American Historical Society of Germans from Russia

Treffen Tuesday
2023-09-26 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
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 from Russia,” Stumpp is perhaps the most influential person of transnational Russia German diaspora activism and belonged to the ‘grand old men’ of the German “Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland”.
Biography:
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 und Amerika (De Gruyter, 2018). He is working on a critical biography of Karl Stumpp, the “patriarch” of the Russian Germans, and his völkisch legacy. Together with Jannis Panagiotidis (RECET ViennaI he is currently writing a monograph on the history and present of racism against East Europeans which will be published in 2024. Together with Aleksandra Lewicki (University of Sussex) they are also running a project on the discrimination of East Europeans on the German labor market.

AHSGR Book Club
2023-09-18 14:00 - 15:15 (America/Chicago)
September 18, 2023
2:00 pm CDT: Book Club.
We will be reading From the Steppes to the Prairie: The Germans from Russia migrations told by the Zahl and Schissler families by Kara Louise Hefner.

These are stories of her Germans from Russia great-grandparents, told in their own words from diaries, interviews, photos, scrapbooks, historical records and family accounts. This book is a companion to Gumma’s Recipe Book: Celebrating Germans from Russia food and memories from the Zahl family.

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Treffen Tuesday
2023-08-29 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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 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 responses regarding the current war crisis.
Photos and videos from her colleagues in Ukraine will be shown.
She also worked with a group of Ukrainian war refugees in Chicago recently and will share regarding that experience.
Biography:
Recognized internationally as an educator, theorist, author, and psychotherapist, Marilyn was a pioneer in the treatment of trauma, abuse and deprivation, and their correlation with addictions. She began creating and teaching her Murray Method theory and treatment modalities starting in 1983. She has taught her method for universities in the US and internationally with students from 40 countries.
From 2002 to 2018, she lived and worked nearly half-time in Russia where she presented her method to over 4,000 health professionals and clergy in the former USSR. She also has been a guest professor at major Russian universities including Moscow State University. There are Murray Method International Centers in Russia, Ukraine, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Her paternal grandparents were born in small villages near Saratov and immigrated to America. Unfortunately, their families who remained in Russia suffered greatly under the Stalinist terror and repression. Marilyn has visited her family villages numerous times and has a special love for this country. She also has cousins in Siberia and other parts of Russia.
She has been a life member of AHSGR since 1998 and has shared her knowledge of Russia at several AHSGR conventions.
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AHSGR 2023 Annual Convention Registration
2023-08-03 - 2023-08-05 | Doubletree by Hilton Greeley at Lincoln Park, 919 7th St, Greeley, CO, 80631, United States
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AHSGR 53rd Annual Convention
2023-08-03 - 2023-08-05 | DoubleTree by Hilton at Lincoln Park, 919 7th St, Greeley, CO, 80631, United States
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Treffen Tuesday
2023-06-27 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
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 – Dr. Mila Koretnikov, Sergey Koretnikov and Dr. Brent Mai, took approximately 250 people from the USA, Canada, and Argentina on tours to the Volga German Colonies of their ancestors in Russia. Although they planned to expand the tours to Siberia, the current situation in Russia made it impossible to do so.
People continued to ask about future travel and the Volga German Tour group decided to take interested people to their ancestral homes, their German origin homes, in Germany. In 2022-2023 forty-four people visit their villages of origin in Germany.
Although Mila and her group thought that the tours would be very different from the tours to Russia, they were in for a surprise. What they found was that the trips to villages in Russia and Germany were more similar than expected.
Join us on June 27, at 2:30 pm as Dr. Mila Koretnikov shares the similarities and differences they found doing numerous tours to both Russia and Germany.
Biography:
Dr. Mila Koretnikov is a lecturer and coordinator of the Technical English program at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe, Germany, and a lecturer in intercultural communication at the Cooperative University of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Dr. Koretnikov grew up in Saratov, Russia in a Volga-German family and holds degrees from Saratov State University. She did her post-doc study at the University of Wyoming and taught summer courses for K-12 teachers at Otero Junior College, La Junta, Colorado.
Mila Koretnikov has been doing research in Russian archives for more than 20 years helping hundreds of individuals from the USA, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, and Canada find information on their ancestors. In 2016-2019 together with Dr. Brent Mai she led tours to Volga-German ancestral villages in Russia and starting with 2022 – to Volga-German ancestral villages in Germany.
She has lived in Germany since 2006.

