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 |