[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans in Khasakstan

[tomjess64 at comcast.net]

Seek and you shall find. I found a henryk sienkiewicz who wrote "Quo Vadis". Which led me to a website dedicated to sinkiewicz ancestry http://www.genealogia.okiem.pl/sienkiewicz.htm . Using the translator help Jerry provided:  http://translate.google.com/translate_t . I am making some headway. Not sure if its the same family, but how many sienkiewicz can there be in kazakistan? 



Thomas Jess 



on another note, I have copies of pages from church records I received from LDS.  I took them to a local business that specializes in polish vacations and they guided me to a translator. She took a look at the pages and said she was not able to translate even though she is a certified translator. She helped with a few town names but that was it. Is there anyone who specializes in hard to translate polish church records? 






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Benert" <benovich at imt.net> 
To: tomjess64 at comcast.net, "Jerry Frank" <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca> 
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org, "F&RM Haddad" <farose at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 1:29:18 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans in Khasakstan 

This won't help Tom with his own family, but some interesting material 
regarding the Soviet project of colonizing Kazakhstan with  kulaks and other 
undesirables from places like Poland and Volhynia after 1935 is to be found 
in Kate Brown, "A Biography of No Place," (Cambridge, Mass, 2004), chapters 
5-8.  She makes you realize that (a) Germans were not the only victimized 
group and (b) that many people thought that being sent to Kazakhstan would 
be an improvement! 

As for Germans being deported as potential spies in early WW II (before the 
German army arrived), there was a general decree on August 26, 1941 to 
evacuate all ethnic Germans to Kazakhstan and Siberia (Brown, p. 284).  Do 
we have any idea how many Germans were affected by this?  Stumpp refers to 
the grieving German wives the army met as they entered the region whose 
husbands had just been exiled. 

For all those who read Russian (!), Brown cites a work by G. A. Karpikova, 
Iz istorii Nemtsev Kazakhstana (1921-1975), published in 1997. 

Dick 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tomjess64 at comcast.net> 
To: "Jerry Frank" <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca> 
Cc: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>; "F&RM Haddad" 
<farose at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:24 AM 
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans in Khasakstan 


> 
> 
> I'm very far from an expert, but from what I gather, the germans in the 
> volhynian area were thought to be spies by the russians during WW1 and 
> WW2. Many were deported to siberia, which also means kazakhistan. My 
> grandfather was from kazakhistan and I'm having a lot of trouble finding 
> out any info on him, even the surname sinkiewicz. 
> 
> 
> 
> Tom Jess 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jerry Frank" <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca> 
> To: "F&RM Haddad" <farose at gmail.com> 
> Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org 
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:02:00 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans in Khasakstan 
> 
> I didn't see a public response to this question. 
> 
> Germans in Kazahkstan came from many different places as it was one of 
> the areas that they were forced to go to during the wars. They could be 
> Volhynian, Black Sea, Bessarabian or Volga Germans or even those from 
> the Baltic States. 
> 
> 
> Jerry Frank 
> Calgary, AB 
> 
> 
> 
> F&RM Haddad wrote: 
>> And that's probably not spelled correctly. 
>> 
>> Germans in Khasakstan would have come from where? Volhynia? And/or ?? 
>> 
>> I'm trying to help someone whose parents come from there - and a bit of 
>> background might be helpful. 
>> 
>> Thank-you. 
>> 
>> Rose-Marie Haddad 
>> 
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