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02-15-2010 05:27 AM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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Re: Temporary Ersatzkarte
I would read it as Chrewt. Google-ing that term comes up with a tiny village in Poland, see here: Chrewt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The man's name sure sounds Polish to me, too.
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Re: Temporary Ersatzkarte
Thanks HPL! I think that may be it. I could not make out any of the first few letters. Super job, I was at a dead end. Thanks so much.
Jay
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Thanks Gary, I've been dragging out some of the old stuff for more research. Some stuff I'm stumped on because I can't read hand written signatures or entries.
Jay
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Hi,
I'm not sure, but I think his name reads "Wasiyl Belewiat" (which does sound vaguelly Polish to me although I'm by no means an expert on Polish names. I have heard of the Russian name Vasili, I wonder if Wasiyl could be a Polish equivelant?)
I agree that the Birthplace line could read "Chrewt", which as you say corresponds to a real place in Poland. So that and the name could indicate that our seller of "garden products" (manure maybe?) was Polish, perhaps he was allowed to travel into Germany itself from occupied Poland because his 'products' were vital to the war effort, if it's manure he was dealing in I can imagine it was vital to Germany's equivelant to Britain's "Digging for Victory."
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Re: Temporary Ersatzkarte
Actually his name is surname is Ukrainian. His Christian name would be Basil in English.
See this site where 3 families of that name are found to be from the same town:
A Dictionary of Lemko Surnames
Eastern parts of Poland had many people of Ukrainian background. They would of course regard it as Western Ukraine.
Cheers, Ade.
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Thanks CMc for the info. Ade, you sure have one darn big bag of tricks to look stuff up. Thanks for the link. I never thought to look up the name, I was trying to look it up by town. I didn't think I could find anything on some poor peasant. I guess in the end, getting the town and name ultimately solved the mystery. Thanks you guys.
Jay
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Adrian Stevenson
Actually his name is surname is Ukrainian. His Christian name would be Basil in English.
See this site where 3 families of that name are found to be from the same town:
A Dictionary of Lemko Surnames
Eastern parts of Poland had many people of Ukrainian background. They would of course regard it as Western Ukraine.
Interesting; makes sense. Chrewt is indeed very close to the border of the Ukraine.
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