Karen -- Thank you for this detailed description of the museum. Now I really want to go. -- Rita Tomkins -----Original Message----- From: Karen Karbiener via <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> To: donauschwaben-villages <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 1:01 am Subject: [DVHH] Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum, Ulm Hello all, I just returned from a trip to Ulm and to the Donauschwäbisches entralmuseum, and must recommend it highly to those of you interested in isualizing what is often talked about here. The Museum is in a huge, eautiful space near Ulm's train station and the Danube itself (where there s more artwork and signage to view about Ulm's Danube Swabian roots). It s well organized, with 26 different sections (starting with stories of igrations east as early as the 12th century, and ending with a look at urope after 1989, the year marking 'the end of communist dictatorships for he nations of East Central Europe and Southeast Europe'). The sections I found most useful for my research, and most moving, were hose on Danube Swabian everyday life ("The Village: An Orderly Community"; Clothing: Mirror of the Society"; "Residential Life: Showpiece Bed and ummer Kitchen") and the sections on the "Escaped, Expelled, Diplaced" and New Citizens: Arrival and Integration." There is a complete showcase on he post-WW2 camp at Gakowa which includes photographs a song book, and the omespun clothes made by the inmates (my father and grandfather among them). The exhibition that lives with me most closely contained materials from a oal mine in the Ukraine, including postcards and letters from a woman risoner back to Yugoslavia as well as her paintings of the horror of daily ife there. She had the wherewithal to take home a piece of coal. It was erhaps the smallest item on exhibit at the Museum, but it made real and ivid all of my Oma's stories about her time spent in Luhansk. How very owerful a material item can be, in confirming and enhancing flitting emories! The Museum's Director, Christian Glass, was very welcoming and is doing a antastic job developing the public awareness of Danube Swabian history, in ermany and beyond (I first met him when he was on a lecture tour in erbia). And the gift shop has a compelling selection of books to choose rom: I brought home a photo-filled catalogue of the 2008 exhibition Heimat im Koffer," a "Dorfkochbuch" from "Katsch-Neusatz-Kai- Novi Sad, mong other treasures. http://www.dzm-museum.de/deutsch/dzm.html If you're planning a trip, I can recommend the inexpensive and clean B&B otel, which is very close to the Museum. And I must second Christian's ecommendation of restaurant Zur Forelle, where the fresh fish is utstanding and the decor tells a colorful version of our beginnings as a eople. http://www.ulmer-forelle.de/ Alles Gute! Grüße aus New York, Karen Karbiener ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message