Banat Specific Resources
Village & Regional
For Specific Village Information (See: Villages)
Genealogy
Genealogical Digs: discovering our ancestral roots!
Dennis J. Bauer’s Genealogical Banat Book Collection (Personal Collection)
Banat History
Banat Villages with German Inhabitants Church name – map keys
The End of the German Banat Villages – The Anton Bedoe Zollner Series
Serbian Banat Villages with German Inhabitants
Books and Media
Donauschwäbische Volkskalender (Donauschwaben kalender)
Banat Book List (Specific to Banat)
Neue Banater Bücherei by Anton-Peter Petri, 1982-1992 (New Banat Library Series Index)
Romania Banat (Banater Associations & Local Archives information)
Media & Newspaper Sources (Publications, video)
Neue Banater Bücherei by Anton-Peter Petri, 1982-1992
(New Banat Library Series Index)
Postcards from the past (villages)
Banat Slide Show, submitted by Nick Tullius, 2014-Mar-16
Das Banat im Jahre 1971 (Driving Video – A journey through the Banat with the Bavarian Radio. A very nice contribution is to remember but also suitable for getting to know the Banat.)
Sackelhauser Musikanten: Banater Ländler (Banat musicians)
Sackelhauser Musikanten: Banater Ländler (Banat musicians)
Heimattag 2012 – National Show date – Baden-Wuerttemberg – 26th May 2012 – SWR television – Heimattag 2012 – Country team in the Banat Swabians eV under the motto “Banat Swabians – Future with Tradition”
Banat Reference Books (Published resources relating to Villages & Family Research)
Romania Banat (Banater Associations & Local Archives)
Media & Newspaper Sources (Publications, video)
Das Banat im Jahre 1971 (Driving Video – A journey through the Banat with the Bavarian Radio. A very nice contribution is to remember but also suitable for getting to know the Banat.)
Stories & Articles
1924 Donauschwäbischer Volkskalender ‘Our Danube Swabian Banat Villages Have Their Own Character’ by Prof. Nischbach
1950, Remember Where You Came From by Alex Leeb
Journey Into The Unknown “1983”by Anton Bedoe Zollner
1971, Journey from Alexanderhausen to Ottawa ‘Sketch of a memoir’by Nick Tullius
1904 – Excerpts from a Banaters life & village as a child & young women by Laurie Ackermann Boyett
How that hat got on top of the church by Nick Tullius
Danube Swabian Easter Customs by Jacob Steigerwald
Threshing machines, steam engines and tractors by Nick Tullius
Profile of an Americanized Danube Swabian Ethnically Cleansed under Tito by Jacob Steigerwald
Life of a Schwob “A farmer’s daily life in the village” by Alex Leeb
“Ratschen” Holy Week in Banat (My Personal Recollection) by Nick Tullius
Rosemary in the Life of the Danube Swabians by Hans Gehl
100th Year Banater Swabian in Austria 1907-2007 by Hans Dama
Banat Swabians, Danube Swabians & Their Future by Hans Dama & Hans Gehl
The Danube Swabians …as seen in Claudio Magris’ Book “Danube” Reviewed by Nick Tullius
An Englishman Travels the Banat (mid-1800s) by John Paget
On the Trails of Our Ancestors by Anton Zollner
1912 – Destitute to America – Experiences by Kurt Aram
1934, Emigrating to America by Magdalena Jorch Dian
Fare Dodger by Hans Dama
My Escape From Romania by Herwig Stefan
Life in our new Heimat by Helene Schuch
Memories of Our Resettlement by Helene Schuch
My journey from the Banat to Canada by Nick Tullius
Review by Hans Gehl | Review by Jody McKim Pharr
Villages Lorrains En Roumanie by André Rosambert – L’Illustration (French Magazine), Part 1: 01 Apr 1933
Villages Lorrains En Roumanie by André Rosambert – L’Illustration (French Magazine), Part 2: 24 Nov 1934
The Shadow of Herta Müller at the Nitzkydorf Cemetery
by Viorel Ilişoi,(From the day they announced on television that the German writer Herta Müller received the Nobel Prize for Literature and it was recalled that she was born and raised in Romania, many people in her native village are asking themselves what is the Nobel Prize and who is this Herta Müller? And if she is a villager of theirs and won one million Euros, what is in it for them? Herta Müller is an unknown in Nitzkydorf, the village she put on the worldwide map in a single day.)
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