AHSGR’s Bunnock Day and Launch of South Bottoms Historic Tours
2023-06-24 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | AHSGR Headquarters, 631 D St., Lincoln, NE, 68502, United States
Visit AHSGR’s campus in the Historic South Bottoms District in Lincoln, Nebraska, for a day of fun and learning! Try your hand at the classic German-Russian game, Bunnock, and go on our new walking tour of the historic neighborhood and learn about the influence of German-Russian immigrants in its development. Enjoy light refreshments, guided tours of campus, and instruction in the game of Bunnock.
Cost: Suggested Donation

AHSGR’s Technology “Office Hours”
2023-06-09 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | AHSGR Headquarters, 631 D St., Lincoln, NE, 68502, United States
AHSGR’s technology staffer, Jonathan, will be available to assist members with basic technology questions and training relating to our website, online resources, signing up for events and purchasing tickets, using our online store, and other skills that will help our members interact with us. Office hours are in-person or online but sign-up is required for 15-30 minute appointments. To reserve your time slot, please contact egengenbach@ahsgr.org or call 402-474-3363, ext. 101
Cost: Open to Members Only-donations accepted

Temporary Exhibit: Bunnock
2023-06-01 | AHSGR Headquarters, 631 D St., Lincoln, NE, 68502, United States

Treffen Tuesday
2023-05-30 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
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 talk given at the 2022 AHSGR International Convention held in Lincoln, Nebraska. It reflects on the group’s history, including “The Double Stigma” as Germans and Russians during the two world wars and Cold War period, and its overcoming of occasional adversity in the new homelands. It also considers the group’s global success story in many fields of endeavor. It concludes about the ways in which the group has reached an inflection point, “coming full circle” at this time in its development, and reflects on where German from Russia descendants find themselves today.
Biography:
Eric J. Schmaltz earned a Ph.D. in History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002. Since 2005, he has taught Modern European, American, and World History at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva and in 2019 began serving as Departmental Chair of Social Sciences. In 2014, he received the John Barton Distinguished Teaching and Service Award at his university and has been nominated for it on four other occasions. His research concentrates on Modern Germany and Modern Russia with an emphasis on ethnic and nationality issues, as well as German migration topics.
Over the past three decades, he has contributed a variety of articles and translations to AHSGR, GRHS, and the North Dakota State University Libraries in Fargo and has given frequent public talks both at home and abroad. His other articles and reviews have appeared in local newspapers, magazines, interdisciplinary journals, and major international edited volumes. From 2010 to 2020, he served as editor of the GRHS Heritage Review quarterly. Since 2008, he has served on the AHSGR Journal’s editorial board as well. He is also co-founder and co-director of the endowed Northwestern Oklahoma State University Institute for Citizenship Studies and since 2021 is the Donovan L. Reichenberger Endowed Chair in History.

AHSGR Book Club: The Last Green Valley
2023-05-22 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
Join us in a book club discussing of The Last Green Valley by best-selling author Mark Sullivan. Mark will be speaking at the AHSGR Convention in Greeley, Colorado.

The Last Green Valley is a work of historical fiction, inspired by a true story. The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already living under Stalin’s horrifying regime, Emil and Adeline decide they must run in retreat from their land with the wolves they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom. Caught between two warring forces and overcoming horrific trials to pursue their hope of emigrating to the West, the Martels’ story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love, faith, and one family’s incredible will to survive and see their dreams realized.

