Colin, you can count me in if you don't mind waiting for my contribution until after April? Is anybody else interested in helping with this very worthwhile and unique project?
Best regards
Anna Pacewicz
Sydney
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--- In Kresy-Siberia@..., Colin Forsyth <colinforsyth68@...> wrote:
Hi Everyone.
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.
Here is a great site for maps
Colin Forsyth
Calgary, AB
Canada
