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A Light in the Darkness. Worcester, PA: Gateway Films/Vision Video, 1996.

Based on the reports of survivors, this 48-minute videotape tells the story of the Volga Germans sent to Stalin's forced labor camps in 1941.
Price includes postage and handling.  VHS

 

 

A Soulful Sound: Music of the Germans from Russia, Fargo, North Dakota: Prairie Public Broadcasting, 2005. 

This collection blends expert commentary with performances of traditional music from regional talent. DVD

 

AHSGR Headquarters and Site Museum Video Tour

This video is a 15 minutes visit to AHSGR Headquarters and Site Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.  VHS

 

 

Arthur E. and Cleora Reuscher Flegel. ROAD Show Productions, Fargo, ND

Oral History Interview Series, Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo, copyright 2001. 81 minutes.  VHS

 

Two Videos on One DVD

 

 


Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie and Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices: Iron Crosses of the Great Plains.

Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie. Fargo, ND: Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., 1999.

The story of the Germans from Russia is of agricultural pioneers on several continents whose quest for land and peace shaped them into a distinctive and enduring ethnic group.

 

 

Prairie Crosses, Prairie Voices: Iron Crosses of the Great Plains. Fargo, NE: Prairie Public Television, 2002.

 Iron Crosses stand as sentinels on the prairie landscape framed by huge expanse of grass and sky. Through they stand silent, behind each one is a story Prairie Crosses Prairie Voices evokes these stories-memories of the Germans from Russia, a frugal and tenacious people whose blacksmiths used wagon-wheel rims and scrap metal to fashion markers from the graves of the dead.

 


Eine Hochzeit in Ellis County, Kansas 1881
Produced by Leona Wasinger Pfeifer

This DVD is a reenactment of a Volga-German wedding that took place in 1881 in Munjor, Kansas. It was originally performed in 1990. (1990 was the last performance.) Leona Wasinger Pfeifer wrote and produced this video to preserve the Volga German wedding customs. This production contains the dialect, music, and dancing of an era that is almost forgotten. Leona Pfeifer narrates, and all actors are speaking German. DVD

 

 

Germans From Russia Food Pantry. Prairie Public Broadcasting

In German-Russian life, "food was love," and prairie mothers who left no record of their lives are remembered daily in the recipes and rituals of food preparation. A collection of three award-winning public television favorites that have been broadcast throughout North America: Schmeckfest: Food Traditions of the Germans from Russia , Recipes from Grandma's Kitchen Volumes I & II and bonus footage of chefs and complete recipes for the meals featured in the Grandma's Kitchen programs. DVD

 

 

Germans from Russia on the Canadian Prairies, Then & Now. Produced by Homeland Productions (Calgary) 

This documentary includes many people. Hear the unique dialect, see ‘shoebox’ photos, listen to traditional songs, phrases and personal stories. Some may make you laugh, others may make you cry, as you are taken back to a time that is slowly fading away.  VHS

 

Heaven Is Our Homeland: The Glückstalers in New Russia and North America. Roadshow Productions for the Glückstal Colonies Research Association.

The four villages known as the Glückstal Colonies were established northwest of Odessa in 1809-1810. However, the earliest of these immigrants had already arrived in July, 1804. Eventually 106 families were settled in Glückstal in the spring of 1809. The first 100 families of Neudorf arrived in 1808-1809. These families lived with other settlers at three different locations before establishing Neudorf in the spring of 1810. In the same spring, the 68 families of Bergdorf (who arrived in 1808-1809) and the 99 families of Kassel (who arrived in the fall of 1809) were also settled. Glückstalers began the migration to North America in 1874, first settling in Hutchinson County, Dakota Territory. Later they moved north and west as the railroads were completed and land became available. Migration continued to Western Canada, the Pacific Northwest and California. Today, descendants of these Glückstal Colonies are found throughout the United States and Canada, parts of Europe, particularly Germany, in Australia, and in the former Soviet Union.  VHS and DVD

 

 

Schmeckfest. Fargo, North Dakota: Prairie Public Broadcasting, 2000.

Across two centuries the Germans from Russia have endured and survived famine, wars, prairie fires, and the poverty of frontier life. From the Russian steppe to the grasslands of Argentina, from the American prairie to the tundra of Siberia, this ethnic group’s resourcefulness, particularly in the growing and preparation of food for their large families has become a rich legacy. In German-Russian life, "food was love," and prairie mothers who left no records of their lives are remembered daily in the recipes and rituals of food preparation.  VHS

 

 

We'll Meet Again In Heaven: Germans in the Soviet Union Write Their American Relatives 1925-1937

by Ronald J. Vossler 

This volume is dedicated to the "Germans in the Soviet Union who were deported, shot, starved, or worked to death under the Soviet regime." At the heart of this book are two hundred letters, arranged in chronological order over a twelve-year period. Includes index. DVD  

   

 

 

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