[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German Bureau of Aryan Records

[Helen Gillespie]

I know of a Schmalandt family who live in the Chicago area.  They came to the US ca. 1951 or 1952.  They were from Volhynia and were friends of my parents - Lydia Schmalandt nee Skalee was my Mom's maid of honour.

My Mom told me that some of the family had changed their names - but do not know if they ever kept in touch.  I do know that one of the daughters-in-law is interested in family history and I had sent some info that I had found over the years, but we have not kept in touch.  

I am sure you'd find their names on the internet.

By the way, IKEA - the international corporation - began in southern Sweden in Småland - not a far cry from Schmalandt or Schmuland - and the sound is the same.  Some info I found was that they had come from Sweden  in an earlier century.

Helen

--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Paul Rakow <rakow at ifh.de> wrote:

> From: Paul Rakow <rakow at ifh.de>
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German Bureau of Aryan Records
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 8:39 PM
> 
>    Don,
> 
>        This sounds like the "Aryan
> Pass", a document which most
>   Germans filled out during the Nazi period, listing
> their ancestors.
>   Unfortunately, the government didn't keep copies,
> the only way of
>   getting hold of this document is if a member of the
> German Stebner
>   family held on to it.
> 
>        Volhynia Germans who had
> been in Germany since 1908 wouldn't
>   have EWZ files - those were only for people who came
> to Germany during
>   the War years. But it might still be worth looking
> for Stebners,
>   Schmulands and Pischles in the EWZ films, because
> there might have
>   been more distant relatives of yours who only came
> to Germany
>   in the early 40s.
> 
>        Do you know the web-site
>   http://pommerndatenbank.de
> 
>        They have transcribed a lot
> of address books from Pomerania,
>   there are two Stebners listed in Koeslin in 1937,
>      August Stebner and Otto Stebner.
> 
>    Stebner & Co,
>    Manufactured goods and clothing,
>    the home of good quality
>    and cheap prices
> 
>       I think it would be fun to get a copy
> of their advert from
>   the 1937 Koeslin city address book.
> 
>               Paul
> Rakow
>               rakow at ifh.de
> 
> ====================
> 
>   doncarolea at aol.com
> wrote: 
> >
> > My uncle, Otto Stebner, was born in Volhynia between
> 1893 and 1896
> > somewhere near Zhytomir.  The family, consisting
> of my mother, her parents,  her
> > sister and 5 brothers, left Volhynia in about 1908 and
> went to  Bismarkwald
> > near Gross Wartenberg.  All emigrated to the US
> in 1914  except for Otto.
> > Otto fought in the German army in WW1 against
> the  Russians, including the
> > battle of Tannenberg.  In 1938, he was the 
> proprietor of a soft goods store in
> > Koslin, Pomerania known as "August Stebner  &
> Co."  August Stebner must have
> > been a relative. Otto wrote his  brother in
> Chicago asking him if he knew
> > the names and birth places of their  grandparents
> as this information was
> > being requested by the German Bureau of  Aryan
> records.  His brother did not
> > know but Otto must have found the  information
> somehow.  Does anyone know if
> > this information can be  accessed?
> >
> > I am really searching for the birth place of my
> grandfather, Heinrich
> > Stebner, and the names and birth places of his
> parents. Also, the  birth place
> > of my grandmother, Julianna Schmuland, and her
> parents, Gottfried  Schmuland
> > and Justine Pischle.  These families were German
> Lutheran.
> >
> > Don Anderson
> >
> 
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