The Germans From Russia: Children Of The Steppe Children Of The Prairie

[@whiskeytangofoxtrot9942]

In our village in south Kazakhstan we had a large Volga Germans that been moved from Russia, they was the best non local foreigner neighbors better that Russians! They’ve learned Kazakh language faster and better that anyone else and even now they and only them who can speak our language very clearly even in some older style or manner! I highly respect this Germans even most of them now shifted to Germany but even from Germany they still sending us treating in our language! They left only worm memories about them here those whom are returned to Germany and gone for other states

[@justicartiberius8782]

That's true. Germans are one of the best migrants you can have. They adapt extremely fast to the culture and society of their new country. They are very humble migrants that wish to adapt as soon as possible and hate it to make trouble for the nation that has welcomed them. And their loyalty belongs to the country they adapted to. No matter if it's american countries, european countries or asian countries. They always try to get along with the natives and behave humble as guests should behave. They follow the rules and laws of a country without any rebellious behavior. But as a german myself i also have to admit that german tourists, especially if they are drunk (Mallorca for example) can be absolutely annoying and kind of possessive. Never experienced it myself though.

[@yespls6260]

My close German family friend (she was my au pair when I was a child) was born in the Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan). Her family can trace their lineage back to the time of Catherine the Great when they settled the steppe, and in the 1990s they moved to Germany because of the country's immigration program for such people. I've luckily been to Germany a few times, but I really want to visit Kazakhstan.

[@joshuaammon6335]

Hope you are doing well during this time friend.

[@valnwk]

Can you please tell us the name of the village. I love reading about their history and unfortunately I find little of it.

[@jimmycricket7385]

Why did they leave Kazakhstan?

[@marigoldmeadowsfarm7495]

My sweet gramma was German Russian. I’m thankful they made it to US in 1900. Thank you for a wonderful program.

[@scottdavis4497]

I’m from small community in eastern Washington and many of the people including myself are descendants of Volga Germans. Mainly Yogodnaya Polyana. I am just learning of this part of my heritage, but remember so much of what I grew in. Many of my childhood friends are also descendants of this village, And the culture that I was raised in to me was just normal, but as I get older I realize how unique it was. The food, lifestyle, dress everything. I am deeply moved and amazed by all of this. The summer kitchen! Still used back home till this day. Thank you for this video

[@nadinwong9520]

ich bin auch Wolga deutsche lebe aber in Deutschland jetzt :)

[@bigdaddysmooth3]

I live near Puyallup Washington and my great-great grandparents were emigrants that moved from the Volga German Colony of Walter to the village of Odesa Washington state

[@CheburashkaGenovna]

Growing up in a mennonite family, knowing my grand grandmother born 1894 in Russia, listening to all stories about my ancestors I must say it's a very accurate documentary, especially the emotions and the "worldview" of the Russlandsdeutsche.

[@mishasuki]

I’m 65% German Russian from the Strassburg settlement in Odessa on my father’s side. This is so interesting to me! My grandparents were thrifty, resilient and always made kuchen for holidays!

[@sandranatali1260]

I remember as a little girl, visiting on Sundays was a big deal. Everyone had such a great time. Spending time and dinner at grandma's, with Aunts, Uncles and cousins. Wonder memories.

[@nolaoltman5759]

Sandra Natali ll

[@buffy8156]

Faspa?

[@TheProseRose]

Thank you so much for making this video. I am 75 percent Volga German and my ancestors settled in Alberta and Sakatchewan Canada. This explains so much about my older relatives.

[@charlottecampbell4327]

My sister married a descendent of Germans from Russia who settled in a prairie area of Saskatchewan.

[@thricecrazy33]

also volga german, likely we are related. Volga german got alot of farmland in sask and southern alberta.

[@ldsmusician]

1/8th Volga German born in Alberta

[@jameshenderson3238]

My maternal grandparents are German Russians from the Volga area and immigrated to the United States in the early 1900's. A most enjoyable and informative video.

[@ChocolateBoxCottage]

Very interesting. My Mom's side of the family is German from Russia and it is so interesting to learn more about the cultural history. Thank you.

[@Bandit1146]

Thank you for this educational, very informative and touching documentary! Germans from along the Volga in Russia also settled in Lipscomb county in the panhandle of Texas. The town still holds a Deutsche Festival each July. The town (of just over 300 people) comes together to make beirox, butterballs and noodles, and kuchen and does an amazing job hosting this annual celebration that combines great food, a small parade, a melodrama, baseball tournament etc. I love learning more about the heritage of the town I grew up in, and the depth of these hard-working people!

[@woodbutcherjohn]

I haven't had bierox, or as my grandmother would call them kraut bierocks, since my grandmother died in 1985. Looks like I have to take a trip to Lipscomb County !

