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Short History of Volhynia
1780: First village in Volhynia is settled, followed by
several others in around 1830
1861: Emancipation of serfs and start of immigration
1870: Mennonites start immigration to America followed
by colonists subject to army service
Around 1900: about 200,000 Germans in area
1915: Expropriation of land and transportation to east
1917/18: Revolution, then return to Volhynia
1920: Volhynia is split into two, Polish and Russian
1928: Emigration to Canada and US is stopped
1937: Major purge by NKVD
1943: Retreat of German army
Documents relating to Ancestors
Please see these links to view documents.
1915 Expropriation1
Germanic people in the border areas were sent eastwards in 1915. Many
of them returned after the Revolution in 1917.
For a listing of residents of Karolina Derman (village in
Volhynia) at the time of the 1915 Expropriation.
1. Mai, Brent Alan; The Expropriation of Land from the Germans in
Volhynia 1915; Pages 59-60; 1997: AHSGR, Nebraska
Photographs of Prutowka and Area These photographs were taken during a trip in 2002. The Germanic colony of Prutowka is sometimes referred to as Neuheim to differentiate it from
the nearby Russian village of Prutowka. This village is about 39 km.
west of Zhitomir.
EWZ and Prutowka
The following are surnames of people who have connections with Prutowka (Neuheim) and came to Germany during WW2. EWZ
are records of this immigration into Germany.
These were obtained from film EWZ58_HO33, FHL film number #1797315. Assenheimer Baierlein Fiedler Jesse Jesswein Klatt Krieger Krüger Kutz Marx Münch Schmidt Schroder Tiede This information was obtained from film EWZ58_HO34, FHL film number #1797316. Altmann Assneimer Brandt Janot Jesswein Kampf Kemp Klatt Krüger Kutz Marx Müller Münch Rosler Schmidt Schroder Sommerfeld Streichert Wegner Weiss Gravestones in Prutowka Cemetary Only three gravestones were found in the Prutowka cemetary. Most had been removed for building materials. They are:
Johann Hein Born 18 January 1840 in Poland 12 April 1904 Wilhelm Steinbart Born 21 February 1887 Died 15 December 1913 Michael Jasswein Born 11 September 1841 Died 8 October 1904 Links for Volhynian Information
The following website contains birth, death and marriage records for mostly utheran people. Other known spellings of Prutowka in the St. Petersburg
documents are: Protowka, Protuwka, Protemka, Protufka, Protumka, Patruwka, Prowtowka. St. Petersburg Records For other Volhynia websites please see: David Obee's Web Page German Baptists in Volhynia The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe German Volhynia Website Back... |