[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Locating records

[Richard Benert]

Herschuel---

Are you sure the removal from Poland was accomplished BEFORE W.W. I?  From 
what you say, it sounds more like you're talking about the removal DURING 
the war, probably in early 1915, when a few hundred thousand ethnic Germans 
were sent into exile.  If there are any official records of the removal of 
individual families from Poland during W.W. I, they haven't been found yet, 
and most likely there aren't any.  It was all done in haste and disorder, 
under military command.  Some Germans in Poland were exiled in the early 
months of the war and were allowed to buy train tickets.  If the Russian 
railroad administration preserved any records of this, such purchases might 
be recorded, but so far as I know, no one knows whether this was done or if 
such records still exist. If any records of your wife's aunt's retrieval of 
her family property exist, I would think they would be in the court records 
of whatever town or district they lived.  It would take someone more expert 
than I on the current organization of Polish archives to tell you where such 
records might now exist, if they survived W.W. II at all.  In short, we're 
fighting against long odds in this matter.

Dick Benert
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From: "hhowell" <hhowell at lakedalelink.net>
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Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Locating records


>I need some advise and direction.  My wife's aunt was removed to Russia 
>from Poland prior to WW I.  She returned after the war and reclaimed the 
>family property.  Her husband had immigrated to the US prior to the war.
>
> Her name was Augusta (Konn) Fenske, b 5 Jun 1879 m Ed Fenske.  Children at 
> the time of her removal were Ed Fenske, b 7 Aug 1910 and twin girls born 
> about 1912.  Family story is that the twin girls died while in exile.
>
> Where could I start looking for records.
>
> Herschuel Howell
>
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