[@ottomeyer6928]

bless you all

[@JanaeLynn]

My grandparents didn't miss the old country. They made a good life in Portland OR. They carved holes in ice for water in Russia while praying wolves didn't attack! My grandma worked very hard in Russia, America was easy street compared.

[@kaseys4145]

My great grandparents on both my mother and fathers side are Volga Germans. So proud of my heritage. Thank you for his documentary. Very miss understood culture.

[@rubengonzales4364]

Are German born in America

[@LoveAsianCulture]

Ruben Gonzales your point?

[@ronsmith251]

Ruben Gonzalez, they will own it if they want it

@@LoveAsianCulture Why so defensive?

[@hazelshavenofhope2156]

I would say more Unknown than misunderstood.

[@marypeters8418]

July 26, 2020. I just watched this with my Mennonite mom & dad, my heart sings and is so sensitive to my own history. I happen to be a Canadian born one, my parents born in Chihuahua Mexico, grandparents from the Saskatchewan prairies, great grandparents from the old colony mennonites from Russia. The fortunate ones that left when first given the opportunity to come to Canada. In my trucking career of over 40 years, not a day goes by anywhere in this hemisphere, from Whitehorse in the Yukon south thru any part of Canada, anywhere USA, Mexico and south in my travels to Belize. Each day I have the privilege to share in low German a greeting. I believe if every Mennonite in the world would or could vote according to their convictions and conscience we truly could have a longer lasting kindness in this world. I am so grateful to belong. Isaac Peters

[@bobam8927]

Wird da noch Plattdeutsch gesprochen?

[@maplebones]

How we're you born in Canada ? Did your parents return after moving to Mexico ?

[@buffy8156]

@@bobam8927

[@buffy8156]

⁠@@bobam8927so fun to see plautdautch! That’s what I was taught!

[@hunbun4837]

I've been working on my family ancestry and this finally explains so much. This saddens me but also brings me peace. Thank you to my family who came here to America. And to my family who chose to stay in Ukraine/Russia, I wish you came with.

[@VagoniusThicket]

Hun Bun A lot of good germans sacrificed everything while farming in foreign lands . In some places they were murdered in masses after both world wars . 😢

[@christinamorales6887]

I have family there too.

[@elisabethschmidt8065]

I'm a born German Mennonite, my father says Russians were horrible to Mennonites and then Hitler sent his soldiers to rescue the German Mennonites. This was after Katherine the Great. Weddings were also treated as funerals, still to this day they dress in black for wedding's. Lots of German Mennonite are still stuck in there ancestors experience, to my experience that has kept the Mennonites down on the ground, focused on suffering there past. There is respect for ancestors, but also seeing your father so focused on respecting the past and not the present family has also created a lot of suffering.

[@Alpheccca]

Lisa Schmitt I’m not positive but most Mennonite Germans that I know had been in Ukraine and were starved along with the Ukrainians by the communist Soviet Union. The Holodomor.

[@ageofadversity]

There are books by Ingrid Rimland about the Germans in Russia and their rescue by the Germans Hitler sent.

[@ME-ru5wo]

So Russians were terrible for two centuries? ‘after ‘Catherine the Great’ your daddy lying lmao

[@LewisC-t1f]

The Germans who sided with hi-tler were ended or deported to Siberia! Which is normal, for treason!

[@LewisC-t1f]

@@Alpheccca that wasn’t the Russians who did it. The holodomor was carried out by the je-wish elite who controlled the ussr, up to 80% of politburo were je-wish! Oh and you Northern Europeans who came to OUR land in North American, you genocided 90% of OUR Native American people here, and stole all our land, even now, you still live here!!

[@sandranatali1260]

Both my mother's and my father's families are Volga Germans. They settled in Wisconsin.

[@LoveAsianCulture]

Sandra Natali me too

[@sharonstuhlmiller1757]

Oh honey your miracle with all the hardships live long & well!

[@bigredmed]

A museum to the Volga Deutsch is in Lincoln, NE.

[@sandranatali1260]

One of the sad things I have been faced with is the younger generation of today, are not interested in knowing what our grandparents and other family have gone through when going to America or those left in Russia. I continue to look for relatives. Save information of the Germans from Russia, that someday they'll read, to know their history and learn of their struggles, so that they have the ability to live freedom. That our grandparents left Russia not only for themselves but for future generations.

[@janepatterson6779]

@@sandranatali1260 Sandra..I AGREE 100%. Nor do they care about our soldiers who died in past wars for our freedom and by the command of our government.

