We are pleased to announce the Peter Hilkes presentation on the War in Ukraine has been rescheduled! Join us Tuesday, July 12th at 2:00 PM Central.  PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE … Continued

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, … 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 … 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 … Continued

January – Ann Stewart, “REMNANTS: A Family’s Escape from Stalin’s Russia and the Child They Left Behind” Presentation: When I was in third grade, my grandfather told me he had … Continued

February – Howard Foote and LaDonna Hunt, “Chapters in Action: Restoration of an abandoned cemetery in Oklahoma” Presentation: In the fall of 2017, the Oklahoma chapter took on the restoration … Continued

March – Brenda Smith, “An Uneasy Neighbor: Parsing a prison record to discover ‘Trapper Frank Weber’” Presentation: Franz "Shorty" Weber was a Polish German immigrant to the USA in 1902. … Continued

April – Lena Wolf, “A graphic novel ‘May the Universe be Your Home!’ about the fate of German families in the Soviet Union” Presentation: In her presentation Lena will show … Continued

May – Dr. Eric J. Schmaltz, “Our Memories Build Our Future: Germans from Russia Still on the Move in the 21st Century” Presentation: This presentation is based on the banquet … Continued

June – Dr. Mila Koretnikov, “Tracing Our Volga-German Heritage: A Comparative Look at Tours to Ancestral Village in Germany and Russia” Presentation: In 2016-2019 the Volga German Tour group – … Continued

August – Marilyn Murray, “Ukraine and Russia – a Family at War updates” Presentation: Marilyn (Reh) Murray will share updates regarding the Ukraine/Russian war.  She has a Murray Method International … Continued

September – Dr. Hans-Christian Petersen, “Dr. Karl Stumpp (1896-1962)” Presentation: Dr. Hans-Christian Peterson presents a special presentation about Dr. Karl Stumpp (1896-1962). Remembered posthumously as the “patriarch of the Germans … Continued