General Books

• All Things Decently And In Order and Other Writing on A Germans from Russia Heritage
  • Review of the book by Ron Vossler
• Autumn Thoughts--Under Ruins and Snow: An Experiment in Ethnic Anthology. Two Centuries of German-Russian Poetry, Short Stories, and Essays
• Baby
• Black Sea
• The Braun Family: An Immigration Story
• Catherine: The Volga Flows Forever, Book One
• Catherine's Grandchildren: A Short History of the Russian-Germans Under Soviet Rule
• Child of the Prairie, Man of the World; The Memoirs of LaVern “Vern” Freeh
  With Lori Freeh Tufte
  • Freeh memoir celebrates prairie upbringing, lifetime achievements
  • Book reveiew by Reuben Tschritter, West Fargo, North Dakota
• The Church and the Russian Germans in the Siberian Homeland Today: A Personal Interview with His Excellency, The Most Reverend Joseph Werth, Bishop of Siberia (Available in English, German, and Russian)
• Couldn't Be Better The Russian Farm Community Project
  • Conversation with the author
  • Minnesota-bascked farmer aims to beat odds
  • N.D. native a big help in Russian agriculture
  • Rural issues sow seeds of laughter and tears (and you might learn a little something to)
• The Czar's Germans: With Particular Reference to the Volga Germans
• The Dark Abyss of Exile: A Story of Survival
  • In Service of the German Mother Tongue
  • Review of the book by Geraldine Walth Sommer
  • Review of the book by Dr. Nancy Holland
  • Review of the book by Ron Vossler
  • Review of the book by Dr. Irma E. Eichhorn
  • Dominik Hollman By Ida Bender Volk auf dem weg, Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, Stuttgart, Germany, Special Autumn 2004 Edition, pages 20-25
• Death of a Past Life
  • Review of book by Alex Herzog
  • Review of book by Edna Boardman
  • Living Through a Century: Russian immigrant honored with book based on her war memories By Mardi Suhs, Cadillac News, Cadillac, Michigan, December 13, 2006
  • Through the eyes of a child: Immigrant recalls wartorn childhood of escaping Russia By Mardi Suhs, Cadillac News, Cadillac, Michigan, December 13, 2006
  • News story on WWTV/WWUP Television Cadillac, Michigan, December 12, 2006
    [Download Video 6.65MB] "Nina Katschalin is 100 years Old"
• Deciphering Gothic Records
• A Distant Promise: A New Beginning
  • Review of the book by Edna Boardman
• Dreams Can Come True: An Autobiography
• East German Fate by the Black Sea
• Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862
• Escape by Troika: The World War II Chronicle of a Bessarabian German
  • Review of the book by Edna Boardman
• An Expanded Bibliography and Reference Guide for the Former USSR's Ethnic Germans
  • Review of the book by Edna Boardman
  • Review of the book by William M. Wiest
• Extended Relationships of the Kulm, Leipzig, Tarutino Communities in Bessarabia, Russia
• Fateful Danube Journey: A True Account of an Emigration to Russia 1816 - 1817
• Flotsam of World History: The Germans from Russia between Stalin and Hitler
• Folksongs of Our Forefathers: Liederbuch der Schwarzmeer-Deutschen
• Fond 53: Grossliebental (Mariinsky) Volost Office (1815, 1850, 1852-1920) Guide
• Fond 252: Odessa Office for Foreign Settlers in Southern Russia (1806, 1807, 1814-1834, 1843, 1850) Guide
• Forward in Faith
• Fox Valley Liebenthal Book, 2-volumes
• Frison, Bischof Alexander, Martyer im 20, Jahrhundert (PDF 250MB)
• From Catherine to Khrushchev: The Story of Russia's Germans
• From the Steppes to the Prairies
• The German-American Experience
  • Review of the book by Ingeborg W. Smith
  • Review of the book by Gert Niers
• The German American Family Album
  • The German American Family Album Review by the Fargo Forum.
