Journey to the Homeland Tour

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The GRHC hosts special tours for individuals and families who wish to travel from the United States and Canada to Germany and Odessa, Ukraine. Travels visit the villages of their ancestors near Odessa, including the former Black Sea, Bessarabian and Crimean German villages. Since the first tour in May 1996, the GRHC has sponsored at least one trip per year. The tour website can be found at https://library.ndsu.edu/exhibits/homeland-tour

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Bundestreffen #6
(1996)
Bundestreffen, June, 1996, Stuttgart, Germany. (left to right): Brother Placid Gross, Richardton, ND; Anton Wangler, Stuttgart, Germany; and Hiller Goehring, Lodi, CA. Tour members visit the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland in Stuttgart. Mr. Wangler is the executive director of the Landsmannschaft with relatives in North Dakota.
Miscellaneous #9
(1996)
Iron cross standing in the cemetery near Kathariental.
Miscellaneous #6
(1996)
Former Catholic church in the village of Speyer (Beresan Enclave) and today a Ukrainian Orthodox church.
Miscellaneous #13
(1996)
New Ukrainian home built for Germans returning from Siberia and Kazakshstan near the former German village of Peterstal (Liebental Enclave) near Odessa.
Miscellaneous #21
(1996)
Interior of the former Catholic church in the village of Mannheim (Kutschurgan Enclave).
Bundestreffen #1
(1996)
Bundestreffen, June, 1996, Stuttgart, Germany. (left to right): Lydia (Schwan) Klein, Esslingen, Germany; Emilie (Bäcker) Schwan, Rechberghausen, Germany; and Edwin Iszler, Streeter, ND.
Bundestreffen #5
(1996)
Bundestreffen, June, 1996, Stuttgart, Germany. Hiller Goehring (left) at the Amerika Haus information tables reviewing maps with Germans who have recently immigrated from Siberia to Germany.
Miscellaneous #30
(1996)
Mildred (Dockter) Thurn presents gift to women in former German villages.
Miscellaneous #32
(1996)
Wrought iron cross in Beresan villages.
Miscellaneous #28
(1996)
(left to right): Tour members Brother Placid Gross, Richardton, ND; two middle persons unknown; and Pius Gross, Phoenix, AZ.
Miscellaneous #15
(1996)
Women in the former German village of Sofiental (today Novosamarka, Ukraine).
Miscellaneous #10
(1996)
Bishop Joseph Werth visiting with Ukrainians while driving from Odessa to his ancestral German village of Speyer.
Miscellaneous #11
(1996)
Distant view of the Catholic church in Karlsruhe (Beresan Enclave).
Miscellaneous #17
(1996)
Barbara Geiger Horn, Yorba Linda, CA, presents school supplies to child in the Glückstal villages, Moldova.
Bundestreffen #2
(1996)
Bundestreffen, June, 1996, Stuttgart, Germany. Former Congressman Toby Roth, speaker at the Bundestreffen with Alice Morgentern, Munich, Germany, as his translator. Mr. Roth's ancestral German villages are of the Catholic Kutschurgan Enclave.
Miscellaneous #3
(1996)
Dr. Dona Reeves Marquardt and Dr. Lewis Marquardt review German archival documents at the Odessa Scientific Library.
Miscellaneous #19
(1996)
North Dakota flag is presented to the Dr. Sergey Schip and Dr. Waldemar Koehn, Bavarian House, Odessa.
Miscellaneous #5
(1996)
Root cellar in the Black Sea German villages.
Bundestreffen #3
(1996)
Bundestreffen, June, 1996, Stuttgart, Germany. (left to right): Pius Gross, Phoenix, AZ, talking to Paul Krüger, Siegen, Germany. Paul's relatives immigrated to Fessenden, Wells County, North Dakota.
Miscellaneous #16
(1996)
Dave Geck, videographer for Prairie Public Television, filming for the Germans from Russia documentary.