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VOLUME 1, No. 2 JANUARY 1997

"HAUNTING IMAGES OF GENOCIDE" Excerpts from an article which appeared in the Lincoln Journal/Star (11/4/96).

A memorial service was held on November 7, 1996 at 7:00 P.M. in the east chambers of the Nebraska State Capital Building to remember the genocide of more than one million German Russians who were forced to be deported by train to work and extermination camps. Mass starvation existed as well as systematic shootings of hundreds of German Russian people during this time. All of this happened in Russia, not Nazi Germany.

Samuel Sinner, a Lincoln chapter member, is researching the government sponsored genocide of German Russians that occurred between 1915-1955.

"The effects of the genocide were so far reaching that Sinner said he thinks every German Russian who fled to Lincoln and other United States Cities had at least one relative killed."

The date of the memorial is significant because Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized control of the Russian government on this date in 1917.' Research shows that Lenin and Stalin ordered the executions of many German Russians.

According to Sinner, thousands died of starvation while others died from bullets to the head or ropes around their necks in order to escape execution quotas ordered by Lenin.

The starvation ended in 1924 when Lenin died, but there wasn't much time to recover before Stalin took over and instituted his first Five Year Plan which called for the elimination of all German Russian privately owned farms.

cont.

"Although they weren't the only ethnic group that suffered under Lenin and Stalin, German Russians were hit hard because they had the best and largest farms," Sinner Said.

"Sometimes it haunts you in the night," said Samuel Sinner. "Even the children were executed: The way they died-they deserve to have their story told," he added.

"PARTIAL LIST OF VICTIMS OF STARVATION AND

STARVATION RELATED DISEASES" Huck, Volga

January to February 1922: 200+(1)

Fall 1921 - February 1922 (Partial list) (2)

Jacob Schuckmann

Oswald Hausch

Johann Wilhelm

Georg Michael

Johann Hixt Jr.

Philip Hein

Johann Hein (son of Philip)

Conrad Kindsvater, his wife and daughter-in-law

Barbara Kindsvater (wife of Georg Kindsvater)

Christina ....

Jacob Brotzmann

Georg Brotzmann

Oswald Frick

Georg Luther

Elisabetha Eckerdt

Wife of Jacob ....

Anna Margareta Hempel

Johannes Kohler

1: Die Welt Post (Omaha/Lincoln NE) May 25, 19

2: Ibid and Die Welt Post, May 18, 1922

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