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    • Villages of Sarata, Gnadental, Beresina, Tarutino and Friedenstal, Bessarabia #9 

      Unknown author (2007-05)
      Cemetery at Tarutino. Photographs by Ed Zuern.

    • Viola (Kruckenberg) Schielke Collection 

      Schielke, Viola (Kruckenberg); Schielke, Viola (Kruckenberg) (2013-06-27)
      Twenty German theology, hymnals, history, and education books, dating from 1880 to 1935; a German newsletter, Volksblatt, from 1958; and a hand-spun wool shawl, circa 1880s, which was made by Salome Kruckenberg in Alt-Elft, ...

    • Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #1 

      Unknown author (2002-05)
      Holding the gift of Ukrainian bread and handmade shawl is Rev. Glenn Isernhagen, Longmont, CO (left) and Rev. Delbert Sailer, Thiensville, WI (right). The bread was presented to the Americans as a sign of welcome and ...

    • Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #2 

      Unknown author (2002-05)
      Children and teacher greet the Americans. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.

    • Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #3 

      Unknown author (2002-05)
      Children and staff welcoming the Americans. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.

    • Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #4 

      Unknown author (2002-05)
      American and Ukrainian flags welcome Americans. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.

    • Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #5 

      Unknown author (2002-05)
      Artwork of children on display in the school. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.

    • Visit to the Boarding School at Shirokolanovka #6 

      Unknown author (2002-05)
      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 

      Unknown author (2002-05)
      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 

      Unknown author
      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 

      Unknown author
      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 

      Unknown author
      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 

      Unknown author
      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 

      Unknown author
      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 

      Unknown author
      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 

      Unknown author
      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 

      Unknown author
      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 

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

    • Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #3 

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

    • Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #4 

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