Install Chrome browser and read this article in translation, it is worth it. An article about the Volga Germans, Latvians, Koreans and others relocated in the 1940s to the banks of theYenissey river in Siberia (my father was there too as a kid, even though a more southern location closer to Krasnoyarsk). Young girls ate their fingers to stay alive: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2011/gulag45/00.html Best regards, Sergej Kindsvater Am 10.04.2011 um 09:00 schrieb [email protected]: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Pastors and colonies in Russia (Bill Pickelhaupt) > 2. the question of cannibalism (Suzanne Heinitz-Dodge) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 09:47:20 -0400 > From: Bill Pickelhaupt <[email protected]> > Subject: [GV] Pastors and colonies in Russia > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > A review of the CVGS website shows that some colonies have a reasonable > amount of information about pastors that have served the church and > buildings that have served the congregation during their parish history. > Katharinenstadt is an example. Some detail is not present, but the amount of > detail depends on sources. > > The information on the colony of Naeb includes Lutheran pastors who have > served the parish, but there is no further information on the churches built > in the colony, when they were built, the type of construction, religious > schools, compensation of the pastor, how the pastor was selected, numbers of > seats in the church, any charitable organizations in the colony and the > history of organizational changes in the parish. The organizational > structure should indicate with which colony church records may be found. (It > is easier to find something if you have an idea of where to look). When I > checked my ancestral village of Kind, I find only that it was founded as a > Lutheran colony. That's it as far as religious life. > > This is not to criticize the CVGS website whatsoever. It contains some > marvelous data and is quite user friendly, in my experience. The amount of > detail depends on sources used. It does not have all important information > on the church in the Volga Mother and Daughter colonies. Brent Mai has a > wonderful website; there is room, at this point, for other efforts to help > fill in what we do not know of the Germans of Russia. > > Bill Pickelhaupt > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:19:10 -0600 > From: Suzanne Heinitz-Dodge <[email protected]> > Subject: [GV] the question of cannibalism > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > This coming Monday, April 13, on *PBS*, "American Experience" is airing "*The > Great Famine*". In the trailer, they mention the fact that starving fathers > in Russia (they didn't mention where) were killing their young children and > eating them. > > This probably is worth watching, if you have the stomach for it. (Pardon the > pun) > Suzanne Heinitz-Dodge > > -- > *AHSGR VC for Eckheim, Holstein, & M?ller (Mueller)* > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the GER-VOLGA list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the GER-VOLGA mailing list, send an email to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of GER-VOLGA Digest, Vol 6, Issue 98 > ****************************************