Echoes of the Old Country: Growing Up German-Russian on the Northern Plains

“Unique in its topics and methodology, ‘Echoes of the Old Country,’ reveals purpose and power in childhood memory for the Germans from Russia who survived and prospered on the Northern Plains.

“Historian Jessica Clark’s study draws on nearly two hundred oral interviews collected during the Dakota Memories Oral History Project, conducted from 2005 to 2010. Clark and a team of oral historians and videographers recorded the voices and memories of the participants as they responded to various memory prompts – browsing scrapbooks and diaries or walking through the towns and cemeteries where familiar storefronts and headstones stirred vivid recollections. No history of childhood draws from such a rich history source.”