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.

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.

Views at the Odessa outdoor market, May, 1998.

Family now living in the former Black Sea German village of Kassel, today near Odessa, Ukraine.

At the cemetery in the ancestral village of Kassel, children visit the grave site of their three- year-old cousin who died having taken an outdated prescription.

German cemetery in Josephdorf near Odessa, Ukraine. Photo by Duane Retzloff, Mountain View, CA.

Woman leading cow down the path in the former German village of Kulm, Bessarabia (today in Ukraine). Photo by Duane Retzloff, Mountain View, CA.

German houses with fences in the former Bessarabian village of Arzis. (Photo by Janice Huber Stangl, June 1, 1998)

Former parish house near Elsass church.

Gerry Walth Sommer finds her grandmother Katherina Hilt Walth's family Hilt home in former Black Sea German village of Hoffnungstal. (Photo by Janice Huber Stangl, May, 1998)