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From: alexleeb <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH] Deported, Dislocated Ancestors
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:05:23 -0700
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Some Croatians, served in the German Army. Apparently the Coates and Serbs did not see eye to eye.
I believe the custom was, the oldest boy in the family always inherited it, unless other arrangements were made.
In Romanian Banat, if a female married a Romanian man, she did not have to go to Russia and work in the coal-mines.

After WW-II, in 1945, all the Germans females, from the ages 18- 30 and male from the ages 17-45, were shipped to Russia, by cattle trains.
if a girl did not report herself to the head office, her father or grandfather was taken to take her place. When they arrived in Russia, the ladies were
stripped naked and shaved their head before Russian clothing was given to them.
The houses and land were taken away from the remaining German people. They came took our land animals away and we had to evacuate
our rooms and lived in the barns.
I cannot vouch for the Donauschwaben in Hungary and Serbia.

Alex.




On 2012-01-24, at 11:50 AM, Rita Schiwanowitsch wrote:

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> My mom tells me that there was a time, early on in 1944-1945, when the donauschwaben could denounce their German heritage. Some were savvy enough to know this would save them. But, if you had family conscripted into the German army (this was not be choice), you were ineligible for this. My grandfather was mostly Croatian ( over 90%) , but, this did not stop him from being murdered by the Partisans. He mistakenly felt he was safe. His crime was being a wealthy landowner. The property was then confiscated by the Serbian government, who gave it away as they saw fit. As far as inheritance goes, I believe the custom was for the property to be passed to the males of the family to be divided as disclosed in the will.
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> -- Sent from my HP TouchPadOn Jan 24, 2012 8:23 AM, Sandra Bruns <> wrote:
> I think that my family was actually a Hungarian family and a German Family
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> mixed marriage. When deportation occurred would the "Hungarian"s have been
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> deported too or would they have been left and the more Germans taken? What
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> happened to the propertys/businesses owned by the families that were
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> deported? I ask this question because it seems that there may have been
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> more of the "Hungarian" side of my ancestors that remained in the old
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> country and more of the "German" ancestors left?
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> Sandra
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