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Sources and Licenses

Archival sources

The complete, current list of archive requests is on the "Archive" page; findings by date are on the "Updates" page. The key sources underlying the site's main facts:

  • Personal file of special settler Emma Ivanovna Kroeker, No. 1229 (28 pages) — Sectoral State Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, obtained 14 May 2026.
  • Personal file of special settler Emma Gotlibovna Frelich — State Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, fond 161, inventory 1, file 866.
  • Clarifications on file No. 877 (Zinaida Simentsova, Heinrich and Friedrich Schulz) — State Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, fond 161, inventory 1.
  • Archival certificate of rehabilitation for Kroeker E.I. and Frelich E.G. — Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 27 September 2016.
  • EWZ50 Film B019, frames 1340–1364 — Mennonite Heritage and Archives Society of BC (MHSBC, Canada), including Lydia Dreger's autobiography.
  • EWZ file R 9361-IV/18702 (Edmund + Lydia Dreger, née Kroeker, EWZ No. 906134) — Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde, request in progress.
  • Record for Kroeker Emma Ivanovna (1924) — open database of repressed persons, ru.openlist.wiki.

Facts are retold in the site author's own words based on the documents listed above; specific quotations (for example, from Lydia Dreger's autobiography) are attributed with author, file name and frame/page number directly next to the quote.

Archival scans — not published

This website does not publish full scans of archival personal files, in particular file No. 1229 (State Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine) or the 1956 application. Receiving a copy of a document from an archive is not automatically treated as permission to publish it online. Facts from these documents are retold as text with a source citation; the scans themselves are kept offline by the site owner.

Photographs

The family photo "Emma Ivanovna and Vladimir, c. 1975" comes from the site owner's private collection. The photographer is not known; the rights holder is unknown. Status: provisionally published on the basis of ownership of the original print; final legal status REQUIRES OWNER CONFIRMATION.

Illustrations on this website

The family-tree diagram, the schematic migration-route map, and the stylized scene illustrations for each stage of the journey (Prussia, Volhynia, Kazakhstan, Dubovskoye, Shakhty, Berlin) are original vector graphics created for this website. These are artistic diagrams and illustrations, not authentic archival photographs or documents.

Translations

The translations between Russian, German and English on this website were made by the site owner.

Copyright in this website's content

Texts, translations and the compilation of this website — © Eugen Usachew. Reproduction, distribution or use of the content without the author's consent is not permitted — except where expressly allowed by law (e.g. quotation to a justified extent with source attribution) and for materials separately marked as public domain or released under an open license (see "Software libraries and fonts" above).