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A Pebble in my Shoe
Author: Katherine Hoeger-Flotz

This book is similar to the Gakowa Memories but much more detailed.  It also contains the story of her husband, George, whose family left their town Bezdan in Oct. 1944 before the camps started.  His story is just as interesting as Katherine's.  Click here for more information
 
   
   
 
A Terrible Revenge
Author: Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Charles M. Barber

The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950.  The tragedy of the largest ethnic-cleansing event in history.  Heimat Publishers, contact Frank Schmidt
 
     

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AVNOJ-Regulations & the Genocide of the Germans in Yugoslavia between 1944 -1948
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Note: AVNOJ (Antifašističko V(ij)eće Narodnog Oslobođenja Jugoslavije), standing for "Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia", was the political umbrella organization for the people's liberation committees that was established on November 26, 1942 to administer territories under their control. It was under the political leadership of the main resistance forces of Yugoslavia, during the Axis occupation of World War II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVNOJ
     

 
 
 
Banater Bilder
by Konschitzky, Walter

Reportagen und Berichte aus dem Dorfleben / Reports on Village Life
Page Heading by Jody McKim
5 Vorbenerkung
9 Auf Der Heide
26 In Der Hecke
43 Ein Stuck Heimat Bewahrt
53 Ein Tag Fur Stefan Jager
71 Zwischen Ankunft und Abfahrt
85 Lebeb Mit Dem Fluss
105 Im Geburtsort Muller-Guttenbrunns
119 Gemeinsame Wege
129 Endstation Liebing
149 Wo Fisch Und Reis Zu Hause Sind
163 Tiroler Im Banat
171 Am Steierbach, Im Steirawald
193 Die Deutschböhem Im Bergland
210 Das Dorf In Der Stadt
223 Mut Nach Hundert Jahren
240 Photos by the author
Page Heading - translations by Diana Lambing
5 Introduction
9 On the heath
26 In the hedgerow
43 A piece of Heimat preserved (Heimat recollections
53 A day for Stefan Jäger
71 Between arrival and departure
85 Life with the river (if it's Leben, and not Lebeb)
105 In Muller-Guttenbrunn's birthplace
119 Mutual ways
129 Terminus - Liebing
149 Where fish & rice are at home ('Reis' = rice?)
163 Tirol people in the Banat
171 At Steierbach, in Steira forest
193 The German Bohemians in the mountain region
210 The village in the town
223 Courage after a hundred years
240 Photos by the author
     
 
Banat-Topola’s Schwaben  1791-1945
Author: Jacob Steigerwald

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Barefoot in the Rubble
Author: Elizabeth B. Walter

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.
     
 
Between Hitler & Tito - Disappearance of the Ethnic Germans from the Vojvodina
Author: Zoran Janjetovic, Dr. w/Institute For Recent History of Serbia

Purchase book via: Public Affairs Office, University of Mary, 7500 University Drive, Bismarck, ND 58504. It is $25 and will be sent to you from Belgrade (4-6 weeks).
     
 
Borne on the Danube
Author: Ruth Elizabeth Melcher

Borne on the Danube, about her father’s life as a Danube Swabian growing up in Hungary, his WWII experiences and his immigration to the U.S.  Copies are now available from:  Ruth Melcher, 4624 Bruce Ave., Edina, MN  55424; phone:  952-920-3061.  Cost:  $12.95 plus $3.25 shipping/handling.  See: The Town Crier by Ruth Melcher
     

 
 
 
Children of the Danube
Author: Henry Fischer

Mr. Fischer from Hrastovac

 

     
   
 
Der Große Schwabenzug
Author: Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn

Sechstes bis Adptes Taufend??? Verlag (publisher) L. Staackmann , Leipzig  1914

 
     
 
Die Donauschwaben Bild eines Kolonistenvolkes
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Bild eines Kolonistenvolkes
Gauß, Adalbert / Weidenheim, Johannes. Publisher: Pannonia-Verlag, 1961.
ASIN: B0000BIDL0
     
 
Die Donau Schwaben
Author: Ingomar Senz

Book (Illustrated), 240 pages, Publisher Langen Müller, München, 1994. ISBN: 3784425224

 
     

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Die Banater Schwaben
Author: Anton Valentin

kurzgefasste Geschichte einer südostdeutschen Volksgruppe ; mit einem volkskundlichen Anhang, München 1959. 118 pages. Publication of the Culture des Kulturreferates der Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben.
A condensed history of a southeast German group of peoples; with a volkskundlichen appendix Valentin, Anton Munich 1959. 118 S. Veröffentlichung/Publication of the Kulturreferates of the homeland association of the Banater Swabia; Arbeitsh. 1
 
     

 
Die Glocken der Heimat
Author: Adam Müller Guttenbrunn

Verlag (publisher) L Staackmann Leipzig 1911

 
     

 
Die Nicht Sterben Wollten
Author: Anton Scherer

Donauschwaben Literatur von Lenau bis zur Gegenwart Ein Buch vom Leben der Deutschen und ihrer Nachbarn in Südosteuropa. 1959, Pannonia-Verlag Freilassing (publisher)
A book about the life of the Germans and their neighbors in south-eastern Europe.)
 
