One of our readers found a postcard of Battin in Kreis Belgard and was kind enough to send it to us. The card is dated April 1, 1939, mentioning that: “Das Schloß ist neue außer Lager.” The postmark shows it was stamped in the neighboring Groß Rambin. The stamp bears the image of Otto von […]
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The photos from Krackow, Germany near the Polish border, Krackow was the community that my great grandfather August Borchert was born and baptized in this church in September, 1851.
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The following text is a portion of a letter written in 1983 by the son of the Lutheran minister whose family fled the Sammenthin area in 1945, along with all the other Germans in the area. Briefly about myself: My three sisters and I were born between 1936 and 1941 in the parish house of […]
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The following is the story of the timeline since 1983 of the buried church records at former Sammenthin in Kreis Arnswalde. Some of these people may be dead and some of the contact information for the people I wrote might be out of date. Sammenthin = Zamecin Schonfelde = Zensko (Chan-ish-ko) Arnswalde = Choszczno (Host-no) […]
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Susanne Petersson sent us these photos of Otto Priebe’s farm in Eschenriege. Her father, Egon Petersson, was assigned to assist on Otto Priebe’s farm during World War II. Special thanks to Susanne Petersson for sending us these fantastic pictures!!
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My father (Erich Karl Fritz Lill) brought these postcards with him when he came to America. We would like to thank Arlene Cook for being willing to share these awesome family treasures with us and the online community. We would like to welcome others to email any scans or photographs of relics of the past […]
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Making my way north towards Cammin, Hackenwalde was one of the first places I drove through in Pomerania. In hindsight, Hackenwalde’s village is a great example of pre-war Pommern. The church, while renovated on the inside, boasts traditional small-town church architecture. Houses are also typical of the previously small farming communities. One of the highlights […]
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Alt Quetzin is a small rural village in the former Kreis Kolberg-Körlin, today known as the Polish village, Kukinia. The outskirts of the village are largely farm land. On my trip, I decided to stop through this village, as this was the former residence of my great-great-uncle Kurt. I wanted to see the village he […]
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Henkenhagen, today Ustronie Morskie, was located in Kreis Kolberg-Körlin and situated on the Baltic Sea (Ostsee). There is a beautiful beach by the sea, an amusement park, and plenty of places to shop and sightsee. The main parish church goes by Podwyższenia Krzyża ÅšwiÄ™tego, or “Exaltation of the Holy Cross” in English, and was built […]
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I stumbled upon Ost and Berg Dievenow while driving back from Cammin Stadt. We had just finished visiting both the Centrum SÅ‚owian i Wikingów (Slavs and Vikings Center) in Wollin and the larger city of Cammin all in one day. We had taken a detour to see Soltin just before the sun had set. I […]
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