[@me-xx2gl]

My mother's family were germans from russia. I read Volga Germans by Sigrid Weidenweber and got a bigger picture of just what went on. Sent the book to my kids. Originally settled in Winnipeg due to US quotas at the time, then several years later, they moved to Lincoln. My mother's rules were never to talk of the "old country". Years later grandma shared some stories and later one cousin had a treasure trove of letters. Interesting that in the mid 1970s my grandmother, quite by chance, was able to make contact with a younger sister who ended up in Siberia. Such richness there of a tough people.

[@cascadian19]

My paternal grandfather's family came to Manitoba the same way. I'm working to trace their history back in Volhynia. So cool to learn about the family's past this way. I even recently met a German with the same last name randomly whose family came from the same area, we could be relatives meeting in Canada by chance!

[@stacysturdevant3666]

My Grandmother was from Lincoln also!

[@dalereinheller1]

Im from German Russian decent. My great grandparents immigrated from Odessa Russia to North Dakota, then to Canada. I remember my grandparents and mom and dad speaking german when I was a child, but I never learned the language. Maybe because they thought that the low German language was not worth passing along. This was a treat, thanks for posting this.

[@mishasuki]

My great grandparents also emigrated from Odessa to North Dakota! But we stopped there and didn’t go to Canada. Mine also spoke German but only around the dinner table with a heavy cloud of cigarette smoke hanging above them! you don’t happen to have any marquarts’ in your family do you? 😊

[@amelialaplantehorne9182]

We also have German from Russia in our family that came to North Dakota from Odessa. (Schaff / Zarr).

[@dianeday7995]

I enjoyed this video very much. My paternal grandparents were Germans from Russia who became farmers in North Dakota. Thank you for making this available on youtube.

[@rubengonzales4364]

Was immigrants

[@LoveAsianCulture]

Ruben Gonzales LOL yeah, everyone in America are immigrants. Apart from the native Americans who are now mostly dead. Not nice what's happened

[@michellemigler890]

mine too!

[@tedhamachi3454]

Ruben Gonzales vh#you and 78

[@777ttaylor]

Mine too!!!

[@alexreichert1245]

I'd like to add: the film was shot almost 20 years ago, the German settlements in Russia shown there are looking a bit better, there is a lot of renovation. I guess many of the old people in the film have passed away now. I used to know quite a few old Russian Germans and found them to be very nice, kind and caring people. God bless them all.

[@kyriljordanov2086]

Alex Reichert I was wondering how many were even still left in Russia. I know that so many Germans in Romania left for Germany in the 90s so that only elderly Germans are often left now. Not to mention the slaughter and eviction of Germans from CZ, PL, etc after WWII. I've known many Russians throughout my life who had at least a bit of Volga German ancestry, even though they were all Russians, so I wonder if the remaining Germans have been simply absorbed.

[@LoveAsianCulture]

Kyril Jordanov yes I'm one of those people

[@impalamama7302]

Had to be before Sept 11 2001....Twin Towers are in Statue of Liberty shots.

[@troyelhard2684]

I wouldnt be here in North Dakota if wasn't for the Germans from Russia

[@johnroddy8756]

I Would not be alive if not for the wall street crash,grand mother was going to the states to join a convent.Money was lost in the crash by her Brother.The rest is history

[@screaminpman]

I grew up in North Dakota. My mother descended from Germans from Russia from Mandan. My father is Norwegian from Manvel (near Grand Forks). I moved to California when I was 23, but ND will always have a special place in my heart.

[@kathybishop6623]

I remember n Dakota and Minnesota very well growing up there this sounds so familiar my father was Norwegian my mother was German and English......

[@vickistopherd8134]

I am 72 and all my grandparents were Volga River Germans born in Franck Russia.They settled on farms in eastern Washington.

[@peytonwm]

On my paternal grandmother’s side is where the Hutterite and Mennonite German ancestry comes from in my family. Each of her grandparents except for her maternal grandmother have roots in Russia, and in fact her paternal grandfather, Paul T Hofer, was born in Neu Hutterthal, Ukraine (now called Derezivka, near Orikhiv) and immigrated to the US a few months later with his family. The Hutterites lived in Czechia, Slovakia, and Romania before making it to their Ukrainian settlements. The Hutterites are actually composed of ancestry from three different Germanic regions: some from Carinthian and Tyrolese Austria (surnames Hofer, Glanzer, Wurtz, Kleinsasser, Waldner), some from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany (Tschetter, Walter, Pullman, Wipf, Mendel/Mandel, Wollman, Stahl) and some previously Mennonite from the Vistula Delta regions of Prussian Poland (Gross, Decker, Entz, Fast). If there’s anyone with this specific background out there, I’d love to see what connections we can make!

[@dragonflyjilly]

My great grandparents were German Russians from a town near the Black Sea. They went to Bismarck..

