German Russian Heritage and Culture

The Germans from Russia Heritage Society collects and preserves folklore, songs, literature, objects of arts and crafts which illustrate and document the style and mode of life, conditions, events and activities, forms and styles of worship, and government of such people while living in German colonies in Russia, as well as after emigrating to the Western hemisphere and the cultural, material, and aesthetic contributions of Germans from Russian or their descendants to the culture and social order of the Western Hemisphere.

Topics :

• Games ... Rätzel
  • Puzzles from Lillian Weigel
• History
  • A Comparison of Anti-German Russia, and the Anti-German Environment of the U.S. during WWI, and its Relation to the German-Russians by Justin Carter
  • Das Erste Telefon by Jim Gessele
  • Lutheran Churches in Russia by R. Reuben Drefs
  • Soviet “Paradise” Revisited: Genocide, Dissent, Memory and Denialby Dr. Eric J. Schmaltz
• Poems, Proverbs and Sayings ... Gedichte Und Sprichwörter
  • Sayings collected by Lillian Weigel
  • Proverbs collected by Lillian Weigel
  • Poems collected by Brother Placid Gross
• Recipes
  • Kuchen: What's In It For Me? by Jim Gessele
• Traditions & Memories
  • Neujahr Schießer by Jim Gessele
• Wine Growing in Bessarabia
  • Wine listing
  • Wine growing photographs