So what happens to the old house now? Now that it’s been re-occupied by a young couple Who love its oldness? The one now gone used to move about the house With such energy That the windows would rattle. They still rattle. The new owners’ dog Wouldn’t go into the living room. “It’s OK,” the […]
This article by Trudla Malinkowa (Gertrud Mahling) first appeared in Rozhlad, Lětnik 64, Fall 2014, pgs. 16-22 and then, with Peter Barker and Weldon Mersiovsky, and an introduction by David Zersen, in the Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, Volume 88, Number 3, Fall 2015, pg. 59-72. The Introduction is from the Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly. Introduction European
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Jan Kilian und die Auswanderung der sorbischen Lutheraner / Jan Kilian and the Emigration of the Sorbian Lutherans, written by Trudla Malinkowa (Gertrud Mahling) and translated by Jay Cram first appeared in: Eduard Ludwig Nollau Mission und Migration im 19. Jahrhundert. Eine Spurensuche / Eduard Ludwig Nollau: Searching for Traces of Migration and Mission in
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This article by Trudla Malinkowa (Gertrud Mahling) and translated by Gerald Stone was written for an information booklet, that was published in Bautzen, Germany, five times in the German language and one time, 2009, in English. The Wends (Sorbs) are the smallest Slavonic nation. They are descendants of the Slavonic tribes who around 600 A.D.
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This article about Jan Kilian, written by Trudla Malinkowa (Gertrud Mahling) and translated by Rachel Hildebrandt is a synopis of his life on the 200th anniversary of his birth. It first appeared in the January 2011 Newsletter of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society, Serbin, Texas. Pastor – Poet – Emigrant In Honor of the 200th
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Ths article by Trudla Malinkowa (Gertrud Mahling) was translated into English from the original German publication by Christine Greenthaner, Melbourne, Australia. Please click on the link below to take you to the article as it is posted on the Australian Wends website. http://becker-zwar.com/zwar/notable-people-events-and-places/christoph-samuel-daniel-schondorf-pastor-to-the-wendish-migrants-to-south-australia/ ]]>
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Johann August Miertsching was an internationally acclaimed explorer and missionary.The following article about him was written by Trudla Malinkowa (Gertrud Mahling) for the August 2017 edition of Pomhaj Boh. It was translated from Upper Sorbian/Wendish by Gerald Stone. Sites to Remind us of Jan Awgust Měrćink (John August Miertsching) in Lusatia. On the 200th birthday of
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I have been tracing my family for some years, including the Roggenbucks. (Roggenburk is a variant adopted by those Roggenbucks who emigrated to the Cleveland area.) My great grandfather Albert emigrated from Flötenstein, a small town three quarters of the way along a line from Berlin to Danzig, where many Roggenbucks lived. Flötenstein was in
This article by Nancy Goebel first appeared in Texas Highways in February 1985. The unincorporated little village of Serbin, nestled amid wooded environs along a winding farm-to-market road east of Austin, rarely appears on highway maps. So travelers whisk by, unaware that they’re passing through a unique ethnic region of Texas. Serbin is the heartland
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This article by Marguerite Johnston first appeared in the Houston Chronicle on Friday, 31 October 1966. Note: John Kilian’s grandson did not succeed him as pastor. Gerhard became the teacher. The road climbs and dips through pine woods from LaGrange toward Giddings, and the French mulberry bushes were royal purple in the sunshine. We paused in Warda
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