Journey to the Homeland Tour: Recent submissions

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    • Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #15 

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      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 

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      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 #14 

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      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 #13 

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      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 #12 

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      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 #11 

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      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 #10 

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      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 #9 

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      Anton and Rosina Wart were hosts to the Herman for overnight stay in Glueckstal. (l-r): Herb Herman Jr. San Jose, CA, Anton and Rosina Wart, Glueckstal, and Herbert Herman Sr, Gackle, ND. Photograph by Charles and Melinda ...

    • Hoffnungstal, Odessa District #32 

      Unknown author (2008-05)
      Pastorat. Photographs by Melvin Bender.

    • Hoffnungstal, Odessa District #31 

      Unknown author (2008-05)
      Next to Pastorat. Photographs by Melvin Bender.

    • Hoffnungstal, Odessa District #30 

      Unknown author (2008-05)
      Building by Pastorat. Photographs by Melvin Bender.

    • Hoffnungstal, Odessa District #29 

      Unknown author (2008-05)
      School. Photographs by Melvin Bender.

    • Hoffnungstal, Odessa District #28 

      Unknown author (2008-05)
      Hoffnungstal inside church. Photographs by Melvin Bender.

    • Hoffnungstal, Odessa District #27 

      Unknown author (2008-05)
      Hoffnungstal School. Photographs by Melvin Bender.

    • Miscellaneous #32 

      Unknown author (1996)
      Wrought iron cross in Beresan villages.

    • Hoffnungstal, Odessa District #26 

      Unknown author (2008-05)
      Hoffnungstal inside church. Photographs by Melvin Bender.

    • Miscellaneous #31 

      Unknown author (1996)
      (left to right): Margaret Aman Freeman, Redondo Beach, CA; Michael Miller, Fargo, ND; and Al Hausauer, Bismarck, ND; accepts gift of bread in the village of Glückstal (today Glinnoye, Moldova). In the back ground is camerman ...

    • Hoffnungstal, Odessa District #25 

      Unknown author (2008-05)
      Hoffnungstal former church. Photographs by Melvin Bender.

    • Miscellaneous #30 

      Unknown author (1996)
      Mildred (Dockter) Thurn presents gift to women in former German villages.

    • Hoffnungstal, Odessa District #24 

      Unknown author (2008-05)
      Hoffnungstal Cellar. Photographs by Melvin Bender.