The Queen Elizabeth on her German voyage with a soldier on board, in the port of Reni
Dr. Nándor Andrásovits in the company of Bessarabian captains on board the Queen Elizabeth
Babakaj cliff
The Danube from its Donaueschingen source to Passau, with guide
The map of the Danube from its riverhead to the delta, on a scale of 1:300,000
Interview with Helmut Fink
Photos and documents shown during the interview with Guido and Ella Fano
The countries from where the Germans of the ’mother colonies’ (their earliest settelements), living along the Volga and the Black Sea, came; their migrational routes; and the areas populated between 1763-1861
Warsaw
View of the lower village – the long tile-roofed house belongs to Friedrich Heer
View of the upper village from the church tower – with the yards of Rudolf Wornath and Gustav Radies in the foreground: photograph from the early 1920’s
The mingling of peoples and colonization in Bessarabia since 1812
Kogälnik flooded in September 1938 – which happened quite frequently!
Young men from Paris in the Berlin conscript camp at the end of December 1940
A group of girls from Paris in 1941 in the Landau (Hessen) training camp
A group of girls from Paris in 1941 in the Witzenhausen (Hessen) training camp
Young men from Paris in the Berlin conscript camp at the end of December 1940
“Front line builders” in Kiev in 1941 – almost all of them came from Paris and New Paris, and had taken part in a training of several weeks in Vienna.
The map of two districts of the Reich, Wartheland and Danzig-Westpreussen
Map of German settlements in Bessarabia according to the situation of 1940
Map of the Bessarabian village of New-Paris, 1940
Bessarabian Paris
Bessarabian women
Bessarabian group
Bessarabian men showering
Bessarabian family
Bessarabian Germans at mealtime
Bessarabia: A peasant’s team of full blooded horses in Tarutino
Bessarabia: Children of the Practical School of Sarata playing during a break, 1939
Bessarabia: The last wolf killed by German hunters from Baimakilia
Bessarabia: Lunch at harvest time
Bessarabia: Black Sea Beach with a steep coast in Bad Burnas
Bessarabia: Peasant woman and her daughters doing housework
Bessarabia: Turning the dung into “round bricks”
Bessarabia: Threshing in Neu-Posttal
Bessarabia: A peasant’s parlor
Bessarabia: Young boys spending free time on the village street of Friedensfeld
Bessarabia: Confirmation in Tarutino, 1938
Bessarabia: Ship of the resettlers traveling up the Danube to Germany, 1940
Bessarabia: Sport celebration at the High School for Boys in Tarutino
Harvest of "Arbusen" (watermelons)
Bessarabia: Winter in Sarata – shoveling snow
Bessarabia: Pleasure skating on the ice that formed after water flooded the village streets
Bessarabia: Harvest – stacking up "Kopitzen" (hay)
Bessarabia: Karakul flock in Friedensfeld
Bessarabia: Winter landscape – clearing the path
Bessarabia: After a snowstorm in Sarata
Bessarabia: Borodino: Women breaking flax
Bessarabia: Church service in the synod in Church Friedenstal
Bessarabia: Teachers and students of the Werner School, 1939/40
Bessarabia: Family circle on a winter evening, Paris (ca. 1912)
Bessarabia: Husking corn
Bessarabia: Neu-Sarata: Gathering on a winter evening in a peasant’s home
Bessarabia: The fertile black soil of the Bessarabian Steppe
Bessarabia: Gnadenfeld – reading the newspaper after a day's work
Bessarabia: German peasant family in their home garden ca. 1905
Bessarabia: Gnadenfeld: Sunday afternoon chatting on the bench
Bessarabia: Cart at the resettling in 1940
Bessarabia: Young horses on a street in Tarutino ca. 1936
Bessarabia: Calves out to graze
Bessarabia: Farm in Tarutino – horses being watered at the farm well
Bessarabia: Sarata – cleaning the sugar cane
Bessarabia: Market before the harvest in Tarutino
Bessarabia: Factory in Sarata
Bessarabia: Fishing at the Black Sea in Bad Burnas, 1937
Bessarabia: Hare hunt in Sarata
Bessarabia: Fruits of the homeland
March of the “Populist Germans” of Bessarabia and North-Bucherland