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Any ideas on how can I find further info on an ancestor in Germany after 1945?

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Hello everyone, I am currently working on a genealogy research about my relatives in Germany.

Among them, there is Olga Eckert (born 6.7.1898), a Folksdeutche who evacuated from Ukraine during the Second World War and settled in Germany. I did a search via the Bundesarchiv website, and I discovered a link (R 9361-IV/20338) to her EWZ file in the archive
https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio/direktlink/8c9ea8d1-d3f8-41...
However, I believe I already saw the contents of this file, because previously I have obtained numerous EWZ files on family members via Mennonite Historical Society, Canada.

I am interested in Olga's life after the end of the war in Germany and after she received the German citizenship. However, the only thing I see in the Bundesarchiv search is the EWZ files I've mentioned above.Can you please tell me what can I do to find other documents about her? What is available in German Archives, and how can I find it?

I will very much appreciate any helpful ideas at all.

Additional info. Olga Eckert was born in Cherson (Ukraine). From 23.11.1943 to 25.5.1944, she had lived in the Lager 62 der Volksdeutschen Mittelstelle Einsiedel Kreis Chemnitz/Sachsen. As far as I understand from currently available documents, after having received the citizenship of Germany (19.02.1944), she then had got it cancelled, as evidenced in a few papers from EWZ. According to unproven family rumors, after the war Olga married some Russian prisoner of war, they had a daughter, who later had a son. All these people had lived in Germany until the old age.

Do you know about archion.de? They have a lot of digital copies of German church books on that site, so if you have an idea of where they were and approximately when they married and had a child, you could look for their marriage record and birth/baptism records if they exist in the church books. It's not free but you can purchase a one-month pass for about 20 euro.

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