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Publishes the Atlas of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1892 which contains
reproductions of 13 maps published in 1892. There are separate maps with
town-name indexes of the following areas: Austria-Hungary; Upper Austria;
Lower Austria; Salzburg; Styria; Carinthia; Carniola and Istria; Tyrol;
Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia; Hungary, Galicia, and Bukovina; and
maps of Vienna (2) and Budapest. Small towns and hamlets are not on the
maps. There is a general town-name index (18 pp) for all maps. Spiral binding,
17" x 11". 80 pp, $17.75
This is probably the most prolific genealogical publisher in Germany.
- Genealogical Guide to German Ancestors from East Germany and
Eastern Europe, edited by the
AGoFF
(D) and translated by Joachim O.R. Nuthack and Adalbert Goertz, 1984.
Apparently a second edition has been published since the reunification
of Germany. Following is the German edition of this work.
- Wegweiser für Forschungen nach Vorfahren aus den ostdeutschen
und sudetendeutschen Gebieten sowie aus den deutschen Siedlungsraumen
in Mittel-, Ost- und Sudosteuropa, edited by Arbeitsgemeinschaft
ostdeutscher Familienforscher (AGoFF) Neustadt a. d. Aisch, Verlag
Degener 1995, ISBN 3-7686-1050-X 1995
- Bestandsverzeichnis der Deutschen Zentralstelle für Genealogie
Leipzig, Teil II - Inventory of the Church Records, available
(microfilm) at the German genealogical central institute, Leipzig, Part
II: East and South East Europe Ed. by Deutsche Zentralstelle... Neustadt
a. d. Aisch: Verlag Degener 1994 ISBN 3-7686-2065-4 (both German and
English)
- Ratgeber Familienforschung Mittel- und Osteuropa [Guide
to Family History in Middle and Eastern Europe] edited by Irina
and Rainer Zielke. 220 pages, published 1995, Hardcover (ISBN 3-7686-1049-7)
price: DM 39,80
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Among others, offers the book Central European Genealogical Terminology
which deciphers the more common genealogical terms (including church records)
from German, Latin, French and Hungarian, into English. With shipping,
it costs US$14.50.
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This publisher offers
(AUS002) Atlas of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1892. This atlas
contains reproductions of 13 maps published in 1892 by Verlag des Bibliographischen
Instituts. There are separate maps with town-name indexes of the following
areas: Austria-Hungary; Upper Austria; Lower Austria; Salzburg; Styria;
Carinthia; Carniola and Istria; Tyrol; Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia;
Hungary, Galicia, and Bukovina; and maps of Vienna (2) and Budapest. Small
towns and hamlets are not on the maps. There is a general town-name index
(18 pp) for all maps. Spiral binding, 17" x 11". 80 pp 17.75
Maps from 1:2000000 down to 1:75000 scale are also offered.
Toll-free order line: 1-800-666-4363. Have VISA or MC number and expiration
date ready.
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The biggest single source in North America for books on the Danube Swabians.
Publishers of Heimatbote, "a monthly newspaper of the Danube Swabians
in Canada and the U.S.A" and distributors for approximately 40 books dealing
with Danube Swabian history and culture; many deal with the events of 1944-48.
Among the publications available:
- Banat Germans, The, Nikolaus Engelmann, translated from the
German by John Michels, 136 pages. An excellent overview of Banat
customs and history. Most of the book covers the portion of the Banat
currently in Romania, but the customs and historical flavor apply to
Danube Swabians in general.
- Danube Swabians in the Pannonian Basin, The, a new German ethnic
group, Anton Tafferner, Josef Schmidt and Josef Volkmar Senz,
translated by Dr. Josef Hahn, 24 pages.
- Deutschen in Syrmien, Slawonien, Kroatien und Bosnien, Die,
Geschichte einer deutschen Volksgruppe in Südosteuropa, Valentin
Oberkersch, over 400 pages with many illustrations.
- Innocent Must Pay, The, Tenz. $17 U.S.
- In the Claw of the Red Dragon, Fr. Wendelin Gruber. $15 U.S.
