I am writing a novel based on my genealogy research. If anybody has done research that would answer the following questions, could you contact me offline:
1. How might have emigrants on their way to the port of Bremen >from Russia/Lithuania contracted cholera? What would they have eaten or drunk? Where might they have been staying when they got ill? In an inn along the way?
2. What was the situation of young Jewish men and the Czar's army around 1891? What age group was being drafted? For how long? Did being drafted mean the end of being Jewish for these young men?
3. If Jewish boys left Russia/Lithuania without passports, what would have happened if the authorities in East Prussia (this would have been along the way to the port of Bremen) done if they had discovered the boys? Arrested them? Extradited them to Lithuania (Czarist Russia)? And then what would have happened back in Czarist Russia? Would they have been jailed?