     
 
Donauschwabische Geschichte
Authors: Ingomar Senz, Rudolf Fath, Friedrich Fathas

Language: German, Publication Date: 1997. ISBN: 3800413477

 

     

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Donauschwäbische Lebensformen an der Mittleren Donau
Author: Hans Gehl

Marburg, Elwert Verlag 2003 ISBN 3-7708-1228-X; 2003 - 330 pages, 19 Abb., 7 maps.
     

 
Donauschwäbisches Ortsnamenbuch für die ehemals und teilweise noch deutsch besiedelten Orte in Ungarn, Jugoslawien (ohne Slowenien) sowie West-Rumänien (Banat und Sathmar).
Authors: Isabella Regenyi and Anton Scherer

Title Translation: Danube-Swabian Place Name Book for those formerly and partly still German places in Hungary, Yugoslavia (without Slovenia) and West Romania (Banat and Sathmar).  Language: German.  Publication Date: 1980.  188 S.+12 Karten. (15:21) Kstf. = SchrR zur donauschwäbischen Herkunftsforschung Euro 22,00
     
   
     
 
Es War Einmal - The Yesteryears of the Danube Swabians
Author: Sister Mary Agnes Theiszmann Pitzer

A historical novel, in English. 269 pp. including 24 black/white photos by renowned Danube Swabian painter Stefan Jäger. I-SBN 0-9699880-0-1 National Library.  © Heimat Publishers, contact Frank Schmidt - note: as of 3/16/06 Frank has six copies of this book left and could likely get some more from Sister Mary Agnes.
     
 
Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe
Author: Steven Bela Vardy and T. Hunt Tooley

© Eastern European Monographs Series. Boulder: Columbia University Press, 2003. xiv + 861 pp. Maps, notes, tables, documents, some individual bibliographies. ISBN 0-8803-3995-0.  This volume is the result of the conference on Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Europe held at Duquesne University in November 2000. The conference brought together sixty scholars, primarily historians but also specialists in other fields, as well as survivors of ethnic cleansing from seven different countries who presented forty-eight papers.
     
 
Exploring French, German & Spanish
Author: Jacob Steigerwald

 

 

     
 
Eva's War
Author: Eva Krutein, Adela Amador, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

A True Story of Survival.
     


 
 
 
Genocide of the Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia 1944-1948
Foreword by Alfred de Zayas

Published by Danube Swabian Association of the U.S.A., Inc., Santa Ana, California USA. Licensed by the Donauschwabische Kulturstiftung - Munchen, Germany. Copyright 2001 by Danube Swabian Association of the U.S.A. Printed by Award Printing Corp., Chicago, IL. ISBN: 0-9710341-0-9
     
 
German Chicago The Danube Swabians and the American Aid Society
Author: Raymond Lohne

& The Great Chicago Refugee Rescue  ISBN: 0738500208
     
 
German-Hungarian Relations & and The Swabian Problem, From Karolyi to Gombos, 1919-1936
Author: Thomas Spira

© 1977 [East European monographs] ISBN: 0914710184
     
   
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Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet  
Author: Herta Müller

1997 Publisher: Rohwolt, ISBN 3 498 043897 
     

 
Homestead  
Author: Rosina Lippi

A novel about life in an imaginary small Austrian village just across the border from Germany, showing everyday life during WW1 and WW2. Although it deals with an imaginary village and imaginary people, their lives are based on historic reality of life in that area at that time.
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award. A good read and very informative.
     

 
Hrastovac - Eichendorf Families 1865-1900  
Author: Rosina T. Schmidt

 
   
 
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Irene's Song  
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Charleville, St Hubert, and Soltur, the three sister villages making up Banatsko Veliko Selo.

 

     

 
In Search of a Warm Room  
Author: Anne Jung Holden

An unforgettable story of her family's life as ethnic Germans in pre-WWII Yugoslavia. This story of exile and suffering in Yugoslavia toward the end of World War II attests to the fact that Jews were not the only ethnic gr