- Leidensweg der Deutschen im kommunistischen Jugoslawien, Band
I, Ortsberichte über die Verbrechen an den Deutschen durch das
Tito-Regime in der Zeit von 1944-1948, DS Kulturstiftung, 958 pages.
- Leidensweg der Deutschen im kommunistischen Jugoslawien, Band
II, Erlebnisberichte über die Verbrechen an den Deutschen durch
das Tito-Regime in der Zeit von 1944-1948, Kart., 1032 pages.
- Leidensweg der Deutschen im kommunistischen Jugoslawien, Band
III, Erlebnisberichte über die Verbrechen an den Deutschen durch
das Tito-Regime in der Zeit von 1944-1948
- Leidensweg der Deutschen im kommunistischen Jugoslawien, Band
IV, Erlebnisberichte über die Verbrechen an den Deutschen durch
das Tito-Regime in der Zeit von 1944-1948
[Leidensweg Der Deutschen Im Kommunistischen Jugoslawien]
This series, written in German, documents the treatment of the Donauschwaben
by Tito's Partisans from the closing days of World War II. Volume 4
is a list of the names of the approximately 69,000 Donauschwaben victims
of the war, detention/expulsion camps, and shipment to the Soviet Union
as war reparation/slave labor. This book is intended as a memorial
to the victims, but is also useful as a genealogical source. Names
are listed by village in the various regional sections. However, this
book and the other volumes of this series are concerned only with the
Donauschwaben in Yugoslavia in the 1940's and early 1950's.
- Terrible Vengeance, A, Zayas. $15 U.S.
- Whip My Homecoming, The, Müller. $13 U.S.
- "The Extermination of a People." [8 page brochure.]
- Wappen der Donauschwaben. Vierfarbig. Breite 23X30 cm (8 1/2 x 11
3/4 in.) [4-color Donauschwaben coat of arms]
Write/call or fax to
1 Lyme Regis Cres.
Scarborough, ON
M1M 1E3a
CANADA
(416)267-8425
FAX:(416)261-5040
Add 15% to cover postage & handling.
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Pantzergasse 30/8
A-1190 Vienna
Austria
Tel = +43 1 369 97 29
Fax = +43 1 369 97 30
Email: IHFF@netway.at
Publications available:
- Comprehensive Index of Roman Catholic marriages in Vienna - in 3 parts
- Comprehensive Index of military marriages in Vienna 1775-1860
- Dictionary of Bohemian parishes in the Czech Republic
- Dictionary of Moravian parishes in the Czech Republic
- Gazetteer of the former Galicia & Bukowina
- Genealogical Dictionary
- Records of "EXULANTEN" (Protestants persecuted for their religious
beliefs) deposited in Preßburg (Bratislava, Slovak Republic)
- Register of vital statistics in the Czech State Archives pertaining
to Bohemia - in 2 parts
- Register of vital statistics in the Czech State Archives pertaining
to Moravia - in 2 parts
- Register of Jewish vital statistics in Czech State Archives pertaining
to Bohemia
- Register of Jewish vital statistics in Czech State Archives pertaining
to Moravia
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Offers the book Quellenbuch zur Donauschwäbischen Geschichte
, part 3, [Sourcebook for Donauschwaben History] Anton Tafferner, Stuttgart
1978, ISBN 3-921005-24-8. [Search the index to the
contents
of this work.]
