The annual AHSGR Storytelling Contest invites members and nonmembers to capture the GR experience through storytelling. Both adults and youth can participate by submitting stories related to Germans from Russia. This year, youth under age 14 are invited to submit a video story. They can be either fiction or non-fiction. Winning stories are presented at the Folklore Symposium at the annual AHSGR Convention and prize money is awarded!
2023
Adult Winners & Honorable Mentions:
Kim Philp – “Voices from the Past”
Irene Reader – “How One Book Led to Another”
Kim Kraushar – “The Table the Tells Stories”
Donita Rotherham – “Larceny or German Russian Bigotry?”
Richard Hieb – “Lodis Germans from Russia”
Anne Stang – “Natures Bounty”
Susan Hammond – “Grandma and Me”
2022
Adult Winners & Honorable Mentions:
Mike Meisinger – “An Extraordinary ‘Ordinary’ Farmer”
Rosalinda Kloberdanz – “A Day of Song and Celebration”
Anthony Cocoran – “From one of our own: The Victory of Gertude Detzel”
Anne M. Stang – “German, Anyone?”
Shirley A. Pfeifer – “My Great Grand Parents”
2021
2019
July 23 – 27, Lincoln, Nebraska
Adult Winners & Honorable Mentions:
Why I am Passionate About Genealogy