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More information about convention here: AHSGR 2023 Convention

Treffen Tuesday
2023-04-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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 the coloured pages from her upcoming graphic novel, which hopefully will be available by the end of 2023. Those of you fortunate to attend the 2022 Treffen Tuesday presentation will recall the story of the deportation and how Lena learned of her heritage. This is a continuation of that family history.
Attached below is a page from her graphic novel which depicts German speaking people leaving Russia for North-and South America. Lena’s family stayed behind in the Soviet Union and the graphic novel is their story.
Biography:
Lena Wolf was born in Latvia and grew up in Kazakhstan and later in Germany. Her parents are Germans from the Russian Empire.
Her grandparents along with her parents, who were very young, were deported from German-speaking villages in Ukraine to Kazakhstan in 1941. They were put into special settlements and had to live there until December 1955, 10 years after the end of WWII. They had no rights and were not allowed to leave the special settlements. Leaving their settlement resulted in severe punishment, up to execution.
Escaping the special settlement is exactly what Lena’s grandma Josephine did. Josephine wanted to go back to her village in Ukraine. She took her young son Adam with her, Lena’s father. They were arrested and Josephine was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in the Gulag, Vorkuta, located 150 km north of the artic circle. Lena’s father was sent to a Ukrainian orphanage.
This is just one of the stories that made Lena want to write the graphic novel about the Germans from Russia, people who stayed behind in the Soviet Union. She wants the world to know what happened to our people.

Spring Open House
2023-04-08 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | AHSGR Headquarters, 631 D St., Lincoln, NE, 68502, United States
April 8th
Cost: Donation
Time: 1pm-4pm
Join us and Friedens Lutheran Church as we resume our tour season of the historic buildings on the AHSGR campus in Lincoln’s South Bottoms. Light refreshments, an egg hunt and games with prizes, and more. Come learn more about the German Russian heritage in your own hometown.

Egg Hunt Starts at 2:00 PM

Temporary Exhibit: Hattie Plum Williams
2023-04-01 | AHSGR Headquarters, 631 D St., Lincoln, NE, 68502, United States

Treffen Tuesday
2023-03-28 17:30 - 18:30, 2023-03-28 17:30 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
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. By 1913 he had followed railway building to northern British Columbia where he tried farming before finding his solitary future as a fur trapper. Starting from Shorty’s 1940 prison admission form, Brenda L. Smith has discovered his journey across North America to his life on the trap line on the northeastern slopes of the Rockie Mountains.

Biography:
Brenda L. Smith is a Canadian historian and consultant with comprehensive in journalism, cultural trusteeship, and community development. She presents programs that teach family history research methodology. Brenda’s interest in historical research stems, in part, from her German grandparents’ origins in the Volga, and accounts of survival crossing North America, and achieving a new home in northeast British Cumbia. This spring Brenda will co-present Unlock Your Family Story: Writing and Publishing zyou Family History for Island Mountain Arts in Wells, BC.

AHSGR Intro to German Russian Genealogy
2023-03-13 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | AHSGR Headquarters, 631 D St., Lincoln, NE, 68502, United States
Intro to Germans from Russia Genealogy
March 13th
Cost: Free to members and $20 to nonmembers; Sign up is required
Limit: 15 people
Time: 1pm-4pm

Genealogist and long-time AHSGR member Mike Meisinger will provide an overview on how to start your journey to discover your German Russian roots including: how to find your ancestors’ Russian village, resources available based on that information, and how to find the German origin of your ancestors before they migrated to the Russian Empire. Attendees will also have an hour and a half to tour the library and archives, familiarize themselves with what is available onsite and online, and talk to the Librarian and Archivist and the presenter. Make sure to sign up by March 9, 2023. (Presentation will be filmed and placed on website for members-only access after March 22)

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RootsTech 2023
2023-03-02 - 2023-03-04
Visit AHSGR’s booth at the 2023 RootsTech Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The conference will be held March 2-4, 2023, both in-person and virtually. Registration is open now.

