Journey to the Homeland Tour

 

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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  • Miscellaneous #32 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Catholic church in Alsace, France.

  • Miscellaneous #31 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Church in Alsace, France.

  • Miscellaneous #30 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Village sign of Wintzenbach, Alsace, France.

  • Miscellaneous #29 

    Unknown author (1997)
    (l-r): Tour members Bruce Mehlhaff and Mary Lou Leintz Bueling with Elvira Zaharova, Odessa Intourist, Odessa, Ukraine.

  • Miscellaneous #28 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Farm home in Alsace, France.

  • Miscellaneous #27 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Tour members at Seltz, Alsace, France.

  • Miscellaneous #26 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Ingo Isert, curator of the Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien in Stuttgart, identifies immigration map for tour members.

  • Miscellaneous #25 

    Unknown author (1997)
    (l-r): Ruth Klötzel and Dorothy Bader Breitling at the offices of the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Miscellaneous #24 

    Unknown author (1997)
    1997 tour group members in front of Odessa Airport.

  • Miscellaneous #23 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Ducks are abundant throughout former German villages.

  • Miscellaneous #22 

    Unknown author (1997)
    German cow in Ukrainian field.

  • Miscellaneous #21 

    Unknown author (1997)
    (l-r): Cora Wolf Tschaekfoske, Viola Wolf Bertsch, Audrey Bentz and Rev. Myrin Bentz standing in front of former Lutheran church in Odessa.

  • Miscellaneous #20 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Mary Lou Bueling (left) visits with Krasnoe school librarian and teacher about textbooks used.

  • Miscellaneous #19 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Mary Lou Leintz Bueling (left) and Michael Miller (right) present United States flag to teachers at Krasnoe school (former Bessarabian German village of Krasna, today in Ukraine).

  • Miscellaneous #18 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Former German church in villages.

  • Miscellaneous #17 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Cemetery in Ukrainian pasture.

  • Miscellaneous #16 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Distant view of a former German village.

  • Miscellaneous #15 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Cattle in the pasture.

  • Miscellaneous #14 

    Unknown author (1997)
    Ron Vossler visiting with an ethnic German.

  • Miscellaneous #13 

    Unknown author (1997)
    (l-r): Loretta Mitzel Huschka and Joan Andrews Pope at store in Odessa.

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