[@hollygrosshans3529]

I am from Ashley and Bismarck, ND. My grandparents were born in Freidenstahl, Bessarabia (Ukraine). I grew up with all these traditions and the language. My favorite by far was the strudels, homemade sausage and kuchen. Also the “Hochzeit” weddings with polka music. What a happy childhood I had visiting my grandparent’s farm. They still speak German in many communities.

[@covenawhite4855]

Germans from Russia sounds as beautiful as a story book. So happy with their simple life and friendly communities. But they do more hard work and live with more difficult hardship than any Disney book would add. Glad for this video 😀☺😊😃😄😆☺💐

[@constancemiller3753]

I'm glad this doc. is out there. I spoke to a family friend who tried to explain to her husband how her family weren't Russians or Ukrainian but Germans who spoke German.

[@muncibedduSicilia]

I am Sicilian, adopted in the Netherlands, from a Bessarabian born mother. My son asked me about our roots and if we are Russian or German. I love your movie(s)! These are great to teach him about the history of... and the feeling that goes with it. Thank you!

[@martinpenner920]

ShirleyCurly A p

[@NichtNameee]

The world is strange

[@rubengonzales4364]

You are Italian therefore Latin

[@bobam8927]

@@rubengonzales4364 Die Kultur und Sprache ist die Herkunft nicht das Blut oder Land.

[@dreamspinner3mn]

My father grew up in Strasburg, North Dakota, the son of Germans from the Black Sea area of Russia. I was so happy to come across this documentary so I could learn more about my ancestors. My grandfather Glass brought his family to Minneapolis, Minnesota in the 1950s, where many of his descendants still live today, including me.

[@OllieSang]

Excellent! This is my heritage, such scope in this story, I never knew. Thanks for the telling.

[@joelynlykke6113]

Vielen Dank für diesen tollen Bericht. Hat mich zum Weinen gebracht. Obwohl niemand aus meiner Familie von dort ist. Heimat.... so much more than “homeland”. There is the word Heimatland in German, ( homeland). Heimat is so much more...

[@gracevandersloot530]

My grandma is German but her and her family were born in the Ukraine, and they immigrated to Canada (Alberta) to flee the war. I have wondered why she doesn't say she's Russian-German but I think she just identifies way more with her German heritage (German songs, stories, food, etc). So cool learning about this stuff as a 2nd generation Canadian!! Viele danke für der Video!!

[@casper6198]

Why does your name sounds like Netherlands

[@bobam8927]

Wir haben uns immer als Deutsch bezeichnet.

[@LovinLnCottage]

My maternal grandparents also were Germans from Lviv area of Ukraine and emigrated to Saskatchewan in 1912 as indentured servants to a grain farmer for 5 years. My family always identified as German though my grandfather had been drafted into the Tsarist Russian Cavalry. My grandparents finally settled in the Twin Cities, Michigan and were naturalized citizens of the USA.

[@dinnerwithfranklin]

Thank you for this very much. German family from Russia through Dakota to Alberta is my history

[@maplebones]

Is Alberta better than Dakota for immigrants ?

[@dancingcolorsVdeRegil]

The strudel makers! The older one sounds exactly like my great grandmother, whose voice I haven't heard since 1968! I love this thank you! All of the info is very good to get..

[@reelinanrockin]

My grandmother too. Exactly.

[@acmund]

My grandma wasn't in this video...but it sure was nice to see her again!

[@friedabittkau3761]

The strudel makers !!! She was talking “ Shupfnoodel” on Saturday. Does anybody have the recepie for that ? My Mother used to make them, will truly appreciate it.🙏🏻

[@tekara]

@@friedabittkau3761 Here's the best one I've found. germanfoods.org/recipes/schupfnudeln/

[@igorjee]

@@friedabittkau3761 In Hungarian sufnudli (shoof-noodlee) is the dirt between your toes when you roll them out with your fingers.

[@rosemarytoews5439]

This really hit home at times. Both my parents were of German Russian Catholic heritage. We had the huge family Sunday visits, strudel, kuchen, german songs, nursery rhymes. My mother (Bachmeier/Ruscheinski/Mueller/Miller, Dressler/Faehnrich)came age 4 from Caramurat, Romania in 1929 through Hamburg To Halifax to Manitoba then in 1939 to Richmond, BC. My dad's parents came from Odessa, UKR, Russia around 1900 through Ellis Island to Mandan, N. Dakota. They had it worse.. stories of soddy homes, babies and children dying of scarlet fever, starvation, bitter cold, extreme religiosity, general harshness of life was very sad. My GF worked for the railroad and met my GM in a saloon where she and her sisters worked. They had 11 children..the first 2 died at 5 and 3, then another brother at 9, full term twins were miscarried when the horses spooked and upturned the buggy, throwing my GM. They followed the railway work in 1918 Saskatchewan with CPRail. My GF was a herbalist as well with old country remedies and wrote a book..I cannot imagine how devastating losing small children to sickness could be...as the saying went..try not to love too much.. I have always appreciated growing up here in the Vancouver area and how easy we have had it compared to our ancestors. Most of my relatives according to Ancestry.ca DNA are in Alsace-Lorraine, and North Dakota. (Stoltz/Immel/Helbing/Leingang/Kaiser)