• The German Canadians 1750 - 1937: Immigration, Settlement & Culture
  • Review of book by Edna Boardman
• The German Colonies in South Russia: 1804to 1904: Volume I and Volume II
• German Immigrants in America: An Interactive History Adventure
  • Review by Edna Boardman
  • Review by Alex Herzog
• The German Russians: Those Who Came to Sutton
• The German-Russians: Two Centuries of Pioneering
• The Germans by the Black Sea Between the Bug and Dnjestr Rivers
  • Review of by Roland M. Wagner
• Germans from Russia in the Yakima Valley, Prior to 1940
• Germans in the Land of the Volga
• The Germans Under the Tsars, Lenin, and Stalin
• Glückstal 1858 Colony Census
• Glückstal Colonies, Births, and Marriages: 1833-1900
  • Comments from Margaret Aman Freeman Coordinator of the Glueckstal Colonies Research Association, Redondo Beach, California
  • Review of the book by Jim Gessele
• Glückstal Colonies Deaths: 1833 - 1900
  • Review of the book by James Gessele
• The Glückstalers in New Russia and North America: A Bicentennial Collection of History, Genealogy & Folklore (hardcover book) and Heaven Is Our Homeland: The Glückstalers in New Russia and North America (DVD, 60-minute documentary)
• The Glückstaers in New Russia, the Soviet Union, and North America
• The Goldade Family History with Memories of the Village Selz and Russia
• Gone Without A Trace: Russian Women in Exile
• The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness
• Heimat, An Epic Novel: Steppes of Russia, My Country, My Home
  • Author to speak on her book about Germans from Russia: April 3 event at Otter Tail is free of charge and open to the public By Sonia Mullally, The Pierce County Tribune, Rugby, North Dakota, March 29, 2003, Page 3
  • HEIMAT: Steppes of Russia Book review by Beverly H. Wigley
  • HEIMAT: Steppes of Russia Book review by Edna Boardman
• Hide Me Within Thy Wounds: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the USSR
  • Review of the book by Edna Boardman
  • Review of the book by Father Christopher Lawrence Zugger
  • Review of the book by Pavel Chichikov
  • Review of the book by Paul Schratz
  • Alexander Frison - 20th Century Martyr
• Historical Sketch of St. Peter's Parish and the Founding of the Colonies of Rastadt, Kathrinenthal and Speier, English text
• Historical Sketches of the Parishes of the Diocese of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan 1930 - 1955
• The History of the Hutterites: Revised Edition
• History of the Volga German Colonists
• History of Tramping Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Holdfast: History and Heritage, Volume 2
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans
  • Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans: Personal Name Index
  • New book published on Germans from Russia
  • Rev. Albert Kern's new book follows journey of Germans from Russia to North Dakota's villages
• Homesteaders on the Steppe: Cultural History of the Evangelical-Lutheran Colonies in the Region of Odessa, 1804 - 1945
• The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild In the Middle of Nowhere: A Memoir
• The Horseman's Graves
• Hutterite CO's in World War I:  Stories, Diaries and other accounts from the United States Military Camps
• The Hutterites: Lives and Images of a Communal People
• Hutterites of Montana
  • Review of the book by Beverly H. Wigley
• I - Alice: Embrace the Yester Years
  • Review of the book by Carol Just Halverson
  • Review of the book by Virginia Byfield
• I Heard My People Cry: One Family's Escape from Russia
• In His Hands: Journey from Bessarabia to America
• In Search of a Home: The Germans from Russia (Auf der Suche nach Heimat: Die Rußlanddeutschen)
• In the Valley of the Kutchergan
• It Was Worth It All
• The Jundt Family History with Memories of the Village Selz and Russia
• The Last Bridge: Her Own Story: Elvera Ziebart Reuer
  • Review of the book by Edna Boardman
• Let's Talk German-Russian with Ernschtina un Hanswurscht
• Leipzig 1905 - 1980
• The Life Story of Dr. Karl Stumpp
• The Maas/Moss and Related Families: Catholic Germans from Russia and
  Romania
• Maggie Visits Grandpa
• Marienberg: Fate of a Village (Marienberg: Schicksal eines Dorfes)
  • Review of the book by Paulette Tobin
• Memories of Friedenstal in Bessarabia 1949
• Memories of the Black Sea Germans: Highlights of Their History and Heritage
• The Migler Family History
• My Home on the Crimean Steppe
• My Hutterite Life
• Neu-Glückstal in the Area of Odessa: A Typical Village of the Germans from Russia
  • Review of the book by James Gessele
• Odessa: Facets of a Changing City
  • Review by Mikhail Golubouski, Odessa, Ukraine
  • Article by Susanne Wiedamann Regensburg, Germany
• Odessa Memories
• The Open Wound: The Genocide of German Ethnic Minorities in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1915-1949 and Beyond. Der Genozid an Russlanddeutschen 1915-1949.
