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Journal 2000s

 

Journal 2000s

  • Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, (Spring 2000): On the cover: maps from the New Encyclopedic Atlas and Gazetteer of the World. The Gross and Schmidt families of Kansas reunited with their family in Russia after 120 years of separation in "Against the odds: A Family Reunited" by Gerald F. Schmidt. These families originated in Mariental and Katharinenstadt in the Volga Valley of Russia. Other Article: Memorable Events in the History of the German Colonies in Bessarabia" by Adreas Widmern, translations by Joseph Stach and Frederick Bolgert. "One of Ours Essays on the Cultural History of the German Autonomy on the Volga, Eminent Men of Culture: George Dignes by Elizabeth M. Ierina; translated by Max Maximov. "From the Days of Suffering by the the German Volga Colonies" by Friedrich Bier and Alexander Schick, translated by Herman G. Rempel. "Introduction: About the German Heritage on the Volga" by Dr. Karl Esselborn. "Bolshevism, Crop Failute and Famine" by Friedrich Bier. "The Return of the Great-Grandchild" by Alexander Schick.

  • Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2, (Summer 2000): On the cover: Statues at Lincoln Headquarters. "Welcome to Nebraska" by Lieutenant Governor David I. Maurstad. "Genealogy and Family History of the German Russian Archive Sources and Their Accessibility" by Alfred Eisfeld, Ph.D., Translated by Tracy Lauritzen Wright. "The Basis of the Federal Republic of Germany's Promotion Policies on Behalf of the Russian Federation's German Minority and the Moscow German-Russia House's Position within the System of Assistance Measures" by Wolfgang Döke, Ph.D., Translated by Samuel Sinner. "The Newest Research on the History and Culture of Germans of Russia" by Tamara Tschernowa, Ph.D., Translated by Richard Rye. "A Question and Answer Session about the 1798 Census" by Brent Alan Mai. "An Open Wound" by Samuel Sinner. "Escape and Survival: The Last Train Out" by Willi Wutzke. "Recent Research on Peter Sinner, Volga-German Poet and Victim of Stalin" by Samuel Sinner. "Onward and Upward - Climbing Into the 21st Century" by John Stencel.

  • Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, (Fall 2000): On the cover: Arrival of Germans from Bessarabia to their new homes in Czegow, Romania. "My Trip to America, The Diary of Evangeline G. Rempel 1922-1923" by Evangeline G. Rempel Dyck. "The Deportation of the German Population from the City of Saratov and Stalingrad Oblasts" by A.A. German, translated by Irma E. Eichhorn and Vladimir Schenk. "Grandmother, Mother, Daughter" by Lucia Kaa, translated by Nancy Bernhardt Holland. "Gone Without a Trace: The song of the Trudarmee Troops" by Johannes Lotz; translated by Nancy Bernhardt Holland. "Go or Stay? A New Perspective for Russian Germans in West Siberia" published by Info-Dienst Deutsche Aussiedler; translated by Frederick Bolgert. "Trakehnen" by Klaus Hoffmann.

  • Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, (Winter 2000): "The Germans from Russia: Prize-Winning Entries from the 2000 Storytelling Contest" introduction by AHSGR. "A Heritage That Transcends Generations" by Sally Sologuk. "The Grass is Always Greener" by Gerald F. Schmidt. "The New World for Peter and Margaret" by Paul E. Koehler. "The Bull Durham Quilt" by Bette J. Dawson. "Them Bones Will Rise Again" by Kenneth G. Isaak. "The Seven Altenhof's Go to Sea" by Marie E. Korth. "Katherine 1895-1969" by Ruth May Propp. "George and Elizabeth Butherus Schissler" by Mary Louise Schissler Sandau. "Frieburg, Revisited" by Victoria Strieb Smith. New Additions to the AHSGR Library by Jan Roth-Schoonover.

  • Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1, (Spring 2000): On the cover: A group of German Russian refugees shown in Harbin, China, taken around 1932. "The Escape of Volhynian Lutherans from Russia to Harbin, China and Their Resettlement in Brazil" by Virginia Less. "My Life Has Always Been Happy" published by Informatsionno-Metodischeskii Biulletin, Translated by Dr. Robert Meininger. "What's in a Name? Names and Naming Practices Among the Bukovina Germans" by Sophie A. Welisch. "A Letter to My Children: The Memoirs of Arthur G. Rempel" by Arthur G. Rempel. "Mother's Bequest, A Poem" by Elisabeth Dirks Rempel, Translated by her son, Arthur G. Rempel.

  • Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2, (Summer 2001):  "Honoring Arthur E. and Cleora Flegel" by A. Bruce Cropper. "Looking Back:  A Lifetime of Memories and Music" by Adolf Lesser. "The Story of My Tours to the Ukraine" by Wilmer A. Harms, M.D. "Büdingen in the County of Ysenburg as a Recruitment and Gathering Place of the Russian Emigration" by Klaus Peter Decker. "Muffled Voices from the Great Underground:  Understanding the Vagaries of Soviet German Folklore and Poetry" by Timothy J. and Rosalinda Kloberdanz.

  • Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Fall 2001): On the cover: Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeievna (Catherine the Great). This painting was done around 1760 by Rotari. Articles: "Volga Germans in Argentina" by Arnd Schmidt, translated by Robert Meininger; "Catherine the Great" by Jean Adele Roth; "Germans from Russia in Argentina: Their History and Culture" by Carlos Alberto Gonzalez (Buss); "Economic Realities of Our Bukovina Forebears in the Austrian Period (1775-1918)" by Sophie A. Welisch.

  • Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 2001):