Marriage Register for the Village of Burwalde
Chortitza Colony, Russia, May 22, 1942

Known in Russian as Vavitschka and Founded in xxx

see also: Banished Persons ~ Abducted Persons ~ Persons who starved to death
Red Army Personnel ~ Persons who were murdered

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Husband1,2 Age at Marr. Year of Marr. Wife3 Age at Marr. Children
Ever Born 4 Died 5
Janzen, Paul 50 1928 Giesbrecht, Maria 48 0 0
Epp, David 24 1936 Janzen, Elisabeth 23 1 1
Dyck, Abram 20 1941 Janzen, Elisabeth 27 1 0
Isaak, Abram 23 1938 Tscherbau, Anna [Ukrainian] 21 1 0
Sawatzky, Heinrich 30 1915 Dyck, Margarete 27 5 0
Paetkau, Isbrand 48 1933 Dyck, Margarete 45 1 0
Peters, Peter 22 1930 Toews, Anna 22 1 0
Janzen, Johann 27 1935 Toews, Anna 27 5 3
Littauer, Rudolf 21 1926 Klassen, Katarina 30 4 3
Klassen, Abram 56 1937 Klassen, Katarina 41 1 0
Harder, Franz 24 1905 Dyck, Elisabeth 19 8 2
Harder, Franz 59 1941 Goerzen, Susanna 53 8 2
Friesen, Johann 21 1908 Goerzen, Susanna 20 4 0
Hildebrand, Gerhard 26 1923 Klassen, Maria 19 5 2
Klassen, Gerhard 37 1934 Klassen, Maria 30 0 0
Klassen, Gerhard 21 1919 Buhr, Susanna 20 4 2
Klassen, Gerhard 31 1928 Buhr, Maria 22 2 0
Janzen, Franz 27 1918 Klippenstein, Maria 21 7 2
Ens, Julius 23 1868 Rempel, Elisabeth 20 7 0
Hildebrand, Jakob 32 1918 Pauls, Anna 22 7 2
Klassen, Heinrich 23 1923 Klassen, Maria 20 6 1
Toews, Julius 26 1930 Peters, Susanna 28 1 1
Toews, Julius 27 1931 Toews, Katarina 23 1 1
Toews, Julius 31 1934 Dyck, Margarete 39 2 2
Janzen, Jakob 22 1922 Dyck, Margarete 21 3 1
Mann, Julius 36 1936 Sawatsky, Anna 32 3 2
Wiebe, Abram 26 1930 Sawatsky, Anna 26 1 0
Grunau, Abram 22 1912 Zigelnikowa, Maria [Ukrainian] 21 4 0
Paetkau, Julius 27 1923 Zigelnikowa, Maria 33 2 0
Klassen, Heinrich 28 1923 Nickel, Anna 19 7 5
Braun, Dietrich 29 1934 Nickel, Anna 30 4 2
Klassen, Johann 25 1919 Harder, Helena 20 10 4
Friesen, Isaak 20 1936 Dueck, Mathilde 19 2 1
Janzen, Paul 22 1925 Kornejewka, Dunja [Ukrainian] 25 8 3
Janzen, Abram 25 1926 Klippenstein, Maria 36 3 1
Janzen, Abram 32 1933 Harms, Anna 28 2 0
Harder, Peter 22 1924 Harms, Anna 19 4 3
Janzen, Jakob 24 1908 Peters, Helene 21 4 1
Isaak, Abram 48 1933 Peters, Helene 47 0 0
Isaak, Abram 25 1910 Janzen, Anna 24 9 4
Isaak, Heinrich 28 1924 Toews, Susanna 19 5 3
Janzen, Jakob 23 1936 Toews, Susanna 30 0 0
Paetkau, Abram 22 1920 Harder, Helene 22 4 3
Paetkau, Abram 39 1937 Reimer, Maria 37 3 1
Isaak, Johann 27 1920 Reimer, Maria 20 4 2
Grunau, Peter 22 1927 Klassen, Anganeta 21 7 2
Isaak, Franz 28 1919 Janzen, Katarina 26 6 3
Kasdorf, Heinrich 21 1918 Klassen, Katarina 23 8 2
Klassen, Isaak 27 1912 Pauls, Elisabeth 20 4 3
Derksen, Gerhard 35 1921 Harms, Maria 20 7 1
Grunau, Abram 26 1935 Friesen, Justina 25 2 1
Dyck, Heinrich 25 1918 Sawatzky, Katarina 27 7 5
Klassen, Johann 20 1941 Sawatzky, Anna 18 1 0
Rempel, Johann 19 1921 Klippenstein, Helene 20 6 2
Klippenstein, Bernhard 22 1919 Ens, Katharina 20 7 2
Paetkau, Jakob 37 1994 Friesen, Helene 30 7 1
Toews, Abram 29 1927 Paetkau, Helene 29 4 0
Unger, Wilhelm 20 1916 Harms, Judith 24 6 2
Paetkau, Johann 34 1936 Paetkau, Maria 23 2 0
Toews, Kornelius 21 1922 Thiessen, Elisabeth 22 8 4
Paetkau, Johann 23 1941 Eguataschan, Tanja [Ukrainian] 19 0 0
Paetkau, Peter 21 1935 Lau, Frieda 20 5 2
Neufeld, Heinrich 32 1933 Klassen, Olga 24 5 4
Lau, Kornelius 19 1937 Wiebe, Margareta 20 3 1
Klassen, Abram 21 1931 Peters, Katharina 21 2 1
Harms, Gerhard 29 1921 Rempel, Liese 20 8 3
Tiessen, Johann 25 1939 Isaak, Anna 27 2 1
Harder, Johann 25 1928 Harms, Katarina 20 9 3
Kiel, Lorenz 22 1935 Epp, Anna 21 2 0
Harder, Jakob 25 1920 Dyck, Elisabeth 20 7 4
Klassen, Abram 20 1938 Janzen, Helene 19 3 1
Jung, Peter 22 1908 Ketler, Helene 21 5 2
Grunau, Johann 30 1931 Neufeld, Elisabeth 24 3 1
Peters, Abram 23 1978 Derksen, Margareta 20 11 2
Klassen, Heinrich 25 1925 Isaak, Sara 19 4 3
Isaak, Kornelius 32 1921 Dyck, Lena 21 5 0
Harms, Abram 21 1925 Harms, Katarina 19 6 2
Sawatzky, Abram 27 1919 Harms, Anna 19 8 4
Grunau, Gerhard 22 1931 Epp, Katarina 21 5 2
Friesen, Johann 24 1924 Wiebe, Elisabeth 18 0 0

Signed:
District Commissioner, Gerhard Fast
Burwalde, 22 May 1942

Notes:

1. Only German families and mixed families are mentioned by name.
2. When a man has had two or three wives, or a woman has had two or three husbands, the children are allocated according to the appropriate father.
3. If they are not German, ethnicity is identified.
4. All children ever born are accounted for, including those that are married or who have died.
5. Any children who never married or who died are counted here.
6. A I, II, or III behind a name indicates that this individual was the first, second or third spouse of the person also located on that row.
7. Ukrainian.

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