Treffen Tuesday, April 30th – Allyn Brosz
A German from Russia Dreams of Karakul Sheep: C. C. Young and His Return to RussiaThis presentation will provide an overview of Carl Young’s amazing and unusual career.
A German from Russia Dreams of Karakul Sheep
Allyn Brosz presents A German from Russia Dreams of Karakul Sheep: C. C. Young and His Return to Russia. (Treffen Tuesday, Apr. 2024)
Influence of the Moravian Church Among Protestant Volga German Colonies
Presented by Fabian Zubia. (Convention 2022)
Origins of the Families of Colony Dönhof
Fabian Zubia presents the history of this colony. (Convention 2022)
Russlanders: Mennonite German Russian Immigration to Canada
Wayne Garman's presentation shares the story of an individual who turned their desperate plans of immigration into reality. (Convention 2022)
Historical Background of Kazakhstan
Dr. Mike Brown discusses an important historical venue for German from Russia: Kazakhstan. (Treffen Tuesday, Nov. 2021)
German Lutherans in Central Siberia
Dr. Alexey Streltsov presents German Lutherans in Central Siberia, St Mary's Church in Tomsk as a Case Study. (Treffen Tuesday, Jun. 2021)
Jacob Mittlestadt Family at Ellis Island
Allyn Brosz presents, The Jacob Mittlestadt Family at Ellis Island: An Iconic Photo Re-examined. (Treffen Tuesday, Oct. 2022)
Germans in the Towns of Tsarist Russia and the early Soviet State
Reinhard Nachtigal discusses the Urban Germans located in the larger cities in Russia. (Virtual Convention 2021)
Post WWII German Russian Refugee Letters
Torie Jones presents: If God Would Have Mercy: Post WWII German Russian Refugee letters. (Virtual Convention 2021)
German Russian Community in WWI
Ulrich Merten explores events lived by German Russians up to and during WWI. (Virtual Convention 2021)
Go North Young Man
Wayne Garman tells the story of why immigration from the US to the Canadian prairies flourished from 1896 to 1914. (Virtual Convention 2021)
Intersecting Lives and Fates
Eric Schmaltz tells the story of one ethnic German family near Odessa during Communist oppression. (Virtual Convention 2021)
Letters, Genealogy, and Emails
Fabian Zubia Schultheis explores the diverse ways families connected over multiple migrations and continents. (Virtual Convention 2021)
An Uneasy Neighbor
Brenda Smith presents an Uneasy Neighbor: Parsing a prison record to discover ‘Trapper Frank Weber.' (Treffen Tuesday, Mar. 2023)
Dr. Karl Stumpp (1896-1962)
Dr. Hans-Christian Petersen's history of the "patriarch of the Germans from Russia," Dr. Karl Stumpp. (Treffen Tuesday, Sep. 2023)
Story of the Holodomor 1931-1933
Wayne Garman details the history of the Holodomor, 1931-1933, in Ukraine and parts of the USSR from the perspective of Germans who lived through it. (Treffen Tuesday, Jan. 2024).