[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 1916 map of Russian POW camps

[Richard Benert]

The map that Günther found is remarkable on many counts.  Thanks, Günther, 
for pointing it out. It should be remembered, though, that these camps were 
chiefly for POWs and civil internees (that is, German and Austrian citizens 
who lived or worked in Russia).  I think that possibly some Volhynian and 
Polish colonists may  have been housed in these camps temporarily, but 
generally they were foisted off on private families, placed in old factories 
or schools, or just left to find lodging on their own. But, since we have so 
little real information, we have to leave open the possibility that some 
colonists were placed in POW camps.

If anyone looked at the earlier pages in this 1916 Red Cross book, he/she 
may have noticed the warning given to people wishing to send packages to 
these camps.  Along with the obvious forbidden articles like knives, weapons 
and liquor, playing cards were verboten! Also, perishable items shouldn't be 
sent, since it took months for items to reach the camps.

Dick B.

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From: "Helen Gillespie" <hgillespie at rogers.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:37 PM
To: "Günther Böhm" <GHBoehm at ish.de>; "Wolhynien-Liste" 
<ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 1916 map of Russian POW camps

> Thanks Günther!
>
> Now I can see the size of the region/province - Samara - where my 
> grandmother's family was interned from 1915 to 1917 - but I sure wish I 
> knew the village they actually lived in. And it is certainly a looong way 
> from Friedrichsdorf/Solomka in Wolhynia.
>
>
> Helen Gillespie
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Günther Böhm <GHBoehm at ish.de>
> To: Wolhynien-Liste <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:07:58 PM
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 1916 map of Russian POW camps
>
> Hello everybody,
> in Sudeten-BMS-Liste I just read of a very detailed digitized map and 
> bilingual location list of Russian POW camps and
> places with detained civilians during WW1.
> The link is
>
> 
> http://search.obvsg.at/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&afterPDS=true&doc=ONB_aleph_acc000681275&vid=ONB
>
> Klick (right) at "DigitalesObjekt".
>
> Günther
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