These customs, traditions and memories share stories and thoughts relating folkways, holidays, village life, entertainment, family, holidays, weddings and other cultural traditions.
- Alfred Opp Memories and Interviews
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- 1781-1941 A Walk in the Shadow of Our History
- A Bessarabian German Happy New Year
- Alfred Opp's Obituary
- A Memorable Ride in a Horse-Drawn Sleigh - Sliding About Town in Deep Snow
- A Two-Horse Journey to Visit Tante Katja
- Child Rearing - Love, Words and Rod
- Froeliche Wienachten
- Hand Sickles for Harvesting in Teplitz, Bessarabia
- Hefariebala and the German Bake Oven
- How the East Was Won
- I do...A Marriage Made to Fit
- Interview with Alfred Opp
- Part One – Childhood
- Part Two – Food and Drink Customs
- Part Three – Teplitz Community Life
- Part Four – Teenage Years
- Part Five – Wartime in Poland
- Part Six – Surviving Regime Transition
- Part Seven – Horse Sense
- Part Eight – The Slow Road to Freedom
- Part Nine – Post-War Recovery
- Part Ten – A New Life in Canada
- In the Shadow of Time
- Life in a Bessarabian Village - Societal Vices
- Medic - Care
- Memories of Childhood Toys
- Memories of Christmas Food
- Memories of Ostern (Easter)
- Mischt for Fuel
- My Ancestors Proudly Owned Their Land - And So Do I
- Oh, What a Lovely War -- Horse Sense
- Pawns on the World Stage
- Polterabend – Pre-Wedding Activity
- Powdered Milk and Other Discoveries
- Predigt
- Schwabian Burial Customs
- Singing in the Dark
- Something from Nothing - Lumpen-Schuhe and Other Treasures
- Spiritual Training of German-Russian Children and Youth
- Tailor-made Clothes - Fit to Grow Into
- That Old Schnaible House
- The Guard - a Time-out
- The House My Parents Built - My Teplitz Home
- The Market Place
- The Trades as Practiced in the Homeland
- "Too Busy! No Time!" -- Ich habe keine Zeit
- War Costs More than Money – Part I
- War Costs More than Money – Part II
- War Costs More than Money – Part III
- War Costs More than Money – Part IV
- Weapons for Peace - A New Start for a New Time
- XYZ - After the Tears, the Vision
- Christmas
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- Belznickel and Christkindl
- Christmas
- Christmas Celebrations Long Ago
- Christmas and German Russian Family Traditions
- Christmas at Fox Valley
- Christmas at New Leipzig, North Dakota
- Christmas in Germany in the 1940s
- Christmas - Knecht Ruprecht
- Christmas Memories & Traditions
- Christmas Memories on the Wolf Farm
- Christmas - Java, South Dakota
- Christmas in a Russian-German-Canadian Family
- Christmas Tree Lights
- Disillusion – Austria 1940
- Froehe Weinachten!
- German Christmas Traditions
- Grandpa Salomon's German Christmas Traditions
- Memories of Christmas
- Memories of Christmas in Strasburg, North Dakota 1938-1958
- Memories of Christmas with the Ebach’s
- Miller Christmas in Lehr, North Dakota
- Pelznickel and Kristkind
- Counties, Towns & Villages
- Dr. Hans Ternes Memories
- Easter
- Entertainment
- Family
- Farming
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- Barnyard Calling
- Binding, Shocking, Heading and Threshing of Wheat in Kansas
- Header and Farming
- Header Box and Harvesting
- Heddering and Bindering
- Russian Thistle in North America
- Stooking in Alberta, Canada
- The Header and Shocking in the Grain Fields
- Threshing
- Threshing and Schocks in the Grain Fields
- Wheat Harvesting
- Folklore
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- Brauche, Folk Healing of the Germans from Russia
- Brooms of Our Ancestors
- The Cane Story
- German-Russian Brewing
- Gopher Tails
- Home Medicinal Remedies
- House Construction
- Immigrating to America
- Language
- Norka Days at Stony Plain, Alberta
- North Dakota Country School
- The Old Country
- Pied Piper of Leola
- Prayer
- Stoneboat
- Washing
- Witchcraft
- Food
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- German-Russian Brewing
- Bread Baking
- Butchering Day
- Cheese
- Cream Separators and Cows in General
- Everlasting Yeast
- German and Russian Holiday Food
- Kholodetz
- Kuga, German-Russian Christmas Cooking
- Pickling in Bessarabia
- Pinch of Salt
- Roger's Golden Syrup Pails
- Root Beer
- Schnaepple
- Searching for Ethnic Food on the Northern Plains
- Thanksgiving Traditions
- Holidays
- Weddings
- Louise (Regehr) Wiens Memories
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- A Name is a Name
- Back to the Roots
- Canadians and Their Coffee
- Funeral of Irene’s Mother
- Interstate 75 and Crimea
- It’s a Small World
- Monuments Men
- My Mother Turns 95. And She Never Wore Black
- My Past Meets My Present: Leipzig, Bessarabia 2015
- Nuts, Figs and Halva
- Oh Canada
- Oh Tannenbaum
- Old Suitcase
- Olympic Fever
- Onkel Hans and the Mushrooms
- So, this is Easter
- Tante Hulda Turns Ninety
- The Briefcase
- The Cattle Car: A Refugee Journey
- The Christmas Shawl
- The Cup
- The Day We Made Perishki
- The Dough
- The Funeral of My Mother
- The Memories Come to Life
- The Prom Dress and the Sewing Machine
- The Pyrex Bowl
- The Snow
- The Stork
- Uncle Harri in Belgium
- World Soccer Match
- Your Cousins Live Where?