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Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Sudetendeutsche expelled from Czechoslovakia
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:41:56 EST


I, too, would like to locate sources from which I can learn more about
the plight of my German relatives whose villages were located in Czech lands
after the war.

My great grand parents, the Johan and Marie (Pretsch) Olbrich family,
immigrated to Texas around the turn of the century but continued to correspond
with their Sudetendeutsch relatives who found themselves living in the Czech
sector of Silesia after the war.
My ancestors lived in the village of Alt Lublitz (not very far south of
Opava). The Czech name for the village is Lublice. I have also heard the
village of Kreuzberg mentioned.

My grandmother corresponded with some of her cousins and sent money and
supplies to them until she died in 1955. I have a few letters from some of my
grandmother's cousins that were written shortly after the war (during the time
period when the Germans were being driven from their homes in the newly formed
Czech lands).

The letters that I have are as follows:
A letter written in 1947 by the Seidler family who lived at Langsdorf at
that time.
Many letters and pictures from Josef Anderka who lived at Passau
Auerbach.
Also from the Kratschmer family who lived at Nieder-Berringen.

My greatest wish is to make contact with some of my distant relatives.

Carroll Warschak
Waco, Texas

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