Six editions, three hundred years of the Bomert family
The family chronicles exist as individual web editions: two volumes that Jürgen Bomert worked out from the first family chronicle and from tape recordings, Aunt Elsa's account, and Bogdan Bomert's manuscript. This page brings them together — which volume covers which period and where each one begins. Volumes 1 and 4 are set up but still in progress; their places are already marked below.
The family in the studio, around 1925. The seven children and their mother — the generation Volume 3 tells of, and the one from which the later editions look back.
Volume 3 · Fig. 7f-1
Editions
62 of them in progress
Pages · counted in German
51
Images and maps
147
Audio excerpts
26
The volumes in context
1717 to the present, in several periods
Volume 2 ends in 1863 where Volume 3 begins. Elsa Nagel and Bogdan Bomert tell the same decades from two perspectives — she as a farmer, he as a child of a family in Działdowo.
A shared scale from 1700 to the present. The bars show which period each edition covers. Where a gap remains between two bars — for instance between 1863 and 1898 — that period is not told as a section of its own in any edition. Volumes 1 and 4 are in progress and therefore not yet drawn.
The editions
Six editions, two of them in progress
Each finished edition opens as its own self-contained page. Ordered by the year in which its period begins. Volumes 1 and 4 have their places but have not appeared yet.
6 of 6 editions
01
In progress
Volume 1
Cover image and illustrations will follow with the finished volume.
Volume 1 · in progress
Chronicle of the Bomert Family — Volume 1
This volume is currently being prepared
Volume 1 is set up but not yet completed. Once the manuscript, the illustrations and the language editions are ready, the period, the extent and the entry point for reading will appear here.
Period
still open
Extent
still open
Languages
still open
In progress · no edition to open yet
02The settlement triangle of Nowe, Świecie and Grudziądz; in the middle Neu-Marsau, the destination of the emigrants.
Volume 2 · Figure 1
Volume 2 · The 1st to 4th generation
Chronicle of the Bomert Family — Volume 2
“A Song of Death and Hardship?!” · 1717–1863
The emigration to Poland leads Friedrich (I.) Pomert into the starosty of Swiece, to the Vistula, to Graudenz and Kulm. Four generations, reassembled from parish registers, contribution cadastres and official gazettes — on the basis of the first family chronicle by Heinrich (Henryk) Bomert.
03The elder brothers of the seventh generation, photographed in a studio.
Volume 3 · Seventh generation
Volume 3 · The 5th to 7th generation
Chronicle of the Bomert Family — Volume 3
The mill, the eight children and two world wars · 1863–1976
Julian (I.) Bommert becomes a master miller, marries the weaver's daughter Anna Posiadlo in Plock in 1863 and buys the mill site at Wola-Brwilenska on the Vistula in 1881. Eight children grow up in the mill; two sons are murdered by the Gestapo, one falls in 1944. The volume joins two narrators: Henryk Bomert (1909–1981) and the tape recordings of Danuta Bomert (1918–2016).
Period
1863–1976
Extent
8 pages · 46 images
Languages
German
Prepared by Jürgen Christian Bomert · manuscript as of 12 April 2026
Recordings 1980/81 · 26 original voices to listen to · no photographs survive
Tape chronicle · eight tapes
Chronicle of Elsa Nagel
Aunt Elsa's account · 1898–1981
Elsa Nagel was over eighty when she began speaking her life onto tape — not at an interviewer's request, but because the pages of a book had stayed empty. It became eight tapes: of eleven siblings, four wars and a man who was taken away in 1945 and never came back. The edition arranges the recordings into a life story, a timeline, indexes of people and places, and makes 26 excerpts available in the original voice.
05The mother's family in the garden, with Adam, Władysława and the young Bohdan.
Bogdan Bomert · Image no. 2
Manuscript · Baunatal, July 2012
Chronicle of Bogdan Bomert
The family of Adam and Władysława Bomert · 1909–2020
Bogdan Bomert wrote down the history of his parents: a childhood in Działdowo, a war in Gralewo, two years without parents and a new life in Danzig. Four chapters, thirteen enclosures with records and an index — written for his own family and their descendants.
Cover image and illustrations will follow with the finished volume.
Volume 4 · in progress
Chronicle of the Bomert Family — Volume 4
This volume is currently being prepared
The fourth volume of the series is set up but not yet completed. Once the manuscript, the illustrations and the language editions are ready, the period, the extent and the entry point for reading will appear here.
