This book is dedicated to all the women & girls, who rest in peace, somewhere in the Russian soil, buried without a coffin & without a cross. No gravestone, & no monument carry their names. They are forgotten & only live in the memory of their surviving, suffering companions.  They were not registered, like the soldiers, & carried no identity card, they were nameless work-animals.

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

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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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

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.

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, 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

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.

© 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.

A True Story of Survival.

& The Great Chicago Refugee Rescue  ISBN: 0738500208

1997 Publisher: Rohwolt, ISBN 3 498 043897 

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 group targeted during the war. Publisher: Warren Publishing (NC) 2002. ISBN: 1886057834

An account of his experiences and observations at the hands of Tito's Partisans in Yugoslavia from 1944-48, regarding the murder of 200,000 Banat Swabian civilians in Serbia.  Translated by Frank Schmidt.  ISBN: 0969350406 OCLC: 20995599. Heimat Publishers, contact Frank Schmidt

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Mass kidnapping by Communists of 20,000 children of ethnic Germans from Banat.  Published by Eckartschriften, Vienna, Austria, was translated from German by John Adam Koehler and Eve Eckert Koehler under the title 'Our Lost Children: Janissaries?' (87 p.). The English edition was published in 1980 by the Danube Swabian Association of the U.S.A., Inc.  Copies may be available from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (where
Ms. Koehler worked), through antiquarian sources, or via Inter Library Loan.

354 pages *1st edition, ISBN 1-59092-321-9. Read more about this book and Donna.

The expulsion of the Germans from the East following World War II,  3rd Edition.

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About Herta Müller: www.uwp.co.uk/book_desc/1484.html