[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] EWZ Files & Deportation to Siberia

[Karl Krueger]

Kyle and Nelson,
  Film #2098666 is a EWZ57 film. You will get little useful information from this other than where to look for your potential relatives in EWZ58 and even that can be a guessing game. 
   
  A better way to go is to check ODL and search for Zietz names in EWZ50 - select "War Records" under Data category. You will see virtually all Zietz are found on EWZ50 film J044 but none are from Ekaterinoslav. You can only get EWZ50 records by someone making copies for you at the US National Archives.
  Karl

Nelson Itterman <colnels at telus.net> wrote:
  To Kyle & Karl:
There is one EWZ film #2098666 which will have the listing of all the Zietz
names. It would help if you have other names that show a relationship with
the Zietz family. If any of the Zietz's registered as immigrants any time
between 1939 and 1945, they would have to fill out forms showing their
immediate family their parents and probably grandparents. This is the
application stage, before they are granted any status. It is worth a try. If
you find the names of ancestors, you then apply for follow up films that
would have more details. You could be very lucky.
Nelson

-----Original Message-----
From: ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org
[mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of Karl
Krueger
Sent: February-12-08 7:33 PM
To: Kyle Sattler; ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] EWZ Files & Deportation to Siberia

Dear Kyle,
To learn what EWZ is all about read this link.
http://www.volhynia.com/ewzmain.html

EWZ would only be helpful for you if your relatives were met by the German
troops and then they were naturalized as German citizens. 
Karl

Kyle Sattler wrote: Hello SGGEE members,

I am asking for some help on my Zietz family from Ekaterinoslav, Russia
(southern Ukraine). They were German Russians. My great-great grandfather,
Bernhard Zietz (originally Sietz?) and his family immigrated in December
1923-January 1924 as I have mentioned in previous postings. His father,
Peter, died in 1916 in Russia.

Bernhard's mother and siblings were still in Ekaterinoslav during WWII.
I was wondering what records might be available for deportations to Siberia
or EWZ files. I am not really familiar with EWZ files but I believe that
they were recorded for German Russians during WWII? Did they include the
German Russians that got deported to Siberia to work in the salt mines?

I have been told that one of Bernhard's brothers, Aloysius, was killed
by revolutionists during the Russian Revolution as he was a student at the
university of Moscow. I understand that they were prime targets for
Revolutionists. Another brother, George, died at a young age. Bernhard
helped George's widow immigrate to Canada. From her he found out that his
mother, Regina (Malinovsky) Zietz and a brother, Joseph, were sent to
Siberia to work in the salt mines there. 
Bernhard's mother, Regina, was 71 at the time of her deportation. I would
think that she would be unable to do much labour in salt mines at that age?

If someone could help me out on this subject, that would be greatly
appreciated!

Greetings from the Saskatchewan winter,

Kyle Sattler

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