Presenter: Dr. Ann Braaten Ann Braaten is an associate professor in the Apparel, Retail Merchandising and Design program at North Dakota State University Emily Reynolds Historic Costume Collection at NDSU, an archive of over 5000 clothing and textile items that reflect the history of the region, the history of fashion and international dress. The collection … Continued
Presenter: Dr. Tatjana Schell Born to a Volga German family, Katrin Schell, Tatjana's mother, spent her early childhood in the 1950s-1960s in the region of Omsk in western Siberia where her parents and their respective families had been brought to following the deportation from their native village of Seewald on the Volga River. Growing up … Continued
Presenter: Allyn Brosz Allyn Brosz is a South Dakota native with German Russian ancestry from Bessarabia and Glueckstal colonies. He retired in 2021 from his career in the U.S. Department of Defense. He is a life Member of AHSGR and GRHS as well as a member of the Glueckstal Colonies Research Association Steering Committee. In … Continued
Presenter: Ann Stewart ANN MARIE STEWART is the Christy Award® winning author of Stars in the Grass, followed up by IPPY award winning Out of the Water, and an October 2022 release of All is Calm, All is Bright. The next book, the narrative non-fiction REMNANTS shares her grandparents’ escape from Russia in 1929. Ann … Continued
Presentation In the fall of 2017, the Oklahoma chapter took on the restoration of the abandoned Mennonite Brethren Cemetery, a few miles north, of Eakly, OK. Their initial findings indicated that there were many issues that needed to be addressed, so they went to work. What they found was an enormous wealth of information and a … Continued
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Ukraine and Russia – a Family at War updates Treffen Tuesday; August 29, 2023 Marilyn (Reh) Murray Marilyn will share updates regarding the Ukraine/Russian war. She has a Murray Method International Center in Ukraine and also one in Russia so is in constant contact with her colleagues/friends in both countries. She will share their personal … Continued
Hans-Christian Petersen is a research associate at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe and a lecturer at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (Germany). Together with Victor Dönninghaus (Lüneburg) and Jannis Panagiotidis (Vienna), he edited the volume Jenseits der ‘Volksgruppe’. Neue Perspektiven auf die Russlanddeutschen zwischen Russland, Deutschland … Continued
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