas for those looking for information on 
deportations. 

Regarding deportations from WWI - _www.wolhynien.de_ 
(http://www.wolhynien.de) has a list of deportees listed in a 1916 Zhitomer newspaper. You can find 
the list under the button marked "Zeitung, Shitomer 1916" on the opening 
page. Names appear by town and an alphabetical index can be found at the top of 
the page. I have found that deportees can be listed by town of residence OR 
on a nearby town's list. You can confirm if you relatives were on the list 
- but not where they were sent. This is Irene Kopetzki's very fine site for 
Volhynia. Kristen Feifert Clark: Nedbajewka is on the list, however I do not 
find the other two towns translated. Contact Irene (her email contact is on 
the website) and ask if deportee listings from these two towns are 
available. 

The EWZ films, which can be found under "War Documents" on the pixel site 
may also list your relatives whereabouts by date, including the towns they were 
deported to for both WWI and WWII. The EWZ documents are where I found my 
Gottschalk family was deported to a town called Astrakhan (on the Caspian Sea) 
in WWI and to a town called "Kaminskoje" which is just north of Kazachstan 
and a Trud Army Labor Camp in WWII. Look for the "Odessa Digital Library" 
link under "Other Sites of Interest" on the SGGEE main page for a list of names 
and their EWZ location (near the bottom of the page). Do a "Full Text 
Search" and adjust the drop down box for "War Records." Kristen: a Feifert family 
is listed and an EWZ record is available. 

Research through the archive in Zhitomer shows one Gottschalk was sent to 
the "Northern Regions". Finding the exact town looks to be impossible, but 
this area was generally referred to as "Siberia." The archive was able to 
locate the actual NKVD trial records. If any of you are interested, email me 
separately and I will give you the email of the researcher. 

Correspondence with a Drigert relative who just made it back to Germany in 
1996 (!) has shown that many of the people from Beresowo Hath, Blumenthal and 
Pulin areas were sent to the town of Thelman in Kazachstan. Apparently there 
were many GRUS there. Perhaps others on the list may have information about 
areas where their families were sent. Kristen: Irene has a connection to 
Nedbajewka, I believe, and may know more of the deportation locations from 
that area for both WWI and WWII. 

Carol Gottschalk Burns

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