[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans in Spanish Lands

[Ed Sonnenburg]

Germans certainly turn up in the darndest places -

Did you hear about the guy that got to hell and found that
each nation was in a deep hole.  Beside each hole was a guard
to make sure nobody could escape.  Oddly there was no
guard beside the German hole.  After enquiring he was told
that when someone tries getting out from each nation they
would then help others come out.  Except by the Germans - when
someone tries to escape the others are just too happy
to pull him back into hell.  ô¿ô



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Menke" <menke5616 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <gloriah4 at juno.com>; <esonnenburg at sympatico.ca>
Cc: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans in Spanish Lands


> Happy Friday,
>   Germans turn up in the darndest places - my wife is from Guatemala and
there are a lot of Germans there, coffee growers and exporters mostly. My
wife's cousin is married to one and his family has been there since 1880's.
Neighboring Belize has many Mennonites also.
>
>   I speak, read and write Spanish if anyone ever has anything I would be
glad to help.
>
>   Chris Menke
>
> gloriah4 at juno.com wrote:
>   Ed,
>
> Your mention of "GRs from Mexico" really perked my interest. Do you have
> other information about them in addition to "language"?
>
> I ask because my husband's family immigrated into the U. S. via Mexico
> and yet we can locate nothing that links them back to the Ukraine. Their
> passports show that they left the Ukraine by way of LeHavre and the next
> (and last) stamp shows their disembarking in Vera Cruz Mexico. This was
> in 1926.
>
> One of our main research questions is, how did they get from the Ukraine
> (and from where in the Ukraine) to LeHavre? Also, we have been unable to
> locate a ship manifest since we have been unable to find that their ship
> ever sailed to Mexico. It did indeed sail from LeHavre that year but only
> landing in New York it seems.
>
> Were there many GRs in Mexico? Somehow I've always pictured our family as
> being exceptions and we can't figure why they went to Mexico of all
> places.
>
> Any scrap of help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Gloria Hoppe (wife of Al HOPPE)
> East Texas, USA
> Researching: HOPPE, TOBER, SAWATZKI, Neudorf Volhynia, Novograd Walinsk
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:16:53 -0400 "Ed Sonnenburg"
> writes:
> > When translating old letters I always found it a challenge when the
> > writer
> > threw in words or phrases from another language. When people live
> > in a certain place for a generation or two they pick up local
> > words.
> > My GR relatives and friends would flawlessly speak German but
> > then curse in either Russian or Polish.
> >
> > I always found it a challenge to understand the low German
> > but when the GRs from Mexico spoke low German and
> > threw in Spanish words it was almost impossible to understand.
> >
> > It is pretty hard for me to speak German today without throwing
> > in an English word - Ich geh und leere aus den Garbage.
> > I'm going to empty the garbage can. It was too hard
> > to say Muell Eimer.
> >
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