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INDEX to "Conversations with the Elders"
Family Histories of Survivors
of Stalin's Labor Camps
mostly in the Parish of the
Immaculate Conception
of the Holy Virgin Mary,
Chelyabinsk, Russia
© Copyright 1997 Congregatiuon of the Sisters of St. Agnes, Fond du Lac,
Wisconsin and FEEFHS, all rights reserved
Latest Update: 14 May 1997 (Conversations #13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 posted)
Family Histories of the following older parishioners and friends
of Immaculate Conception
Parish in Chelyabinsk, Southern Urals district, Russia, and its
mission parishes are being
recorded in a series of "Conversations" by Sister Alice Ann
Pfeifer with Sister Mary Elise Leiker, her interpreter and
interviewer. All unique words
(including proper names) in these articles are indexed via the Full
Text Index of the entire FEEFHS Web Site
1. Frederick STAAB (born 1918) of
Chelyabinsk (a Lutheran friend)
2. Helena KRUG (born 1909) of
Chelyabinsk
3. Josefina SCHLIJ HERRSPIEGEL (born
1912), formerly of Chelyabinsk, now Germany
4. August EXSNER (born 1909) and his wife
Elizabeth LEIKER Exsner (born circa 1913) of Korkina
5. Katya SEIB (born 1923) of
Chelyabinsk
6. Herman PAPENFUSS (born 1932) and his
wife Albina YOUNGER Papenfuss (born 1931) of Chelyabinsk
7. Clara GREILICH BRAUN (born 1911) of
Chelyabinsk
8. Helena WEIGEL MERZ (born 1922) of
Chelyabinsk
9. Frederick GOERTMANN (born 1922) and his
wife Agatha MARE Goertman (born 1924) of Chelyabinsk
10. Maria HAVERKAND LANG (born 1936)
of Chelyabinsk
11. Agatha ALBERT MOOR (born 1933) of
Kopeysk
12. Ilse WIENS WEBER (born 1939),
formerly of Chelyabinsk, now Germany
Appendix A: An additional conversation was written by Sr. Lucy Ann
Wasinger, C.S.A.:
Appendix AA: Konstantine WASINGER (born 1913)
and his wife Josefina of Kopeysk
13. Lydia ACKERMAN KUHN (born 1924) of
Chelyabinsk
14. Ekaterina RISCH STARIKOVA (born 1923)
15. Johannes STAMM (born 1934) and his wife Agnes
WAGNER STAMM (born 1929)
16. Therese GROSS HERMAN (born 1915)
17. Monica SCHAEFER HARMEL (born 1936)
About the Conversations and Their
Authors
Sister Alice Ann Pfeifer (born 1953), a member of the
Congregation of St. Agnes (C.S.A.)
and a 1971 graduate of Thomas More Prep-Marian in Hays, Kansas,
U.S.A., was part of the
exploratory team sent in May of 1993 to gather information on a
possible mission of the
Agnesians to Russia.
When she returned on mission to Chelyabinsk in August, 1995, her
arrival brought the
number of Agnesian Sisters in Siberia to five - four of them from
Ellis County, Kansas.
Sister returned to the U.S. in February, 1996, and returned to
Chelyabinsk in August of
1996.
While spending most of her time in Russian-language study, Sister
also began recording the
tragic stories of various ethnic-German exiles in Chelyabinsk - a
subject which should be of
interest to the many descendants and friends of Germans from
Russia who settled in the U.S.,
Canada, and southern South America in the half century between
1874 and 1924.
Sister wrote the first four articles in this series prior to
returning to the U.S. in February,
1996, and the rest since her return to Siberia in August of
1996.
Sister is the daughter of Ida Schaffer Pfeifer (born 1922) of
Liebenthal, Kansas, and the late
Albert Frank Pfeifer (1920-1974). Her grandparents - George
Pfeifer (1886-1955), Rose
Herrman Pfeifer (1891-1956), Alex Schaffer (1896-1976) and
Rosalia Legleiter Schaffer
(1901-1967) - were all born in the U.S. Many of her great
grandparents, however, were
brought to the U.S. by their parents from Russia's Volga River
Valley in the 1870s.
[All bracketed material in these Conversations are editorial
notes by Fr. Blaine Burkey,
O.F.M.Cap.]
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