[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Deportations

[richard benert]

Only a person suffering from terminal absence of mind could have said there 
were no lists of 1915 deportees when he himself had worked on the project of 
transliterating the Zhitomir newspaper lists.  Thanks to those who corrected 
my mistake and were kind enough to refrain from calling for the men in white 
coats to pay me a visit.  However, in a lame attempt to excuse myself, I 
should point out that the newspaper list, strictly speaking, was a list of 
expropriated farms, not of deported people.  Not all deportees were on it. 
My grandfather Boehnert and my aunt and uncle from Solodyri were deported 
but not listed, and I would love to know why not.  Just administrative 
inefficiency, or was there a more substantial reason?

Dick Benert