German Community: Pianist to donate concert proceeds to Tarahumaras
El Paso Times Help is on the way for the Tarahumara Indian children of southwestern Chihuahua, thanks to the efforts of Carola Riedner and her husband, Gunter Riedner, Protestant chaplain of the German Air Force at Fort Bliss.A benefit reception and concert to help the Tarahumara Children's Hospital in Estacion Creel, a mountain town in southwestern Chihuahua, will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Fort Bliss German Community Center, Robert Lee Road, with food, beverages and...
German Community: HANGING OF WOMAN FOR INFANTICIDE CAUSED A MIXED LOCAL REACTION
In 1809, the public execution of a woman convicted of infanticide made an emotional impact on the region's Pennsylvania German community.Using reports from newspapers of the time, author Wayne E. Homan described the day of the hanging in ``The Sorrow Song of Susanna Cox,'' published in the now-defunct magazine Pennsylvania Folklife in summer 1972. Stories similar to hers, which was also gleaned from a 1901 article in Transactions, the journal of the...
German Community: Bonn Hopes Transylvania Kin Will Stay Put
THEY settled in Transylvania 800 years ago and prospered for centuries. But since World War II, life for ethnic Germans in Romania has been rough. Though not expelled en masse - as were their ethnic cousins elsewhere in Europe - the Romanian Saxons suffered for their blood ties to Nazi Germany. After the war, tens of thousands were sent to labor camps within Romania and in the Soviet Union. Those not condemned to hard labor still saw centuries of cultural tradition and prosperity evaporate...
German Community: Polish News Bulletin: The Post-Brussels Hangover and the Clear Collapse in Polish-German Relations Are Opportunity for Poland to Rethink Its Policies
The following is a summary of an article, featured in a recent issue of Polityka, by Adam Krzeminski, one of Poland's leading commentators on German affairs.It seems, writes Krzeminski, that with a single signature under the "letter of eight" (supporting the US invasion of Iraq), Leszek Miller destroyed the Polish-German community of interests that was the foundation of Poland's European policy in the 90s. Poland's support for...