Treffen Tuesday
2023-02-28 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
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 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 lack of information about the people buried there. Initially the investigation uncovered 4 visible head stones and a memorial stone that had been erected in 1998 to take the place of all the missing grave markers. Many birth and death dates were missing, one birth date off by 30 years and much, much more.
Biographies:
Howard Foote
Howard grew up on a farm near the small town of Bessie, Oklahoma, a settlement of Germans from Russia from Ukraine. He was originally taught to speak German but as soon as he started Sunday school all classes were in English, and he completely forgot all his German except for a memorized short prayer.
Living in a Mennonite community he heard the low German Plautdietsch and decided to take German in college. He graduated with a degree in Mathematics and a minor in German from Tabor College. He became involved with the Central Oklahoma Chapter in 2006 and served as president of the chapter from 2013 – 2015. He is an avid researcher and is involved with the Facebook group of Mennonite Genealogy and History.
Ladonna Hunt
Ladonna was born and raised on a farm southwest of Corn, Oklahoma, a Mennonite Brethren community of Germans from Russia. Although born into a GR family she knew very little of her heritage except she learned that her grandfather had immigrated from Russia, the Ukraine area, when he was 2 years old.
LaDonna spent summers in the wheat field helping her father and after the harvest worked the land on a tractor preparing for the next harvest. She graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University and became a schoolteacher.
She learned more about her heritage when she began working with Howard Foote, her second cousin. Her interest was piqued when she located the 100-year-old cemetery and learned so much more about her GR heritage – a heritage she loves to share with her family.
In the course of events, she also learned that her mother’s parents had come from Russia too, from the Frank area, and that her parents and her brother were members of the Central Oklahoma AHSGR.

AHSGR Book Club
2023-02-27 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us on February 27 to talk about Second Hoeing by Hope Williams Sykes. This historical fiction novel is considered a classic. The plot revolves around the Schreissmiller family and their trials and tribulations as Germans from Russia immigrants working the sugar beet fields. Your purchase through the online store supports AHSHR and its mission.

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Treffen Tuesday
2023-01-31 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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 been imprisoned. “Lubyanka,” he whispered as if I knew what that meant. “In Russia.”
I was horrified, wondering what my grandfather had done to be put in jail. And did this mean we were Russians? Worse yet, Grandpa confessed, to escape, he and Grandma had left a child behind. That didn’t match anything I knew about these two beloved grandparents.
Years later, when I came home from my first year of college, my dad asked me to investigate and record his in-laws’ story, knowing it needed to be preserved for our family history. For the next forty years, I wrote and rewrote, gaining further knowledge through advances in technology and access to information, waiting for the right time to publish the unbelievable story of two German Mennonites from the Crimea. I would learn how everything came down to one critical winter in Moscow 1929 when the rest of the world was falling apart economically.
The presentation will include visuals (photos and documents), stories, and readings from the book.
Biography:
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 also authored Preparing My Heart for Advent, Preparing My Heart for Easter, and Preparing My Heart for Motherhood and writes the column “Ann’s Lovin’ Ewe” for The Country Register. Ann combines her experience in education, musical theatre, and film and television to dramatize her writing.

Book Club
2022-11-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
Join us on November 7 to talk about Then the Rules Changed by Carolyn Zeisset. The author will be there to give background information and hopefully, tell more of the story that comes from her own Mennonite family history.
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WikiTree Genealogy Symposium
2022-11-04 08:00 - 2022-11-05 20:00 (America/New_York)
Visit AHSGR Virtual Booth at WikiTree’s 14th Annual Genealogy Symposium
AHSGR is participating in WikiTree’s 14th Annual Genealogy Symposium November 4-5, 2022. The event is free to attend; there will be many videos to view on Friday that leads into presentations and games throughout Saturday. While people can participate without registering, those who do sign up are eligible for all events, games, and door prizes.
Registration and links to daily itineraries are located on the WikiTree:
Link to the AHSGR WikiTree

