[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] real people?

[Richard Benert]

Paul,

The ? = o-umlaut.  It's definitely Groenke in the book.

He doesn't mention how old Ferdinand was, but says that his son was "almost 
a child".  This would tend to rule out an 80-year-old child, but I suppose 
you never know!

Dick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Rakow" <rakow at ifh.de>
To: "Ger-Poland-Volhynia" <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Cc: "Richard Benert" <benovich at imt.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] real people?


>   Dick,
>
>      My mother is a Gruenke, so if the ? in Gr?nke stands for u-umlaut
> I'm interested.
>
>      How old was the father Ferdinand in the book? There's a Ferdinand
> Gruenke in my family, born 1834 in Zgierz, living in Protowka in Volhynia
> in 1870. So he'd be 80 at the time of the deportation.
>
>           Paul Rakow
>           rakow at ifh.de
>
> "Richard Benert" <benovich at imt.net> wrote:
>> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] real people?
>>
>> Glacier
>> I am reading at the moment a somewhat novelistic story about the 
>> Deportation
>> of 1915 by one Bernhard Schwarz.  The book is "Wolhyniendeutsches
>> Schicksal", published posthumously (Schwarz was killed in the war while
>> writing it) in 1942. It appears to be factually based, but I can't be 
>> 100%
>> sure.  It would  help if I knew that the people he mentions were real
>> people.  Can anyone identify the following:
>>
>> Andreas Wunsch  (from Adamowka, apparently), who seems to be the
>> story-teller. Had a son named Georg.
>> Johann Marquardt (from Niespodzianka) and his son, Adolf (from Adamowka?)
>> Rudolf Stammer (from Amelyn)
>> Alexander Gr?nke and his father, Ferdinand (from Adamowka?)
>> Friedrich Loh
>> Wenzel Stolz (from Zelanka)
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>> Dick Benert
>>
>
>