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Publishes on behalf of the East German Office of the Culture Ministry
(editor Prof. Dr. Wilfried Schlau) a 12-volume study series on the history
and development of all German settlement areas in Eastern Europe and the
Balkans, up to the present-day:
- Die Sudetendeutschen
- Die Rußlanddeutschen
- Die Deutschen im Posener Land und Mittelpolen
- Die Deutschen zwischen Karpaten und Krain
- Die Donauschwaben
- Die Deutschbalten
- Schlesien und die Schlesier
- Siebenbürgen und die Siebenbürger Sachsen
- Ostpommern und Ostbrandenburg - Land und Leute
- Die deutschen Umsiedler aus Ostpolen und Rumänien sowie
die Deutschen in der Karpato-Ukraine
- Ost- und Westpreußen - Land und Leute
- Die Ostdeutschen - eine dokumentarische Bilanz 1945-1995
Verlag Langen Müller
Thomas-Wimmer-Ring 11, 80539 München
Germany
Tel.: 089-290880
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The "Austria Society" publishes the small books known as "Eckartschriften"
which treat short topics on Eastern Europe and the Balkans, for example:
- Eisfeld, A.: Die Deutschen in Rußland und in der Sowjetunion,
Eckartschriften Heft 97
- Hauler, Ernst: Sathmar und seine Schwaben, Eckartschriften
Heft 102, 1987
- Pitsch, Erwin: Türkenkrieg 1683, Eckartschriften Heft
86, 1983
- Senz, JV: Die Deutschen im Batscherland, Eckartschriften Heft
89
- Springenschmid, Karl: Janitscharen?, Eckartschriften Heft
65
- Stolz, Matthias: Das große Feuer, Geschichte eines deutschen
Dorfes in Ostslawonien, Eckartschriften Heft 87, 1983
- Tautorat, Hans-Georg: Ostpreußen, Eckartschriften Heft
103, 1987
Address:
Österr. Landsmannschaft
Fuhrmannsgasse 18a, A-1080 Wien
Austria
Tel.: +43-1-482273
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Offers the book Barefoot in the Rubble by Elizabeth B Walter.
Describes life as a child in the Yugoslavian detention camps of Marshal
Tito at the end of world war II, escape from Yugoslavia and her flight
through Hungary and Austria to Munich Germany where the family was reunited
with the father who had just returned from a Russian slave labor camp.
US $28.00 includes shipping and handling.
P. O. Box 1062
Palatine, Illinois 60078-1062
USA
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Freilassing/Bayern
Germany
This publisher no longer produces books on the Donauschwaben. Some of
its publications included:
- Fata Morgana (Gedichte eines Donauschwaben)
- Lerche der Banater Heide, by Johann Szimits (Gedichte)
- Peter Palm und sein Banat, by Lotte Wilhelm (Roman)
- Die verlorenen Söhne: 42 Ungarn deutscher Abstammung (1805
bis 1899), by Johann Weidlein
- Siedlungskarte des Banats: Verwaltungsstand vor 1941
; Massstab 1:500,000
- Sonntäglicher Kirchgang (Farbiger Kunstdruck nach
einem Aquarell von Stefan Jäger), ca. 36 x 29 cm
- Donauschwäbische Ortsgeschichten: Pardan
- Landkarten im Massstab 1:100,000: Srediste, Kanjiza/Senta
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This genealogical publisher offers the Deutsche Geschlechterbuch,
of which since 1889 over 200 volumes have appeared. It is a sourcebook
on German lineage. Several volumes also pertain to historical lineage in
East Germany. Many others list works about Germans in the Baltic States.
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Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk
Leo-Graetz Str. 1
D-81379 Munich
Germany
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for more details about publications, see Donauschwaben Literature
(E)
This is the original source for the Leidensweg series of books which comes
in 4 volumes:
Leidensweg der Deutschen im kommunistischen Jugoslawien
- Band I, Ortsberichte über die Verbrechen an den Deutschen
durch das Tito-Regime in der Zeit von 1944-1948, DS Kulturstiftung,
958 pages.
- Band II, Erlebnisberichte über die Verbrechen an den
Deutschen durch das Tito-Regime in der Zeit von 1944-1948, Kart.,
1032 pages.
- Band III, Erlebnisberichte über die Verbrechen an den
Deutschen durch das Tito-Regime in der Zeit von 1944-1948
- Band IV, Erlebnisberichte über die Verbrechen an den
Deutschen durch das Tito-Regime in der Zeit von 1944-1948
Other references include Geschichte der Donauschwaben by Josef
Volkmar Senz. This book includes addresses for over 20 Donauschwaben organizations.
Several of these put out their own newsletters/newspapers including:
- Mitteilungen für Donauschwaben is from the Landsmannschaft
der Donauschwaben aus Jugoslawien
- Unsere Post is from the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen
aus Ungarn,
- Banater Post is from the
Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben aus Rumänien in Deutschland
e.V.
