DVHH
Raffle Contributors & Winners . . .
All
current
DVHH Members
are
automatically
entered into any
DVHH raffle and you
need not be
present to win.
The drawing
takes place on
the Saturday of the yearly Landestrachtenfest / Treffen USA &
Canada Labor Day weekend.
The winner(s)
are announced at
the event,
followed by an
announcement to
the DVHH-L mail
list. We
appreciate the contributors of our donated items!
More information about becoming a DVHH Member
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member.
Good luck to you
all!
2011
Place: Landestrachtenfest Mit Tanzwettbewerb Mansfield, OH
3 winners this year . . .
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1st Winner: Rose Mary Keller Hughes of Rochester, NY
Prize: My journey from
the Banat to Canada
by
Nikolaus Tullius - In the first part of this
volume, the author describes life in a
Banat-Swabian village during and after the
Second World War. As a
boy he witnessed the mobilization his father
into the German army. After the war, the
Romania-Germans were disenfranchised,
dispossessed and deported. His mother died
during forced labour in the USSR, while his
father ended up in Canada. The second part of the book deals with the migration of the author to join his father in Canada, and his integration into the new environment.
Contributed by: The Author, Nick Tullius |
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2nd Winner: Kathleen Cullerton of UT
Prize:
Barefoot in the Rubble by Elizabeth B. Walter, which is included in the bibliography of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois.
A book about
Ethnic Cleansing Post WWII.
A Story of Courage.
The author's remembrances
during life in her home
village of
Karlsdorf and later
Rudolfsgnad, her
family's life under the
Partisans, and later trying
to rebuild their lives in a
bombed out Germany.
Contributed by:
The Author, Elizabeth B. Walter
3rd Winner: Helen Dubas of Barto, PA |
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Prize: Children of the Danube
by Henry Fischer - Numerous histories and studies of the Great Swabian Migration of the 18th century have been written and published, and the tragic fate of many of their descendants in our own time has also been chronicled. Much of that research forms the backdrop of "Children of the Danube," which is the author's attempt at telling the stories behind the history. Personal stories that weave the tapestry of the lives of his extended family with those of the other families and individuals who joined them after venturing down the majestic, sometimes turbulent, Danube River, taking them on a quest that is common to all people: the search for the Promised Land.
Contributed by: The Author, Henry Fischer |
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2010
Place: Donauschwaben Landestreffen!
Hosted by
United German-Hungarian
(UGH)
Oakford, Bucks County,
PA
Winner: John E. Busch of
Palatine, IL
Prize: Our Family Record Book - A Beautifully designed album that lets you compile a lasting history of your family, from your great-grandparents to your children. Fill-in pages let you record details of every member of your family - dates and places of birth, character traits, achievements, occupations, and favorite pastimes. Spaces throughout give ideas for adding photographs of your family. Practical guidelines teach you how to research your family history and compile a personal genealogical chart. The "Our Family Tree Record Book" we hope will be a nice addition to your already started library, of which you can pass down to your children.
Contributed by: Jody McKim Pharr of Woodstock, GA |
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2009
2008
Place: Celebrate in
Cleveland! Landestrachtenfest mit Wettbewerb
Winner: Tony Kramlik of West Chester, PA
Prize: Es
War
Einmal -
The
Yesteryears
of
the
Danube
Swabians by
Sister
Mary
Agnes Theiszmann
Pitzer. The title is German, but the text is written in English. It is a novel about the Danube Swabian people from the time of their migration in the 17th, 18th, and 19th century from Germany and why they ventured to the Austrian-Habsburg Emperor's Empire. It features twenty-four black and white pictures by "Stefan Jäger," the famous Danube Swabian artist, depicting this migration and their lives in the new homelands. (269
pp.
©
Heimat
Publishers;
I-SBN
0-9699880-0-1
National
Library)
Contributed by: Jody McKim Pharr of Woodstock, GA |
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