  • The Great Famine - Genocide in Soviet Ukraine
  • Review of the book by J. Otto Pohl
  • Society for German American Studies Newsletter, volume 21, number 2, June, 2000
• Otis: A Novel
• Otto Mueller: A Life Between Stalin and Hitler
  • Review of the book by Edna Boarman
• Our Relatives - The Persecuted
• Our Roots Grew Deep In the Russen Soil
• Paradise on the Steppe: A Cultural History of the Kutschurgan, Beresan, and Liebental Colonies, 1804 - 1972
• Pawns on the World Stage
• Peter Hilkes: Germans from the Former Soviet Union
• Remember Us: Letters from Stalin's Gulag (1930-37): Volume One: The Regehr Family
  • Review by Jon Fear
• Researching the Germans from Russia
• The Rhubarb King
• Ripening Harvest: The Story of St. Joseph's Colony 1905 - 1955
• Russian-German Settlements in the United States (This book will be reprinted later in 2000)
• A Sacred Heritage: Odessa & District
• Sarah, Plain and Tall
• The Scandinavian American Family Album
• Second Harvest: Immigrant Stories from Bessarabia of Hard Beginnings in the Days of One-Share Ploughs and Spinning-Wheels
• Ships of Our Ancestors
  • Review of the book by Geraldine Walth Sommer
• Short History of Five Colonies: Founded between 1891 - 1902: East of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Skylark
• Songs We Love to Sing II
• Spanning 4 Nations:1770 to 1985
• St. Joseph's Colony: 1905 - 1930
• Though My Soul More Bent: Memoir of a Soviet German
  • Book review by Carol Just
• Through the German Colonies of the Beresan District and Colonist Tales
  • Review of the book by by Edna Boardman
• Thunder on the Steppe: Volga German Folklife in a Changing Russia
• The Tragedy of the Soviet Germans: A Story of Survival
• Twelve German Tales from Russia. Twelve Tales of Fantasy and the Supernatural
  • Review by Edna Boardman
• The Volga Germans
• Waiting for Otto
• The Way It Was: A Family History and Autobiography
• We Ate the Salt of Russia: Stories of People Forgotten at Home
• We Are Americans: Voices of the Immigrant Experience
• Wedding in the Darkness
• When the War Is Over ...
• Why are you still alive?: A German in the Gulag
  • NDSU Libraries publishes German-Russian who survived Gulag in Siberia, Russia
  • Order of Merit Awarded to Georg Hildebrandt
  • Review of the book by Edna Boardman
  • Review of the book by Richard Kisling, editor, California District Council Report, Fall, 2001
  • Why are you still alive?: A German in the Gulag, Book review by Dr. Lawrence Klippenstein
  • Review of the book by Katie Funk Wiebe, Mennonite Weekly Review, Newton, Kansas, December 6, 2001, Page 4
  • Why are you still alive?: A German in the Gulag. Book review by Victor R. Koop, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
• George Hildebrandt, Heidelberg, Germany, July, 2003
• Why I Never Called Death the River, and Other Voices from the Valley of Hope: A Prairie Album
  • Review by Edna Boardman
• Wir Wollen Deutsche Bleiben: The Story of the Volga Germans
• Witnesses for Christ: A German 20th Century Martyrology:
  German-Russian Bishops, Diocesan Priests and Priests from Religious Orders
  • Alexander Frison - 20th Century Martyr