View in Kassel.

Mary Jaeger Marando, Crown Point, IN and Rosemary Ripplinger Schwan, Devils Lake ND, standing by an old well near Elsass.

A young boy in the Kutschurgan villages with his mother and grandmother guiding the cows home to their owners.

Andrey Alekcevich Oleynik, Director of the school in the village of Zhcherbanka (formerly Elsass, Kutschurgan District), shows students of village map presented by Journey to the Homeland tour group, visiting the school.

Standing in the Kutschurgan villages near Elsass: (L-R) Rosemary Ripplinger Schwan, Wally Duchscher, Clarence Keller, Mary Frances Filer Jacobson, Naomi Filer Reimer and LeRoy Keller.

Ukrainian women selling their handmade brooms, cheese sand seeds in Odessa, the largest outdoor market in Ukraine and one of the largest in the former Soviet Union.

Ukrainian women selling black seeds, fish and cherries at the Kutschurgan market located near the former German villages of Straßburg (today Kutschurgan). Many people also from nearby Moldova visit this market.

Views at the Odessa outdoor market, May, 1998.

Former German home in Freudental near Odessa, Ukraine. Photo by Duane Retzloff, Mountain View, CA.

German gravestones in Freudental near Odessa, Ukraine. Photo by Duane Retzloff, Mountain View, CA.