[@H8MACHINE1]

Auch wenn die deutsche Kultur hier in dieser BRD von der Regierung ausgerottet wird bin ich froh, dass es auf dem Rest der Welt noch Deutsche gibt und diese wundervolle und wertvolle Kultur nicht sterben lassen. Es macht mich glücklich, dass es euch dort gibt

[@perryelyod4870]

The surname Leibel may be familiar to you?

[@rosemarytoews5439]

@@perryelyod4870 sorry..no

[@tpatterson6624]

I crave Kuchen! Miss my grandparents. I recognize the name Bachmeier.

[@t.4999]

These were the tough breed. Heart touching and inspiring!

[@CTX700girl]

I love these documentaries on other people’s heritage and cultures. All together make up America.

[@janesmith9024]

It was lovely to see them cooking together. I have no connections other than speaking German - studied it to age 18 in the UK but even so it is interesting to see why people got to where they did and to see a slightly older film that this is - made about 20 years ago.

[@HelenEk7]

What a gem of a documentary! I particularly enjoyed the description of how they build their houses. So interesting.

[@vickistopherd8134]

All of my grandparents were born as Volga River Germans. I am 72 and was raised in eastern WA.

[@tessapowell8140]

My maternal great grandparents were from Walter and Frank and settled in Washington State. Their family names were Ils and Walter. The strudel lady so reminds me of my great grandmother. Thanks for putting this on KZbin!

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

One strand of my family is also from Walter, to Lincoln, Nebraska and then to Park City, Montana.

[@joellyons5060]

My great great grandparents are also from the villages of Walter and Frank. They settled in Lincoln, NE. Their names were Jacob and Anna Reigert.

[@emmamiller7022]

Die 2 Ledis was Strudel, Schupfnudel ,Knepfle gekocht haben. Sprechen den GIEICHE DIALEKT WIE WIR. AUS BESSARABIEN ODESSA. Schwabisch. 💐

[@larifari7473]

My grandfather was born in Walter. His family moved to the North Causasus when he was a child and the family was deported to Kasachstan during the WWII. In the 1992 tue wholefamily immigrated to Germany. The name is Kechter.

[@tonycust9247]

Discovered this interesting ethnic movement recently when looking at Ukrainian graves in the nearby cemetery. There was one that stated that the lady came from Rosalienfeld Ua. I realized that was a German name and stumbled onto this story! I think it is now 'Feodorivka' in Kherson Oblast. Also we have some German folk from Bessarabia, but the old immigrants to Australia are passing away!

[@paiger5513]

I have always felt grateful my paternal grandmothers family left the Volga area when they did to settle in Montana, the ones that stayed behind didn’t fair well.

[@hossenfeffer8383]

So glad I found this film! My Ancestry is Volga German and Bukowina German. Learning about all this so late in life.

[@johndewey6358]

What an amazing story and the many journeys, suffering and joys that made it all possible.

[@alexreichert1245]

The film mentions only the German immigration wave from Germanic states under Katherine the Great - which indeed was on the large scale. However, it doesn't mention that the German immigration to Russia was ever present since the Middle Ages. In Moscow there was always the German Region (Nemetskaya Sloboda) the place where Germans used to settle - which was and still is one of the central parts of the city. Petersburg always had a big Russian German population, they preferred to settle on Vasilyevsky Ostrov. The Russian Germans gone under the same privations and sufferings after the Bolshevik catastrophe as the rest of the Russian people. During the Second WW Stalin, afraid of the 5th column cruelly banished the the mayor bulk of St.Petersburg's Germans as well as agricultural German Volga population to Siberia and Kazakhstan, so they stay as far possible from the front line.

[@whiskeytangofoxtrot9942]

I’m still know some good German farmers here in Kazakhstan!

[@kozjevime1]

NAZI FIRST OF ALL WANTED TO CONVERT RUSSIANS IN SLAVE LABOR BUT WERE NOT NEARLY AS CRUEL AS DOMESTIC KHAZARIAN BOLSHEVIKS.

[@ZekeMan62]

@@kozjevime1 All we ever hear about is the Nazis, but the bolsheviks committed far greater attrocities on a much larger scale. Why does Steven Spielberg not make a film about this? 🤣 Instead endless movies and documentaries about the Nazis, over and over and over again.

