2000 Journey to the Homeland Tour
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Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #1Former Catholic church in Kleinliebental. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #2Former Catholic church in Kleinliebental. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #3Former German house in Kleinliebental. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #4Former German house in Kleinliebental. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #5Cemetery at Mariental. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #6Percy and Lorraine Brossart Zeiler, Didsbury, Alberta, in the Mariental cemetery with village map. Percy's father was born in Mariental. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #7Standing in the cemetery at Mariental: (l-r): Michael Miller, Lorraine Zeiler, Pavel Anselm (Odessa), Percy Zeiler, Chris Klein (Carringtion ND), Dennis Batterman (Imperial, NE), Ann Lesmeister Klein (Carrington, ND) and Pavel Sigov (Tiraspol, Moldova). Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #8Cemetery in Mariental. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #9Church in Mariental. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #1Tour 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 Batterman, Imperial, NE; Gerda Fadden, Arnold Fadden, and Ron Vossler, East Grand Forks, MN. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #10These Glueckstal children lead visiting Americans to this German tombstone they had recently uncovered on the school grounds. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #11Americans 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.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #12German tombstones were taken from cemeteries and were used to build the Neudorf collective barn. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #13Herb 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 founding father of the village of Bergdorf. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #14Charles 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.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #15This 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 arrived, the beautiful homes the Germans had built stood vacant - pots and pans and furniture left behind. She picked one she liked, moved in and built a new life for herself and her family. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #16Herbert 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.Item Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #3Ron Vossler with the Wort family in Glueckstal. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #4Ron Vossler cleans a newly discovered headstone hoping to decipher information. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.