Batschka Resource Contributor & Translator
 Schwebler, Brad
  Brad has been a part of the DVHH since it began!  Brad is fluent in English and German; and has translated and contributed an enormous amount of cultural and historical works for the DVHH.

Interview with Brad

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Brad has translated the English pages seen at the Sekitsch site of Brigitte and Gunther Wolf.

Contributions:

Translation: Who Are The Donauschwaben?

Village Homeland Donauschwaben [Hochdeutsch - English]
Ballweerer (Barbers)
Translation: Batschka by Josef Schramm:
The History - The Oldest Time
Batschka Churches
Batschka, Climate and Bodies of Water
Batschka, The fruitful land between the Danube & the Theiß
The Magyar Middle Ages
The Rule of the Turks
The New Time
The Romanians, Armenians, Greeks, Albanians & Bulgarians
The Jews and Gypsies
The Slovakians, The Ruthenians & The Slovenians
The Dolls
Traditional dress (Tracht)
Translation: The History of the Batschka by Dr. Viktor Pratscher
Translation: Prehistory of the Region Syrmein / Syrmia (Srem)

Translation: Temeschburg in the Battle Against the Turkish Yoke by Anton Zollner

Translation: Peter Max Wagner (founder of Hilfswerk der Donauschwaben, from Sekitsch in the Batschka)

Translation: Emperor Josef II signing the Settlement Patent

Translation: Danube Swabian Easter Customs Lebzelter & The Easter Customs for the People of the Village of Bulkes by Heinrich Hoffmann

Translation: Customs on Festival Days
Translation: Destitute to America - 1912 by Kurt Aram
Translation: Our Mail in the Changing World (until November 1983) by Anton Zollner

Translated entire book: Mercydorf 1734-1934 by Peter Schiff
Translated almost the entire book: The Germans of the Community of Feketic / Feketitsch by Dr. Viktor Pratscher
Translated almost the entire book: Beschka Homeland Book by Peter Lang
Translation: Sekitsch English Website of Brigitte and Gunther Wolf: Sekitsch 1786 - 1944 a Donauschwaben settlement in the Batschka
Translation: The Last of the German Village Mercydorf by Anton Zollner

Translation: History of Mehala - Franzstadt

Mehala 1960-1975 Photo Gallery - Captions

Translation: Excerpt from Ludwig Karman »Geschichte der Torzsaer Ortsgemeinde und reformirten Kirchengemeinde« (1897) (English translation) Foreword (text version) | Settlement in Hungary (text version) - See: Torschau documents
Translation: My Homeland by Lorenz Senetra of Mercydorf
Translation: Peter Schiff Poetry Collection 1934
 

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