[@Alpheccca]

Thanks for that information about immigration from Middle Ages. My paternal grandparents left the Saratov region and came to Manitoba, Canada about 1915. I had done searches for the Reichert name several years ago in the Moscow region, and found a few living there. I assumed they were probably from the Volga settlements but maybe they had arrived much earlier. ☦️

[@ottomeyer6928]

@@ZekeMan62 those germans werent jews thats why!

[@williamb-b7440]

i found out my mothers side of the family is Volga German from choritza, this was highly informative and the comments are extremely helpful because my moms great grandparents were settled in Saskatchewan.

[@MichaelSchwark-yn3jb]

What a wonderful documentary!

[@cindyjune6490]

My family the Koop's are part of that Journey, we ended up Kansas, then finally Corn Oklahoma. Our family joined with John Denver's family in Oklahoma in marriage. But the Koop's and Deutschendorf's were together in Russia. So that is how John Denver's family got here. His father did join the military so we can imagine that must have cause a stir. I remember John's father Hank at family reunion's telling us every year John is coming. Finally in the 80s he started showing up. Good times. We miss him.

[@lisahargreaves3938]

This is wondful history, i am german decent. I am from new Zealand. U dont know my german ancestry.

[@cindyjune6490]

@@lisahargreaves3938 I have been able to trace mine only because of John. I know nothing about my fathers family.

[@jduff59]

Very important subject, and what I'd give to taste Oma's apple strudel (again) - there was a lot of love in that stuff.

[@michaelfiedler1419]

I love their lower German which many of these folks speak even today.

[@jackietucker8942]

I'm SO enjoying these videos. What would be the difference between this group and the Germanic/Holland Dutch Mennonites that came out of Russia. My maternal side came out of the Ukraine. The food, the language, stir up memories of my very early years. I love genealogy, which the family church kept for many generations, ending in the 60's.

[@leannmkg6797]

While researching my family history, I found that the Germans immigrated to other countries for centuries. There are Germans that immigrated up through norther Europe, into what is now known as the Ukraine, Poland, and Denmark. I have one set of Great Great Grandparents that immigrated to Poland, in order to immigrate to the US. Some of the Nationalities changed because of the wars. I have one Great Grandfather, who was Danish, but census has him from Germany. This was because the area he was from changed from Prussia, to Denmark, to Germany, in a matter of 20 years.

[@user-dl1xz3mj3i]

@@leannmkg6797 Poland and Ukraine are located in east and not north..and yes Denmark is north.

[@luckyneko1]

My family are Volga Germans from Russia. They emigrated to the USA and farmed in Nebraska. Very proud ancestor.

[@Kanadaauswandern]

I´m one of them and live in canada for 11 years, but I´d like to move on to Paraguay one day, good Video thanks

[@igorbrille8222]

@Monte Christo he is probably a Mennonite and these Germans have big communities in Paraguay.I have been there in the jungle at Colonia Vollendam.They builded villages with names from their Wolga German heritage.Since then I love to meet Germans from the east.

[@tcslife3336]

My paternal grandmother's family immigrated from Worms, Russia. My paternal grandfather's family from the Crimea.

[@twinturbo8304]

We are germans Not nazis. Very proud

[@agathamartens1059]

My great-great-great-grandfather was born 11th of May 1837 in Chortitza South Russia and my grandfather's Peter Martins born 25 dec 1910 moved from Canada to Mexico

[@joelawrence56]

I also have a great grandmother born Martens...you have a family history?

[@nightcritterz]

My great-grandparents ended up in North Dakota in the early 20's and ended up in Montana... last name Glockhamer. My grandma used to make bierocks, sometimes I still make them..

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

My great-grandparents came to ND from Kassel Russia. My grandparents then came to Cali in the 50s. I’m always looking up stuff about being a “German from Russia.”

[@bobam8927]

was interessiert dich?

[@mariaklassen6288]

Thanks for your videos, I'm Mennonite my great grandparents lived in Russia and moved to Manitoba Canada from there they moved to Mexico, cuauhtemoc city Mexico 100 years ago. Now the Mennonite s are spread all over the world

[@krisstewart4787]

My grandfather would have loved this. Both his parents were Volga German. His mother who I had the blessing of growing up with in his home, immigrated from Frank, Russia in 1904. (Lebsack) His paternal grandparents immigrated in 1870’s (Koch anglicized to Cook later). My great grandparents farmed in southern Nebraska (Culbertson). They left in 1940 with all their grown sons for California. I was fortunate to grow up with all of them. I still cook all of my great grandmother’s foods and enjoy talking with other Volga German families about our shared history and culture. I learned tocook, stitch and crochet from her warm hands and still fondly remember those lessons

[@jurgenkogel9823]

Danke Praire Public!

