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Item Beresan Villages of Kleinliebental and Mariental #1Former Catholic church in Kleinliebental. Photograph by Michael M. Miller.Item Visit to the Shirokolanovka Boarding School in the former German village of Landau, Beresan District #3Rosa 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 grandmother to the children at the orphanage. Photograph by Elizabeth Madison Williams.Item Visit to the Shirokolanovka Boarding School in the former German village of Landau, Beresan District #8Tanya at the Boarding School. Photograph by Elizabeth Madison Williams.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #15This 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 arrived, the beautiful homes the Germans had built stood vacant - pots and pans and furniture left behind. She picked one she liked, moved in and built a new life for herself and her family. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.Item Visit to the Shirokolanovka Boarding School in the former German village of Landau, Beresan District #9Natasha at the Boarding School. Photograph by Elizabeth Madison Williams.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #5Ron with headstone and children in the village. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #11Americans 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.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #7Lutheran Evangelical Church in Bergdorf; founding plaque reads 1851 with Gerda Fadden in front. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.Item Visit to the Glueckstal Villages #16Herbert 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.Item Visit to the Shirokolanovka Boarding School in the former German village of Landau, Beresan District #2One 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.