----- Original Message ----- From: Vera Beljakova To: fjacobs@cox.net Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 1:14 PM Subject: RE: Re: [GV] Book: The Killing Fields / The Unknown Gulags / spetz-Villages From:frank jacobs Sent:Saturday, May 19, 2007 17:33 To:Vera Beljakova atacama@global.co.za; Subject:Re: [GV] Book: The Killing Fields / The Unknown Gulags / spetz-Villages > An excellent new book - and review - > About the 1st large-scale deportation under Stalin > Of the Kulak's (wealthy peasant farmers) to make way for > collectivisation.....in 1929-1930s. > > This is also of relevance to GRs. > Vera, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emanuel Lell of Pfeifer, Russia wrote , my sister Karolina Seitz and her husband Paul Seitz were declared Kulaks and banished to Kasachstan in 1933, for inheriting a nice large house. The Seitz families that had previously migrated to Kansas were fairly prosperous and the patriarch payed the way for many of the kin to migrate. The Seitz family which came to Kansas prospered. I also noted in Coronel Suarez, Argentina the Seitz family had an elaborate family burial plot as well. However Paul was not one who migrated. Declared a kulak, Paul died in the coal mines and his wife and child starved to death in Karaganda in 1933. A not uncommon story but part of the VG history. Frank jacobs