[@gandyands]

I thank you for this video. I am 50% Volga Deutsch. It was very nice to see this resource.

[@kevinh.w.crabbe8748]

This is good to know for my mom family was mennonite from Winkler Manitoba and last name was Giesbrecht back then so it may be part of our History that way

[@colliecoform4854]

It was so refreshing to watch this today, showcasing the ideals of the immigrants to this country. The young today should learn what their ancestors went through, their beliefs and values instead of their protesting and rioting, working to destroy what makes this country great. My great grandmother was German. I enjoyed learning more of the immigrant experience, most of my information has been on the Irish side of the family. I am going to do more research on the German side.

[@colliecoform4854]

@A Tangerine I'm 66 and I seriously doubt that history, when written honestly, will revere these protesters for anything.positive.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

Just found this now. My maternal grandfather was German and grew up on a farm in the Ukraine in the U.S.S.R.. When he was young Stalin confiscated his parents' farm and they had to move to an industrial city to work in a factory. His father was sent to Siberia and died there. My grandfather emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada after WWII and became a farmer. His brother stayed in Russia. A lot here that reminded me of him. Even the clothes and kitchen drawers and cupboards look exactly like my grandparents' old farm house😊💓

[@bobam8927]

Ja wir haben auch so einen Küchenschrank (Kicheschonk)gehabt.

[@andres6868]

Some Volga Germans went to Argentina as well, where in the late 19th century there was a huge increase in lands taken from Indians and European farmers were badly needed. There are still villages in Santa Fe province and Entre Rios province where the majority today descends from those Volga Germans (though almost of them speak Spanish by now)

[@spitfiredisco3500]

this makes my heart smile ☺

[@davidvanderkin9324]

My great great grandfather, Anton wasinger was one of the five scouts who went to America to scout the land and then go back and report what they observed, eventually settling in Ellis, co, kansas.

[@frankz4900]

What a wonderful video

[@sarahsuero]

This is meaningful, thank you! I’ve German roots.

[@suzannekathro4958]

My aunt was a Volga German. There was a large community in Chicago.

[@cascadian19]

My great grandfather went to Chicago after landing in Halifax from Volhynia. Ended up settling in Manitoba after a short stay in Chicago

[@natlenan6743]

my ancestors are from Russia but they are German! I didn't know this was a thing. Thanks.

[@steveh9789]

Many volga germans in kansas.

[@reelinanrockin]

I can’t watch this without feeling pride.

[@me-xx2gl]

Grebels, rhunzas, and what my grandma called dina kugle, which may be kuchen, a sweet bread with strudel or fruit on top. My grandma traveled from russia to England and then to winnepeg during early pregnancy. I can't imagine.

[@gregortheclone8913]

Wow, I am astonished! My greatmother from father side was half german from Basarabia....

[@violetgruner707]

My brother-in-law family were Volga German. His mom never learned Russian nor English when they immigrated to America. Their culture was German, German Lutheran Church, etc. The children in America spoke German at home. All 5 sons served in our military.

[@ronsmith251]

My grand parents were from Russia n Germany, they spoke German. The oldest brother of my mom was held back 1 grade because he didn't speak English, no more German was spoke, in the house. English only. This is America. My uncle, drove a tank in world war 2, fighting Germans.

[@luv1another]

Same thing happened to my dad. He was held back in kindergarten because he only spoke German.

[@buffy8156]

@@luv1anotherMy father served as translated for the teacher outside McPherson, KS at Turkey Creek grade school. He spoke low German and English but was told “you are American speak American” except at home. I never learned full sentences, just words - zweibach, pfefferneusse, verinika, pluma mos. Still cook them all!!

[@rookhoatzin]

Germans searching for religious freedom moved to Russia. And it worked for a long time but my ancestors, Mennonites, refused to integrate, they spoke German and they kept themselves apart. They moved to the three hills area of Alberta eventually where they live even today, speaking German and keeping themselves apart. My grandfather became a Baptist preacher breaking from the Mennonite ways and moved to Oregon. He was very proud of his heritage though, speaking occasionally of how members of the Janz family rescued hundreds of German Russians as things got bad there. I wish i knew more of that history, this documentary speaks to me of my own history. For fun you might look up the Janz Brothers on youtube, they sung religious songs in German back in the 50's, 60's.

[@lieselotte6979]

I was born in Kasachstan (Taldy - Kurgan) and we are German. 1978 we go back to Germany. My Family lives there 200 years.

[@Gabrieleengstrom]

There is so much to learn, I did not know this one

[@wadde_fakman]

My grandpa's mother was a Volga German and his father was an American. They married here in Alberta, Canada. Always lovely to hear about the past and our peoples. If anyone in these comments lives in this region of Russia and is familiar with the Volga Germans, her family was Mennonite. Is that one of the more common denominations among Volga Germans or is it more uncommon? Does it point me towards a specific area/group of villages where the Mennonites primarily were/are or are all denominations spread out pretty evenly among Volga Germans?

