FOREWORD BY SERGEY (SERGIUS) PEDDE

OF RUSSIAN BRANCH OF PEDDES 

Let me introduce myself. I am Sergey Pedde, or as my relatives call me, Sergius. I’m very glad that you are reading this message. And if you are here, it means you have an interest in my family tree. It’s great to have the opportunity to include information about my beloved family members here, and to present it for generations ahead who will be interested to learn about their heritage and come to know about the Pedde Family with its very rich and sometimes tragic history.


I’m very proud to be a Pedde, from a family which taught me to be honest with others, who taught me to love this world, to love people, my job, and my friends, and to respect the history of my family. Since my great-grandfathers left their Motherland, the German lands (now in Poland) before the First World War, they always kept their memories of those places. Unfortunately, they had to leave their homes each time new dangers and threats to their families arose. 

At first it was after the First World War. It was in Wolhynien, a territory in the morthwest area of the Ukraine which had been occupied by the Soviet Red Army.  Hunger and need, the hate of the Soviets for the displaced Germans. . . all this I call a massive engine, a force that moved the Peddes from place to place.

My great-grandparents had to leave for a cold and very unfriendly Siberia, in the Omskregion.  They found there a new place to live, but for only a couple of years.

Like a sudden Siberian snowfall, the Second World War arrived. Germans in the Soviet Union were considered enemies to the other citizens of the country. Soviet propaganda did its dirty work. Thousands and thousands of the Soviet Germans were repressed, killed or sent to do the most difficult jobs for the Soviet troops. Tilling the soil in the dirtiest agriculture regions of Siberia with its unforgiving climate, and toiling in the heaviest industrial factories, took thousands and thousands of lives. The same horrible fortune was in store for the lives of my grandparents. No right for a voice, no right to be real humans, no right to show their culture and to speak one of the richest and most beautiful languages of the world. Germans were considered as nothing. Pigs or horses were more respected by the Soviet people and its governments than Germans. There was no hope for my relatives, only despair. There was little happiness in their broken lives. No shining prospects for the future of the younger family members in Russia. There was nothing but the hope to leave for Germany someday. That hope finally became reality in 1990’s, when after the collapse of the Soviet Union, individuals were allowed to emigrate elsewhere.
  
Few people today want tohear the real truth about those horrible years. Silence in the past, silence in the present. How difficult to be silent, when I hear or think about my family history. The story of my family is the story of pain and pride, but with a constant belief and faith in God. This belief sustained them and kept them alive: alive for the sake of their children and generations to come, for all of us, the younger Peddes. Lord, bless my Family.

So, please enjoy learning the history of my family and come to know more about them. I shall surely be happy to answer your questions.

I would like to express my deepest thanks to Sieg Pedde, who has organized this great Everything Pedde Everywhere website project. This would be impossible without his cooperation.

Yours sincerely, Sergey Pedde

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   Sergey Pedde 

 Apt. 16 house 9, Karbyscheva Street

 Volzhskiy city, Volgograd territory

 404111- RUSSIA 

 Sergius Pedde

 Karbyschewa Str., 16-9

 St. Wolshskij, Gebiet Wolgograd

 404111- RUSSLAND

  Сергей Педде

  ул. Карбышева, 16-9

  г. Волжский, Волгоградская область

  404111- РОССИЯ

  e-mail: s.pedde@mail.ru

  telephone : +7-8443-39-01-24