Where did the Bessarabian Germans eventually immigrate to?
• Many voluntarily left their Bessarabian villages to immigrate to the United States (primarily North and South Dakota and Washington State), Canada, South America, Crimea, the Dobrudscha. • Those forced to leave Bessarabia in 1940 during Die Umsiedlung (The Resettlement) settled primarily in Germany, although some were also captured by the Russians and sent to Siberia and Kazakhstan. • GRHS has a Regional Interest Group for the Crimea to assist if your ancestors went to that region. • GRHS has Area Coordinators to assist with researching your ancestors in the U.S. and Canada. • For more information about researching families that left Bessarabia and are in Germany, the Koblenz records and EWZ/DAI records are helpful.
