[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Volhynia

[Detlef Gutzmann]

Till the beginning of  WW I, Volhynia belonged to the 
Russian empire, after 1914 situation depended on the 
military situation.

As far as I know, from 1914 a lot of Volhynian Germans 
were withdrawn from that region to the “kaukasian front”, 
in the sence of a military district (which must not mean 
military fighting).

Russian and Ukrainian people told me, that a lot of people 
leaved Russia via Odessa at about October-revolution time 
and just before.

Detlef



Am 14.09.2011 14:23, schrieb DANWWAGNER at aol.com:

     Art,

          I can't really answer your question, except to 
 share some family
     history.  My grandfather and his family left 
 Volhynia through Germany to Chicago
     in 1910-1912.  My grandfather and  a cousin came 
first, and they stayed
     permanently (except for my  grandfather's trip back 
to Elsenau, Germany, to
     bring over his finance  in 1914).  Then, in an 
example of chain migration, my
     grandfather assisted three brothers and their father 
to join  him.  Since
     two brothers and the father had families back in 
Volhynia, they  returned home
     after some months or a year or so of work.  (PS, I 
would love  to find
     records of their return to Volhynia.  Passenger lists 
I've seen  only record
     their coming to America.)  The other brother died in 
 Chicago in an accident.
     Back in Volhynia, the whole family got caught  up in 
WWI, with the two
     brothers drafted into the German and Russian armies 
 respectively, followed by
     the Bolshevik revolution and continued fighting 
 between the Ukrainians and
     Russians.  My grandfather's brothers were  not able 
to leave again until they
     emigrated to Canada in the late  1920's.

          I believe they began leaving Volhynia in 1910 
 mainly because the
     Russians were reneging on the promises made to get 
 Germans to settle there over
     the preceding 150 years.  Importantly, Russia  began 
conscripting ethnic
     Germans into the growing army as the world headed 
 toward world war.  Of
     course, the New World also promised jobs,  cheap 
land, and a better life.

              Dan Wagner



     In a message dated 9/13/2011 4:52:54 P.M. Eastern 
Daylight Time,
     schrota at shaw.ca writes:

     Good  afternoon



     Is anyone familiar with the exodus of German 
 Volhynians from the region
     between 1910 and 1917. I have a note in an  archive 
(by Bernhart Forbau)
     that
     my grandparents escaped to Germany  through the 
Middle East. I cannot find
     any historical data to support  this.



     My relatives would include the Schrot, Betke, Brenner 
and  perhaps Forbau
     who
     were living near Mitzk, Volhynia in the early part of 
 1900. My father and
     uncle were born in Germany

     In 1917 and 1920 in  the Pasewalk area. My father 
remembers being in the
     Greifswald  forest.



     Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks



     Art  Schrot

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