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Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #2

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Children and teacher greet the Americans. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.

Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #3

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Children and staff welcoming the Americans. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.

Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #4

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American and Ukrainian flags welcome Americans. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.

Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #5

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Artwork of children on display in the school. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.

Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #6

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Standing left to right: Volodymyr Honcharenko, Kiev, Ukraine; Boarding School Director; and Michael Miller, Fargo, ND. Miller presents financial donations from Americans. Volodymyr was the English translator and was raised ...

Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #7

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Children at the display the North Dakota handmade quilts and many gifts donated by tour members to the orphanage. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #1

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Tour members traveling from Odessa to the Glueckstal villages in Moldova: sitting (l-r): Violet Miller Ehlers, Lodi, CA, Anna Marie Gulke Hajek, Everett, WA, and Herbert Herman, Jr, San Jose, CA; standing (l-r): Dennis ...

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #10

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These Glueckstal children lead visiting Americans to this German tombstone they had recently uncovered on the school grounds. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #11

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Americans looking at the collective barn in Neudorf. It was built by people living in the village when Stalin's policies were enacted. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #12

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German tombstones were taken from cemeteries and were used to build the Neudorf collective barn. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #13

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Herb Herman Jr. studying the tombstone in the old German cemetary of Bergdorf. His great, great, great, great grandfather Jakob Herman (1778 to 1856) immigrated from Bieselberg Calw-Wuerttemberg, Germany, to become a ...

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #14

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Charles and Melinda Herman Snell, Bismarck, had a wonderful time in Glueckstal with their hosts, Anitoli and Lidiya Ivanova. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #15

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This lady approached the Herman family as they strolled down her street looking for the ancestral Herman home in Bergdorf. It turned out to be her own home. She had lived in it since 1949. She told us that when she first ...

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #16

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Herbert Herman Sr. gets a first look at the Nestor River in Moldova. It looks a lot like the North Dakota prairie where his parents settled near Gackle, ND. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #2

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The Dniester River. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #3

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Ron Vossler with the Wort family in Glueckstal. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #4

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Ron Vossler cleans a newly discovered headstone hoping to decipher information. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #5

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Ron with headstone and children in the village. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #6

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Dennis Batterman presents a quilt to baby Jana. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.

Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #7

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Lutheran Evangelical Church in Bergdorf; founding plaque reads 1851 with Gerda Fadden in front. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.