Glueckstal Colonies Research Association (GCRA)
611 Esplande
Redondo Beach, CA 90277-4130
gcra31@aol.com

Media Release
May 15, 2004

New German-Russian book and documentary available in July
Updated:

The Glueckstal Colonies Research Association Bicentennial Committee is on track to present the Glueckstal Book and documentary, "Heaven Is Our Homeland: The Glueckstalers in New Russia and North America", in July of 2004. This will be a grand celebration of the founding of our ancestral colonies of Glueckstal, Neudorf, Bergdorf, and Kassel between the years of 1804 and 1810.

Many families from the Glueckstal villages of South Russia immigrated in the late 1800s to the central Dakotas and the West Coast, as well as, the western Canadian prairie provinces.

The West Coast documentary premiere will be part of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Convention, Modesto, CA, and will be shown at 1 PM on Saturday, July 10. It will be a hour-long presentation showing the history of our Glueckstal people in Europe, South Russia, and North America. The script is narrated by Allyn Brosz, a well known researcher of the Germans from Russia.

The Midwestern premiere of the Glueckstal documentary will be held in the auditorium of the North Dakota Heritage Center, Capitol Grounds in Bismarck, and co-sponsored by the State Historical Society of North Dakota and the Glueckstal Colonies Research Association, on July 21 at 7 PM, the evening before the start of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society Convention (July 22-25, Ramkota Hotel, Bismarck).

If you would like a flyer describing the ordering procedure for the Glueckstal book and video and its costs, email: gcra31@aol.com or write: GCRA, 611 Esplanade, Redondo Beach, CA 90277-4130. The prepublication price is good through July 20.

For further information, please consult the recent copies of the GCRA Newsletter, or contact: Wishek native Homer Rudolf, Chair, G200 Project Committee, 4819 W. Seminary Ave., Richmond, VA 23227, email: HRudolf@richmond.edu.

Persons are invited to become members of the Glueckstal Colonies Research Association (GCRA) by contacting: Margaret Aman Freeman, 611 Esplanade, Redondo Beach, CA 90277-4130 (E-mail: GCRA31@aol.com). For more information, go to the GCRA website: www.glueckstal.org