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Bertha Schlegel discusses growing up in Loma, Colorado and helping her family raise beets for Holly Sugar, and making sauerkraut, pickled apples, pickled watermelon and other ethnic food with her mother, who was a German immigrant from Russia. She also remembers her education and school activities throughout her childhood, including field days at the Fruita Central School and Grand Junction High School. She talks about obtaining a teaching degree,...
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Marie Spomer describes her younger years living in a German settlement in Russia, including homemaking tasks and funeral ceremonies. Marie also recalls what it was like moving to America, the jobs she took on after leaving school, meeting her husband, and moving to Mesa County to work on a sugar beet farm. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado....
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Earl Land talks about the arrival of his German parents in the United States, their lives in Russia prior to relocating, and their lives in the United States after immigrating. He recalls his early life in Colorado and the West and his education as a mining engineer. He remembers his service as a 2nd Lieutenant in an aviation engineer battalion in the US Army during World War II. He speaks in general about the history of Germans from Russia in the...
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Edward Schultz talks about his childhood in a German settlement in Russia and the family’s subsequent flight from the country in the face of persecution against Germans. He remembers immigrant and family life in a German community in Kansas, where they settled after immigrating to the United States. He discusses his brief career as a machinist for the railroad in Kansas. He recalls leaving home at sixteen and meeting his future wife in Mack, Colorado,...
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Roy Schumann speaks about the history of his German ancestors in Russia, about the immigration of his parents from Russia to Colorado, and their marriage and move to the Western Slope. He describes the life of German people living in Russia in the early Twentieth century. He talks about the food and traditions of his family and other German Americans. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County...
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Alex Bauer talks extensively about this history of his family, part of the German community of Morganthau in Russia. He recounts their immigration to the United States in the years before the Russian Revolution. He remembers his dad’s career as a machinist for Missouri Pacific Railroad and then the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. He also recounts his own career as a machinist. He speaks about his parrallel career as the shop steward International...