[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans speaking...

[shoning at att.net]

Barbara,

You may be aware of this.  Erich and Herbert Lemke, sons of Friedrich Lemke, were among the 300+ people, mostly Germans, included in a legal case tried by a troika of officials.  All were executed in the Zhitomir area in September 1938.

George Shoning

-------------- Original message from "Barbara Cooper" <bdaelick at hotmail.com>: -------------- 


> Hello! 
> All this discussion regarding the languages various Germans spoke has been very 
> interesting. My Great Great Grandmother apparently spoke about four languages, 
> I assume German, Russian, Polish and English, she was also a Lutheran. She 
> married my Great Great Grandfather a Catholic who spoke only Russian. How they 
> met I do not know , it certainly must have been quite a love story. He was from 
> Podolia, they were in Volhynia - how I wish I knew the story! Anyway, what I 
> find interesting is that in the 1911 Census all of my German speaking, imigrated 
> from Volhynia relatives state that their ethnic origin is Polish (almost ten 
> families in all). This also applies to some other German speaking families in 
> the area that were apparently from Volhynia. Does anyone have a theory as to 
> why this would be? 
> I am researching the names Daelick(Deylik), Lemke, Geppert, Sesula, Klein, 
> Strauch, Kuehn, Schulz,Rakko, Zell, Weisner in Russian Poland, Volhynia and 
> Podolia. 
> 
> Barbara Cooper 
> Martensville, Saskatchewan 
> 
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