Latest work on the records:
Emma Ivanovna’s questionnaire reviewed
The extract from fond 161, inventory 1, unit 877 belongs to Emma Ivanovna Kreker’s personal file no. 1229. Her questionnaire dated 5 March 1949 records deportation on 12 July 1942 from Peski, Kharkiv region, residence in Semipolka in 1942–1946 and then Sennoye. Her sister is named as Zinaida Ivanovna Simentsova, born in 1920.
EWZ file reviewed at the Bundesarchiv
Records for Edmund and Lydia Dreger, née Kroeker, R 9361-IV/18702 reviewed. Family relationships are being compared with the EWZ card, Personalblatt and Sennoye registers.
Personalblatt and household registers
Lydia’s Personalblatt provides information about her parents and their religion. Household registers help clarify the family in Sennoye, including a previously unknown daughter of Emma Ivanovna.
Reply from the Bundesarchiv
Lydia Dreger’s EWZ card received. It contains information about her family and children; further research concerns Leo and his descendants.
Certificate FL-220: surname at birth
The birth record is confirmed: Vladimir Vasilyevich Kreker. His biological father’s identity remains unestablished.
Personal file no. 1229
Emma Ivanovna Kreker’s file received from the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs archive, 28 sheets.
EWZ50 Film B019
Frames 1340–1364 received from MHSBC, Canada, in 2026. The exact receipt date is not recorded in this journal.
Family branches and household registers
Research continues in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Germany. New findings are published after verification.
What is confirmed
The documents confirm Vladimir’s surname at birth, information about the special settlement, individual family connections and EWZ records. Ideas about his biological father remain a hypothesis.
Next steps
Research continues in archives in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Germany: household registers, birth and marriage records, and unknown branches of the Kroeker, Dreger, Schultz and Frelich families.