Omi: Mother CourageThis is the remarkable story of Hertha Jurgens Schmidt, who was born in northern Germany in 1910. She grew up during the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, marrying August Wilhelm Schmidt in 1932. Hertha bore eight children as she and her family witnessed the rise of the Nazis, suffered the deprivations brought on by WWII, and managed to escape the fury of the Soviet advance through eastern Germany in 1945. Read of her daring dash across the city

who built a hiding place in his barn to hide Anabaptists including Peter Habhegger who lived at nearby Schwartzentrub

The earliest arrival from this village appears to be Johann Nicolaus Crussman who arrived in 1718

This family history not only traces the descendants of 1750 Bishop Jacob Mast (1738-1808) of Berks Co

Jacob finds his beliefs about love and nonresistance severely tested

This book is the result of more than 30 years of research in an attempt to answer these questions

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1915) and had 4 children: Henry A

Eash (1864-1945) and Susan J

Nathaniel Martin (1841-1923) married Maria M

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This encyclopedia of Oberholtzer/Overholser/Overholt immigrants' families and the first four or five generations of most

before moving to Dodge City