Browsing 2000 Journey to the Homeland Tour by Title
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Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Dniester River. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden. -
Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #3
Ron Vossler with the Wort family in Glueckstal. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden. -
Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #4
Ron Vossler cleans a newly discovered headstone hoping to decipher information. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden. -
Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #5
Ron with headstone and children in the village. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden. -
Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #6
Dennis Batterman presents a quilt to baby Jana. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden. -
Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #7
Lutheran Evangelical Church in Bergdorf; founding plaque reads 1851 with Gerda Fadden in front. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden. -
Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #8
Gerda Fadden with Mrs. Wort. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden. -
Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #9
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 ... -
Visit to the Shirokolanovka Boarding School in the former German village of Landau, Beresan District #1
Tetyanna Fix, Deputy Director of the Boarding School, presenting us with the traditional Ukrainian bread. Photograph by Elizabeth Madison Williams. -
Visit to the Shirokolanovka Boarding School in the former German village of Landau, Beresan District #10
Yulya at the Boarding School. Photograph by Elizabeth Madison Williams. -
Visit to the Shirokolanovka Boarding School in the former German village of Landau, Beresan District #2
One of the quilts made by women at English Lutheran Church, Tuttle, ND, is presented to the Boarding School. (l-r): Rose Reimer, Maya, Nadya, Tanya, Yulya and Maria Honcharenko. Photograph by Elizabeth Madison Williams. -
Visit to the Shirokolanovka Boarding School in the former German village of Landau, Beresan District #3
Rosa Reimer who lives in Landau and was born in the neighboring village of Kathariental. She has worked for many years at the orphanage and is known to many Americans and Germans who visit Landau. Rosa is considered the ...