[@larifari7473]

As far as know from that what my grandfather told, there were not so many mennonites. They lived apart and used a little bit different Dialekt. But I don't know where to locate them exactly.

[@rebeccamcardle8071]

So much of my family history makes sense now. I have a family bible in German from 1870. I was told of the program from Russia. I have a picture of me as a newborn 5th generation in front of a sod house 1960 north Alberta ..family recipes are very east European. Hudderite and Mennonite Mormon sentiments.

[@homerjay2561]

Thanks so much!!

[@nelliefarr1540]

my grandfather and grandmother were germans fro. germany and formed the german community in phillippi south africa and they were a very hardworking community who farmed with pigs cows poultry and planted the land with vegetables built the german church zions kirche and the school.

[@lilafeldman8630]

This is an awesome documentary! Thank you.

[@savnster]

I am Russian and live in the USA. I spent my entire childhood in the village of Nikolaevka Krasnoturansk region Krasnoyarsk krai, Siberia, Russia. 99.9% of Nikolayevka's population were Volga Germans who settled there in 1908. I spoke "plat taich" almost like a German kid. I will be happy to communicate with someone to share the remnats of German dialect that I still remember.

[@lukecarrol1745]

Thank you for uploading.

[@herbertmueller1644]

Luke Carrol ki

[@imagembaby]

I have ancestors on both sides. This is such a great video, I learned a lot from it. Thank you!

[@MrKgd1950]

Wonderful video. My paternal ancestors (Diehl and Keil) were from the Volga German villages of Schwab, Galka, Kana, and Friedenberg. Anyone else have ancestors from these villages?

[@bobam8927]

Interessant. Fühlt Ihr euch als Deutsche oder Amerikaner?

[@latitude1904]

@@bobam8927 I can answer that growing up in North Dakota, I have never felt American. I dislike this culture (who have all forgotten their roots) and wish I had moved to Germany when I was young.

[@ОльгаМин-п6е]

My family are Germans who still live in Russia. My ancestors are Volga Germans . There are many of us here.

[@Reinbold1500]

Proud German from Russia. My family settled in Strasburg ND. They spoke about the Feist family, my grandmother was a Feist. I cant remember how she was related to the family they spoke of.

[@H8MACHINE1]

Auch wenn die deutsche Kultur hier in dieser BRD von der Regierung ausgerottet wird bin ich froh, dass es auf dem Rest der Welt noch Deutsche gibt und diese wundervolle und wertvolle Kultur nicht sterben lassen.

[@drewg7036]

Did you see the Feist headstone in this video?

[@neospoilershow2708]

I am related to a Feist, from Straßburg as well but they came later on(late 1800s early 1900s)

[@thestreamoflife1124]

Excellent 👍👍 presentation. Perhaps you could do one about my people in Transylvania Rumania

[@vantasiaaway]

Maternal grandparents are Volga Deutsch and migrated from Dreispitz Russia and settled in NE Colorado and farmed sugar beets. We are of the Mueller and Meier clans.

[@WhiteArrow76]

37:00 More information on the Feist family who lost 6 children and a nephew in the 1898 diphtheria epidemic They were 6 of the 8 children of Michael and Aloysia Feist had at the time, and Aloysia was expecting another child that fall. The only survivors were their eldest daughter Elizabetha, who was 17 at the time, and their youngest son, 18 month old Mathias. The following November Aloysia gave birth to a daughter Barbara, named after one of her daughters who died. Another son Peter was born in 1902

[@crystalm4324]

My Dad’s family traces back through here and further back to Holland in the 1700’s (1640’s or so). They came to Canada through Russia. My Mom’s family came through Prussia, what is now Ukraine. Also back to 1700’s.

[@crystalm4324]

@A Tangerine it actually sits mostly on the same place in maps from the 1800’s as the Ukraine directly does right now. So......I don’t know what to say except - look at the maps!?!?

[@bajajuan2559]

Great historical video.... thank you !

[@bursucagrasa2152]

danke fur diese video

[@paulsdancing5429]

Thank you for very interesting history.

[@susankeyes3392]

Thank you

[@777Author]

Such a wonderful video! My father came from "Eigenfeld," a Lutheran German village in the Ukraine. I would love to know about that place.

[@christiebiscuts2340]

My grandfather his parents bro,s And sister immigrated from Russian from Germany a century before. They immigrated to Canada, ending in the Cypress Hills. His wife, my grandmother immigrated with her parents to North Dakota, her father was a baker. When they were w friends they spoke "High" Geŕman.