Treffen Tuesday
2022-10-25 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
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 the past he served on the AHSGR Board of Directors, worked with Emma Schwabenland Haynes in identifying Germans from Russia in the National Archives and has published articles in AHSGR’s Journals, and Clues. He has also been a presenter at numerous AHSGR and GRHS conventions.
Allyn has a graduate degree in Political Science, Public Administration and Policy, and has studied in Germany on a Fulbright Grant.
Allyn will focus his presentation on the photo taken by Augustus Sherman in 1905 while the family was detained for an immigration hearing at Ellis Island and the subsequent fate of the family once they were admitted. In addition, he will also describe the Ellis Island experience during the peak immigration years of 1900 to 1920.
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Oktoberfest 2022
2022-10-08 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us for a family fun Oktoberfest is TODAY at 4-6:30 PM at the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia at 631 D St. Lincoln, NE.
Free food and drinks will be provided, including runzas from Runza!
Activities include: German Russian games, tours of the museum, and a bouncy house!
You wont want to miss this event!

Treffen Tuesday
2022-09-27 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
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 as the middle child of her family, she enjoyed the life in a tight-knit community of German families, where children played outside even in subzero temperatures, grandmothers ruled the household, and chores were plentiful and to be done in a timely manner.
In 1966, Katrin’s parents decided to move their family back to their Volga homeland, after spending 25 years living in Siberia. After graduating from college, she spent nearly twenty-five years working as a paramedic in the city of Volgograd. Following her family‘s move to Germany in the late 1990s, she was able to continue working in the medical field in the new country.
In their Treffen Tuesday presentation, Tatjana will ask Katrin about her time growing up in a small and tight-knit German community in Siberia and her adolescent years living in the village of Frank on the Volga.

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AHSGR Book Club: Cry Out of Russia
2022-09-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
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Treffen Tuesday
2022-08-30 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
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 houses textile and clothing artifacts from the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at NDSU. Braaten focuses on Germans from Russia families’ shawls that had been passed through the woman’s side of the family to help bring women’s history into focus.
Collection (GRHC) has built a textiles and clothing that is representative of the Germans from Russia (GFR) from the Bessarabian, Black Sea, Crimea, Dobrudscha and Volhynian areas. Originally these textile objectified a member of this ethnic group. Today, they provide evidence of GFR traditions, traits, and experiences. This presentation will highlight GFR textiles and clothing and related oral traditions to give evidence of their adaptation to the many challenges they encountered. The GRHC Textiles and Clothing Collection is a partnership between GRHC in the NDSU Libraries and Education.

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AHSGR 2022 Annual Convention
2022-07-27 - 2022-07-30 | Doubletree by Hilton Greeley at Lincoln Park, 919 7th St, Greeley, CO, 80631, United States
The 2022 annual convention will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska. This will be a hybrid event featuring in-person presentations, but also offering Zoom accessible sessions for virtual participation for some presentations.
Virtual Registration Cutoff
Registration for the virtual convention will be available through Wednesday, July 27th, until 5PM CST.

Treffen Tuesday
2022-07-12 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
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 – Peter is presenting from Munich, Germany.

Peter Hilkes is a very well-known lecturer and researcher at Ludwig Maximillian University and Ukraine Free University in Munich. In addition, he works as a program coordinator for the House of Resources in Munich, a network of Migrant organizations.
He has published on German monitories in the Soviet Union and the successor states as well as on integration issues in Germany regarding transformation in the educational system, with a specific emphasis on Ukraine.
Peter was the head of the information and coordination office for German-Ukraine relations in Berlin (2002-2008) and Senior Civil Society Expert of a non-government organization project at OSCE In Kiev in 2006.
Peter is extremely involved with the current Ukraine situation and the people fleeing to escape the horrors of the Russian invasion of their country.
“War in Ukraine: situation and historical background. The perspective from German Russians”
Peter’s presentation will focus on the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine and the traumatic effect on the people fleeing the invasion of their country.
He will share with us his vast knowledge of the history of Ukraine, their people, and their strong and brave defense of their country. Millions of people have fled Ukraine but many of the husbands and fathers have remained behind to help ward off the invaders. He will provide first-hand information on current events and the desire of a vast majority of migrants who wish to return to their country.
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