I've found this grave of a a WOLOKTO person, it's in "Velyka Bilozerka Zaporiz'ka oblast". Hyunivka (Гюнівка) is very close to this town.

https://billiongraves.com/grave/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8C%D1%8F-%D0%90%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%92 ...

I'm sorry for the confusion. You guys made me realise that Maria WOLOTKO/WOLOTKA was probably born in Ukraine. That's actually a great progress in the investigation. Thank you all.

When I started looking for "Junowka" names on the internet, I saw a lot of villages with this name in Poland, and none in other countries. That's why I thought she was from Poland. But now I understand that maybe there were some village with this name in Ukraine in 1940. The villages changed their ...

I've found a book called "Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich Tom III", at pages 431, 432 and 433, they describe 13 distinct Janowka / Janowko. With the automatic translation, it's a nightmare to understand to descriptions. But for some of them, I can see keywords ...

Do you mean it's most probably in Ukraine, and not un Poland?

Thanks!

Thanks, anybody knows what the word after Janowka means?
Janówka, przys.
Janówka, wieś
Janówka, wieś i dwór
Janówka, m-tko
Janówka, kol.
Janówka, st. kol.
Janówka, zaść.

Also what "Gmina" means?

[quote=Argumenty wskazują na "poza obecnymi granicami Polski" w skrócie "Przede wszystkim musisz operować na liście nazw miejscowości przedwojennych ze znajomością struktury tamtych województw, nie z dzisiejszej Polski."[/quote]

OK I see, I looked into the document of old city names (view 597/598 ...

Hello, considering what has been said, I should start with those 5 I think :
2) Janówka, Gmina Biała Podlaska
3) Janówka, Gmina Piszczac
4) Janówka, Chełm County
9) Janówka, Włodawa County
10) Janówka, Zamość County

Any advice to find the birth records for them? The woman is born in 1921? Should I ...

Thank you all, this is very informative. Here is a map of all the Janowka I found on wikipedia, overlayed with the map of the 3rd Reich posted by Zbig_Kowalski

Hello,
I am looking for the birth certificate of a person who died by hanging in a labor camp in Germany during World War II. His death certificate indicates her father and mother are unknown and I would like to fix that.
But it doesn't look simple to do.
Her name is Maria WOLOKTO / WOLOKTA, she was ...