[Society of Banat Swabians from Romania]
- Sathmarer Heimatbrief is from the Landsmannschaft der
Sathmarer Schwaben
A bibliography includes a list of further bibliographies, some of which
include lists of "Heimatbücher" and "Ortsgeschichten".
Write to
Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung e.V.
Geschäftstelle
Goldmühlstrasse 30
D-71605 Sindelfingen
GERMANY
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Banat-Topola's Schwaben: 1791-1945 (1992) 8-1/2 x 11, 154 pp.
$19.95 Bilingual opus (German & English) Treatise concerning developments
in a bilingual Austro-Hungarian village, until its ethnic-German inhabitants
were evicted and confined to forced labor camps by Yugoslav partisans under
Tito's communist leadership. ISBN 0-9615505-3-2
Profile of an Americanized Danube Swabian Ethnically Cleansed under
Tito (2001). A memoir conveying factual insights regarding group background,
characteristic positive contributions to society, family lineage, plus European
and American social aspects during the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Ample details vitalize the narratives. Abundant references render leads
for further inquiry. ISBN 0-9615505-4-6, 283 pp. 5.5x 8.5 inches, illus.
$29.95 Paperback.
Tracing Romania's Heterogeneous German Minority from Its Origins to
the Diaspora. (1985) 8-1/2 x 11, 61 pp. $4.95 Facilitates orientation
in genealogical research. ISBN 0-9615505-1-1. Out of print.
To order or write for availability, send to
Jacob Steigerwald Translation and Interpretation Services
5960 S. Estes Street, Littleton, CO 80123-8605, USA
Shipping is included with prepaid orders. Residents of Colorado should
add 4.8% sales tax.
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This is the publisher of the weekly newspaper Der Donauschwabe
, the book Das Banat by Helmut Schneider, and some of Werner
Hacker's books on emigration from certain parts of Germany. The newspaper
often includes book reviews and mentions publications of Heimatbücher
by the various associations of former residents, commonly known as HOGs,
for HeimatOrtsGemeinschaft.
Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH & Co.
Bahnhofstrasse
65 D-7080 Aalen
Germany
Write the newspaper at
Der Donauschwabe
Postfach 16 80
73406 Aalen
GERMANY
Editorial Office Phone: 0 73 61 / 5 94-3 95
fax: 0 73 61 / 5 94-1 61
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Publisher of the magazine Das Donautal, appearing bi-monthly. The
magazine includes special sections on numerous towns, some appearing more
regularly than others, including Banat Brestowatz, Banovce, Batsch Brestowatz,
Betschkerek, Elek, Ernsthausen Ferdinandsberg, Franzfeld, Hatzfeld, Karansebesch,
Karlsdorf, Kikinda, Kubin, Liebling, Miletitsch, Mramorak, Pantschowa, Ploschitz,
Stefansfeld, Szekely, Tschawal/Csavoly and Wojlowiza.
This publisher has also published several books on the history and culture
of the Danube Swabians, from Heimatbücher to personal histories to
references on the works of Stefan Jäger and Adam Müller Guttenbrunn.
Write to
Oswald Hartmann Verlag
Breslauer Str. 36
D-74372 Sersheim
Germany
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for more details see: regional
publishers
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Dieser Verlag brachte einige Nachdrucke seltener Bücher zum Thema
Galizien, das vergessene Königreich, unter anderen:
- Author unknown: Orts-Repertorium des Königreichs Galizien
und Lodomerien, Wien 1874
- Schneider: Das Kolonisationswerk Kaiser Josefs II. in Galizien
/ Darstellung und Namenslisten, Leipzig 1939
- Seefeldt: Quellenbuch zur deutschen Ansiedlung in Galizien unter
Josef II., Plauen 1935
- Wilhelm/Kallbrunner: Quellen zur deutschen Siedlungsgeschichte
in Osteuropa, München 1936 (Dieses Werk verzeichnet insbesondere
donauschwäbische, aber auch galizische Kolonisten)
Adresse:
Verlag Helmut Scherer
Boothstr. 21a, 12207 Berlin
Germany
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