Stories

Stories are a window and connection into our past and also provide insights that help us understand the present and future.

A list of stories about the colony of Norka and the people who lived there is shown in sidebar on the right side of this page.

Please contribute your stories about Norka to help preserve the memory of our ancestors and the place they called home.

A page from the book Wolgadeutsche Volkslieder (Volga German Folk Songs) by Georg Dinges, published 1932 in Berlin. 

A Most Unusual Discovery by Joanne Krieger

Interviews with Henry Krieger - MP3 audio

Interview with Rachel Oswald (nee George) - MP3 audio

Colorado State University Interviews - MP3 audio

Interview with Christine Lehl - MP3 audio

Memoirs of Johann-Georg Schleuning

Immigration, The American West, and the Twentieth Century: German From Russia, Omaha Indian, and Vietnamese-Urban Villagers in Lincoln, Nebraska by Kurt Kinbacher, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Recollections of Alice Bernice (Deering) Davison about her father John Deering (born Johannes Döring), his family, and his life in Norka, Russia

Emma Urbach Memories

The Fate of a Schreiber Family from Norka

The Story of the Alexander Schreiber Family from Norka

The Last Germans in Norka

Little Russia in Portland, Oregon

Recollections of Ellen Johnson Bauer

German Pioneer: Johannes Schleuning 1879-1962 (German language article)

Successful Research: "Like Finding A Needle In A Haystack" by Rachel (Krieger) Holmes 

Jacob Klaus by Lois Klaus

Memories of Norka by Conrad Brill

Story of Konrädchen by Roy Conrad Derring

Autobiography of Jacob Miller

John and Katrinka Sauer

Memories by Catheine Bauer

Biography of My Father, Alexander Schreiber by Marie Schreiber Baker

A History of the Henry Krieger Family in Norka, Russia by Amelia Werre

A Tribute to Grandma Weitzel by Marven Weitzel

Remembering Grandpa by Marven Weitzel

A History of the Johann Helzer Family

The Yost Family Names by Virginia Less

Helzers of Norka by Ellen Campbell

The Dick Family from Norka to North Dakota

Titanic by Rick Wacker

The Green Family Tree by Sally Braich

My Remembrance of Grandpa Pfenning

Military Service by Joanne Krieger

Read interviews of Norka immigrants to the United States from Norka at the Library of Congress American Life Histories website.  Search for interviews with Henry Hahn, Elizabeth Kildow, Catherine Bauer, Henry Schwindt, and Margaret Sauer.  Their place of birth is shown as "Norgia, Russia".