This is my first post in the forum, but I have been doing a lot of reading over the past month doing family research.
I've recently found many highly detailed maps available online made by the Germans between 1939 and 1944 covering Wolyn. These maps have the Polish names of the villages and also often have the locations of houses, churches and many other buildings. I've been able to overlay these maps using free tools like Google Earth. When doing so, it's shocking to see how many Polish villages are completely missing now. But, by combining the new satellite imagery with the old maps, it's possible to find signs of them though, like photographs of ghosts.
Just doing a quick search for a missing town on the map, I found an account of what happened in Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn. On page 188 there is mention of the town Marianowka being "liquidated". I see the town on the 1939 map. There is nothing obvious left in the recent satellite image. There are faint signs of roads and yards though. Disturbed soil and vegetation can maintain signs visible from the air for hundreds and even thousands of years.
I would like to find people who might be interested in a collaborative effort to document these "ghost" villages and settlements to be used in a multimedia map that would used to tie?testimonials, photos and other documents together.?
Attached is a quick example of the village of Marianowka.?
